GOP tussles with Biden as gas prices soar

The Ukraine crisis, President Biden’s ban on Russian oil and gas imports and the soaring price of gas are coalescing into one red-hot political issue.

For Republicans, the electoral benefit to be gleaned from holding Biden to blame for rising prices at the pump is plain.

But Biden and Democrats shoot back that much of the GOP criticism is disingenuous — or, as the president himself put it on Tuesday, “simply not true.”