presidential election showing the average trump voter did come from a household with a higher income than the national average as a whole. that doesn t mean there weren t trump supporters who had challenges. they absolutely did. the president has not done a sufficient job to many of those to respond to those. it really means it was the cultural anxiety that led them to back this president more than anything else. they know that. he knows that. that is why he continues to respond to them with this issue because it speaks to that. anna, the president says he plans to visit baltimore when the time is right but in the last day the white house has received thousands of accolades from the african-american community for the comments the president has made about baltimore. he continues to say that billions of dollars have been stolen. is there any evidence to support this? not so far. the white house has not put forward any list of groups. i mean, really the only public statements that we
said white women voters said they were definitely not voting for trump in 2020. he s got big problems across the board. eugene, you write in your latest piece that the president s race baiting strategy is about targeting people who feel left behind. the president has had the last two years to take that portion of the population and lift them up. those who he hasn t lifted up, what could he be saying to them? and the rest of his base, they re sticking with him no matter what he says. well, i think that s because we know that feeling left behind is not the same thing as actually being left behind. and the reality is despite many of the president s supporters saying it was the economic anxiety that they were experiencing that led them to get on to trump train, it was the anxiety. though some of these people may feel like they re having a hard time and life is not going as well for them we do know there is data from the 2016
hampshire which is not for half a year or more. i just think there is a long way to go and we re prepared for the long race. i think the message i m running on is really important and it s what we win on. so i m not paying too much attention to the polls right now. i m paying attention to what the message is i m giving to people and how we actually beat trump in 2020. most importantly, how do we improve the lives of our citizens? so many americans continue to struggle. so many americans have so much economic anxiety and that s what i m running on, those kind of solutions. i m pretty confident that s what matters to most americans and it is going to cut through. are you prepared to go head to head on health care with bernie sanders tonight? the last time you and i spoke you said this. medicare for ally dethat involves getting rid of private insurance. if the democratic candidate supports that idea, they will lose in the general by nine points. do you plan to have this debate this even
suppression illegal. and it passed. the marijuana passed. we had a huge african-american turnout and that gave us we got democrats elected. so instead of putting all our hopes in one politician, to carry the thing, we have to get these ballot proposals on in the swing states. that will bring out people to vote. what do you think about that, christine, putting things other than the presidential race on the ballot? well, we ve been doing that in california for decades so we know the strategy works because we do it in our home state. we ve been doing that since nancy pelosi was chair of the democratic party when i was a teenager. so let s not forget we won the house in 2018 because the day after the election, then leader nancy pelosi was on the phone with the grass roots fighting to protect our care. we knew that if trump won the two things we d have to worry about would be the supreme court and the affordable care act
ii, the 80s, the 90s, stock market in the dot com days. but yes. in part trump is directly responsible for the fed having to cut interest rates because as jay powell has said multiple times on capitol hill and elsewhere, it is the trade war that is slowing things down. business investment down 0.6% in the second quarter. exports down. the corporate tax cut, the entire argument was with that big tax cut we re going to see a boom, a boost in business investment and it s down. it is down. it was good in the first quarter and dropped off in the second. it was pretty good in 2017. but i think everybody, we on this show talked about it multiple times, this would give us a short sugar high from this tax cut. we would get a little bit of business investment, a lot of stock buybacks, a lot of dividends. not a lot of buying new equipment, not a huge amount of investment. that is exactly what we re seeing. ben white, thank you so much. this week one of america s oldest automobile factorie