2024 presidential candidates on inflation

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This page includes statements from the 2024 presidential candidates on inflation. These statements were compiled from each candidate's official campaign website, editorials, speeches, and debates.

The candidates featured on this page were the noteworthy Democratic and Republican candidates in the 2024 presidential election. Only candidates who addressed this page's issue on their campaign website, in public statements, or in public speeches have a quote featured on this page. See something we missed? Email us. The active noteworthy presidential candidates as of November 5, 2025, were:

Kamala Harris (D)
Donald Trump (R)
Chase Oliver (L)
Jill Stein (G)

Inflation

Democratic candidates

Kamala D. Harris

During a campaign speech Harris said, "Yes, it is true that by many indicators, our economy is the strongest in the world but while inflation is down and wages are up, prices are still too high. You know it, and I know it. And when we win this election, here’s what we’re going to do about it. On day one, I will take on price gouging and bring down costs. We will ban more of those hidden fees and surprise late charges that banks and other companies use to pad their profits. We will take on corporate landlords and cap unfair rent increases. And we will take on Big Pharma to cap prescription drug costs for all Americans. Our plan will lower costs and save many middle-class families thousands of dollars a year." ^{[source, as of 2024-07-30]}

Republican candidates

Ron DeSantis

DeSantis' campaign website said, "DeSantis will advance an ambitious tax and regulatory reform agenda to unleash American production, increase productivity and growth, and support our families, workers, and small businesses while lowering inflation." ^{[source, as of 2023-12-19]}

Nikki Haley

In an op-ed Haley wrote, "We must be honest: Both Democrats and Republicans are responsible for America’s spending crisis. They have both supported multitrillion dollar deficits that have brought us to a $31.6 trillion national debt and counting. The nonstop spending binge of the past three years also gave us the soaring inflation that’s still squeezing families and an economy that’s stumbling toward recession. We need a president who will do what no one has done to date: Stand up to the big spenders in both parties." ^{[source, as of 2023-03-07]}

Asa Hutchinson

In his campaign annoucement, Hutchinson said, "The Biden Administration has turned its back on the American worker. To turn our economy around we have to stop the 'break-the-bank' federal spending that has led to high inflation and rising interest rates. Every hardworking American family gets a double hit from the Biden economy. Their paycheck doesn’t go as far, and they are paying more on car loans and credit card debt because of the high-interest rates." ^{[source, as of 2023-04-02]}

Vivek Ramaswamy

Ramaswamy's campaign website listed the following policy, "Limit the U.S. Fed’s scope: stabilize the dollar & nothing more." ^{[source, as of 2023-12-21]}

Donald Trump

Trump's campaign website said, “When I'm back in the White House, I will immediately unleash energy production, slash regulations, like I did just three years ago, and repeal Biden's tax hikes to get inflation down as fast as possible, and it will go quickly, so that interest rates can get back under control. I built the greatest economy in the history of the world.” ^{[source, as of 2023-12-21]}