he spent another trillion dollars on infrastructure. re the highest inflation rate we have seen in decades. this morning america seems trapped in a vortex of bad o economic news skyf high food prices, pump prices, record 1 levels, soaring rents up 16% in one year. covid lockdown s in china,uf the world s manufacturing center choking global supply chain.chai u.s. corporate profits sinking russianns oil under partial embargo. ukrainian wheat exports at a standstill and all of it feeding 40 year high inflation that americans are payinggh forr every day. so ifnd you re wondering how all of this joe biden surprise, considersu who s suffering the most here. the people hit hardest by joe biden s economic policies aren t in urban areas like san francisco or new york , which blue .arly joe biden s base isn t bearing the brunt of this . his bubble is sufficientlysu insulated know the people suffering the mostt areea
democracy but has since become less than that. you tweeted. i hear from gop base voters every day, tucker carlson making the place for autocracy over democracy and while you and i are disgusted by this, the gop base isn t. i truly want to believe you re not right about that, but you speak to more republicans on a daily basis than i do. ali, specifically i speak to hundreds and thousands of gop base voters. the most committed energetic voters every day. they had no problem with donald trump acting like a strong man for four years. most of the country, when you really think about what tucker carlson did this week, he was over in hungary bashing our democracy for an autocrat. that disgusts you and me but from hearing gop voters, they re
they show up to rally after rally after rally which starts to get to your question of why did trump supporters continue to stick with him and after january 6th, why they continue to show up for rallies? there was thousands of people in cleveland, thousands of people in sarasota just last month. but of course, trump s base isn t enough to win, so the broader question is, why people who know what he is, who know what he s done still stand with him. rachael, michael, thank you both so much. coming up, hunter biden, businessman, author, now he s an artist, why the president s son s new venture is raising eyebrows and ire and a whole lot of ethics questions, again.
lot of things. if he says he is for something people will march in line behind him. we know that because we ve seen it in the past. but the president s base isn t going anywhere and 97% of the country is for background checks. it s not just democrats who want them. the nation does. sure. but democrats and the nation wanted them after the last dozen shootings and we haven t seen anything happen after that. so the missing piece here if what you say is true, which it is, polls shogun control as being high, very popular around the country, so the missing piece is republicans supporting it. that would appear to be the missing piece. the person that can get republican lawmakers, the people who have the voting cards, galvanized around this is the president. i want to just remind everybody, barack obama went around the country campaigning for gun control during his presidency and said it was his top priority, was unable to get it done. why? because the republicans were worried. the diffe
they re not they have not pushed back since charlottesville, so what incentive does he have to change his behavior? i don t think the polls reflect that. well, the incentive may be to widen the base, and to worry about the suburbs in wisconsin and in pennsylvania and in michigan that helped get him elected the last time around. yeah, it s interesting with trump trying to analyze how he understands the incentives of politics. i mean, i think the broad lesson he takes from 2016 is that he feels he broke every rule of american politics. every rule of campaigning. and he won. so what do the experts now? that s the best i can tell in terms of the incentives he responds to but one thing to keep in mind when you look at the polls and his path in 2020, the base isn t enough alone for donald trump. there s a certain segment of voter that held its those and voted for him. the numbers that speak this in 2016 are on election day, in our exit poll, his favorable rating in 2016, the number of