we have to do it. you know, one of the things we have learned in the last three election cycles, let s look at the 2016 presidential election. we had donald trump when three swing states buys 70 plus thousand votes. you had in 2020 wisconsin, georgia, and arizona biden wins by the vote count of 43,000 votes. okay, we are a divided country. where did all of this pie and the sky talk about a wave and s nami election come from because i never sought? here is what we saw. we saw the democrats weren t getting their votes out. we saw as we got closer, the bulls got better. but on election day our voters didn t show up. it was a complete disappointment . i think we have to reflect on what didn t happen.
floating john fetterman as potential president. we ll getting your response. fetterman as a nominee at some point for president. i know there s some variables, obviously. what he did in the super red, deep red parts of pennsylvania, the way he ran ahead of biden and trump, it just makes you wonder about his future. hmm presidential material, spencer? this is john fetterman, the man whose greatest accomplishment on the campaign trail was making crude tay a house hold name and hiding from his competitor and opponent. this is my low. this is the staggering overconfidence we ve seen before. because democrats weren t blown out of the water on tuesday night, they think they have some kind of mandate, that john fetterman could be a candidate for president. it sounds like they were talking in 2016 with hillary clinton
can he bring those people back? we ll know tomorrow. we will see. the insiders have spoken. rachel, back to you. thank you very much, joy. let s bring in our friend stephanie ruhle, host of the 11th hour on nbc. good to see you. good to be here. i want to ask you an economic messaging question. they were talking about president obama being the closer and knowing the right way to talk about these issues. is president obama talking about the economy in these closing days of the campaign in a way that tells a story that is true and motivating to democrats? he certainly is and he s doing it in a fantastic way. over the summer republicans have been messaging about the economy nonstop. they outspent democrats 5-1. this was an issue but democrats weren t talking about it enough. it s not that we have a good economy or bad economy, it s a complicated one. democrats were making good arguments saying if you don t have a functioning democracy, there s no way you re going to have a goo
messaging question. they were talking about president obama being the closer and knowing the right way to talk about these issues. is president obama talking about the economy in these closing days of the campaign in a way that tells a story that is true and motivating to democrats? he certainly is and he s doing it in a fantastic way. over the summer republicans have been messaging about the economy nonstop. they outspent democrats 5-1. this was an issue but democrats weren t talking about it enough. it s not that we have a good economy or bad economy, it s a complicated one. democrats were making good arguments saying if you don t have a functioning democracy, there s no way you re going to have a good economy. however, that doesn t sell when people are at the grocery store. it was president obama over the last week that reminded people republicans are pounding the table saying you don t like the economy, vote for republicans. they re not only not offering a solution, in many insta
actions that took place, that if democrats weren t able to get the inflation reduction act passed or the chips bill we would be in a far worse place. heading into election day that s something that republicans need to be concerned about as well. harris: you know i will step in, david. come on, faulkner fact checked that. inflation reduction act isn t built to do that and you know it. it is heartless to say it would ever do that. people were counting on that to happen and it doesn t touch it if. when democrats wanted to push that legislation so quickly across the weekend if we had had a wider public, more time to show them the cbo score it was consistent with analysts who said not until 2031 does it fall within the definite of the inflation reduction act even approach that by touching the deficit. we all agree it is hard to