have more freedom or les freedom. more rights or fewer i know what i want, and i thin you do too this is not a time to be complacent that is why i am running for reelection and with former president donald j trump, the leadin contender for the republican nomination in 2024, a rematc is an actual possibility the biden campaign will put hi policies front and center, including his agenda on th economy. just hours after launching his reelection, bid president bide spoke to union workers i washington d.c. where he focused on his record. or the first things i did a president was signed the american rescue plan to help save the nation from the pandemic, vaccinate millions o people and through the bush luis ac to protect pensions. and then i signed the bipartisan infrastructure law. under my predecessor
reelection for incumbent presidents and i think there is a strange situation. you pull people and they are pessimistic. so, here s the cnbc polling. will the economy get worse 34% said yes now it s 53% pure economic pessimism. it goes from 37% to 69%. and as bloomberg notes, th part of the issue is dealing with the reality of ou reception obviously, prices remain elevated but how do you think about making the case on the economy you don t want to tell peopl they are wrong about their lif conditions and yet, the objective metrics seem pretty good yeah, look, i think, chris, the question there is, d people think it s going to get worse? and hearing on tv all the time that is going to be a recession, i think the things are going to get worse. that does not mean they don recognize the progress that been made. but they worry that thei direction of - not a good direction i think president biden has pu together a series of measure that will ensure that things are gonna get. better
presidential announcement, president biden laid out the stakes and took aim at what he calls magats republicans when i ran for presiden four years ago i said we are i a battle for the soul of america. and we still are the question we are facing i where they re in the years ahead we have more freedom o less freedom, more rights or fewer. i know what i want the answe to be. and i think you do too this is not a time to be complacent that is why i am running for reelection and with former president donald j. trump, the leading contender for the republican nomination in 2024, a rematc is an actual possibility the biden campaign will put hi policies front and center, including his agenda on th economy, just hours afte launching his reelection bid president biden spoke to union workers in washington d.c. where he focused on his record one of the first things i
i think they can make a case the economy is much better tha when we inherited it - in unemployment at six and a half percent, we have to mak it you have to make the case o the economy as the president has, and traveled the countr as he did today, and the speec to labor groups if the of th day, and you also have to tell people that it s going to ge better, that he has more new things to do to continue the growth, the economic growt creation, continue to make sure, as he said today in the speech and i also think that th democracies, these freedom issues are critical issues a well, and so both of those things are key principles on this campaign. when he ran in 2020, he said that he had two key things h was trying to do, restore th soul of america, and tha speaks to those freedom issues restore the backbone of america, which is where you build the middle class and grow th economy from the middle up, an those two central things remai
economic plan to continue to deliver the kind of jobs tha we have seen and voters ar going to have to see tha happen joe also seems to me, i m curious when you think, that i making its central to th affirmative case, that has t be key to be being wrecked reelected. i think they can make a case the economy is much better tha when we inherited it - in unemployment at six and a half percent, we have to mak it you have to make the case o the economy as the president has, and traveled the countr as he did today, and the speec to labor groups if the of th day, and you also have to tell people that it s going to ge better, that he has more new things to do to continue the growth, the economic growt creation, continue to make sure,