shows you inflation started right about january 20th. rachel: it was pretty ridiculous of them to try to pass this off as a putin price hike. even strategists like axelrod were saying very early on this is probably not going to work. that might be why you see approval numbers for joe biden, look at this, his handling of his job as president, only 33% approve. 54% disapprove. mark penn, a very well-known former clinton pollster says that joe biden s poll numbers are in big, big trouble. take a listen. these are spectacularly low numbers. to really get down to it, only a third being favorable and in the 20s on independence. of course makes reelection a virtual impossibility. the administration has got to pivot or this is going to be a tornado of a midterms if these numbers continue to hold up.
esses party approaches the midterms. i m going to be out on the road a lot making the case around the country with my colleagues up for reelection and others making the case of what we did do and what we want to do. what we need to do. and so i don t think i ve overpromise at all. i m going to stay on this track. clustering and former clinton pollster, mark penn the priest chairman of the harris poll and chairman of the state well group welcome. as you look at the polling, what accounts for the presidents standing the precipitous fall from mid-summer? our new polling has him at 39% approval. i think it really is a combination of people think 61% say maybe he is too old to be president.
he s got to take some real tangible steps as we did to make that pivot. that is his only way to building numbers if you ask me. paul: our my ge did not do that to after the midterms when you got a thumping and 94. what i heard from the president on wednesday did not sound like he s really planning a course correction. well, you see president clinton was told he s going to win the 94 congressional elections. i always joke those elections got me my job because i was not hired until after that. [laughter] here, you see the snowball coming in your head. you have the chance to do it. the theory clearly is double down on the base let s not go out on the swing voters. double down on voting rights even though it s a base issue and not one of the big four or five confronting the lives of
down. tucker: uh-huh. so this is getting a little confusing. we are joined by former clinton pollster, bernard whitman. thanks so much for coming on. i thought we were for all good liberals, we were for gun control, i keep hearing that, but the one gun control programs that has worked backed by a liberal, michael bloomberg, we arero now against? what do you make of this? there is no question michael bloomberg has done an extraordinary amount to get gun off on the streets of america. he has invested tens of millions of dollars, most recently, in virginia, to flipd the state legislature blue and enact gun control. i think it s going to ultimately lead to gun safety laws in virginia and tucker: hold on. we had a gun safety law, we had the only effective gun control law i have ever seen, ask any criminologist, i wrote ave bookn this once, stop and frisk actually worked. and everyone is against it nowke but i thought they were for gun control because they wanted to make the streets
a little confusing. we are joined by former clinton pollster, bernard whitman. thanks so much for coming on. i thought we were for all good liberals, we were for gun control, and keep hearing that, but the one gun control programs that has worked backed by a liberal, michael bloomberg, we are now against? what do you make of this? there is no question michael bloomberg has done an extra ordinary not to get gun talk on the streets of america. he has invested tens of millions of dollars, most recently, in virginia, to flip the legislator blue and enact gun control. i think it s going to ultimately lead to gun safety laws in virginia and tucker: i m sorry that we had a gun safety law, we had the only effective gun control law i have ever seen, ask any criminologist, i wrote a book on this once, stop and frisk actually worked, and everyone is against it now but i thought they were for gun control because they wanted to make the streets safer. how do you score this? i m honestly confu