to those counties to say we re going to make your lives better. the first thing is you have to show up and listen and show you ve had a track record of believing that the system was rigged against everyday folks. i think as you noted in the clinton recovery, about 70% of the job growth was in small to medium-sized towns and counties. this time it was only 17% so there have been regions that have been left behind. that s a crazy statistic. that explains so much. here s the thing. positions that i ve taken that people think put me on the left like rejecting these two gas pipelines that are controversial in western virginia are actually very popular with trump voters because they hate the monopolies, they hate farmers and small business owners haven t gotten a shot at the energy sector or food sector because of this consolidation that happened in our economy. they don t like the fact that despite our partisanship the biggest donors to both political parties in virginia are doe minut
who voted rejected the politics of donald trump but a majority rejected the democratic candidate despite her being an excellent candidate so i think it s not enough for us to assume anti-trump energy is pro-democratic party energy. we have to earn at and we do it by running a progressive campaign. that s true in the state of virginia where if you put up the map of virginia what you ll see is a lot of votes in metro areas for democrats, most of the rest of the state conservative and that maps on to where their economic growth and opportunity that is expanding and where there isn t. where it s shrinking and those large swaths of rural virginia that you and i have traveled through together are struggling in a way that i wonder what a candidate, a politician can say to those counties to say we re going to make your lives better. the first thing is you have to show up and listen and show you ve had a track record of believing that the system was rigged against everyday folks. i think as
lots of faxes and taxes and fees will smack us as well. you say this could hold back a full recovery. how 0 so? there. these taxes are real, scheduled to go in effect after the election. they really hit seniors most. you talk about who is dependent on medical devices, the tax on those companies will go up and they pass that along to consumers. you re going to see increased prices in medical devices. seniors are dependent on medical devices. we re putting a changing how much you can take deduct from taxes on medical expenses. you ll be able to deduct less. flexible spending accounts. it has to do with flexible spending and tax deductions. they get hit too. these are real sneaky taxes that we don t need to see right now. certainly not in this sort of
hope a trend is our friend. i do wonder about the things in the g.d.p. report, because we can remember in a typical rebound, you see much more spry growth in ron s rebound we had 6 percent or 7 percent or 8 percent a quarter. i know it is different now. i know there are a lot of differences in general, now, but in the clinton recovery that extended from the bush sr. recover, three, four, five percent quarters, but nothing like that at this stage. is this what we get used to? do we celebrate this? are the markets embracing the new paradigm? guest: well, it will all come down to the election november. the tone and tenor is set by who is in office and the difference between reagan and even the clinton economies certainly the bush economies when we are coming out of recession, there