this country way before i start thinking about my personal economic situation. so, yes, when i look at their economic policies, and their economic policies are basically cut taxes on the richest americans and on the most powerful corporations. that s their actual economic policy. and then they think it will drop down to everybody else. trickle-down. trickle-down. but actually, what they do is cut taxes on the richest americans and corporations, then they pay for it by cutting health care and education for everybody else. and that s not a guess. i ve gone around this country doing town halls, so i ve been to all these red states where there s a republican governor, a republican state senate, and a republican assembly. and they always have the same economic playbook, cut taxes, cut health care, let people die, cut education, don t give them a
woman and college students. that s what may not be showing up in the polls. polls don t vote, people do. do not underestimate the black women in georgia like they underestimated them in alabama. and don t underestimate how angry people are at this thing of fear and what we have experienced in the last week or so. betsy, does your covering this race indicate that the independents, that many of them went to trump in 16, some of them that voted for obama went to trump but they are now turned off by this rhetoric we ve heard from this president and his fear mongering and race baiting? candidly i couldn t speak to that level of granularity of
speech to me also. so don t underestimate this ground swell because it s really going to be a ground game. that s really what s going to happen. just a minute, joe. let me go to betsy. let me get back to these other races. one of the things i ve seen that we were clear about today is telling people about issues, supporting restoration of exfelons voting rights. we know health care is an issue around the country. we re hearing it everywhere. the economy. where does president trump become the issue and where do these other issues weigh in? are they both and the same? that s a great question.
let me start here in florida today. i ve been all over south florida and did three churches, did the souls to the polls. a lot of energy here to come out and vote. obviously churches and civil rights leaders, we don t tell people who to vote for, but we tell them to vote, long lines, a lot of energy. but what we don t know is whether there is a lot of energy that will cancel each other out. hugh hewitt, there are also reports there is a lot of energy in what is perceived to be mainly republican districts. what s your read on this two days out? i m as happy as i could have possibly hoped to have been. this is the new nbc poll, and 92% of republicans are with the republicans, president trump.
those who voted for obama and went to trump. what i can tell you is i spent this weekend in virginia 7th congressional district where dave bratt is running against abigail stanberger, democrat who s giving him the real run for his money. one thing that stood out to me speaking with voters is there are a number of folks who supported bratt in his initial candidacy and have been frustrated by he hasn t pushed back against the trump agenda and the other issues the country faces, and that that particular district faces. now, can i extrapolate from that reporting trends about the boarder way that independents are voting? i personally don t know that i could do that, but i think generally speaking that district is an interesting microcosm of the direction this country is