and hyperprogressive, that was never really a moniker that necessarily stuck across the board, and so it s not necessarily biden s political persona, i think, that s the baggage here. it s inflation, higher prices at the gas pump, that s what he has been fighting against and it s partly why, as we see those prices coming down, we re seeing approval ratings going up and all of that at the same time as democrats in congress are grinding the gears to notch legislative wins as well. so, jesse, we talk about the tim ryan-biden factor. how much of this is that tim ryan sees this open door? jd vance is completely i say this as an ex-republican. a caricature of what jd vance thinks republicans in the trump era should sound like. this wasn t a gotcha interview. this was a friendly conversation where he said women should remain in violent marriages, it s good for the kids. he s what mitch mcconnell s talking about when he says, candidate quality is an issue. he has he s broke.
whose heart was once broken by the party breaking bad to see it, but there s a piece of her trying to save conservatism. when you look at the long arc of history, do you think it can be save? if we talk about real conservative, yes. i choose to believe the majority of americans still love our small d democratic institutions. want to see a supreme court that is not extreme. wants to see a congress who is not full of people who are bowing to a cult leader in a throne room in palm beach. want to see a president who may have views that people disagree with but at least stays within the rule of law. that s something that you and i have demanded, you know, and people like us for over two centuries. all of that right now is in danger. yeah. and we re living through a time where i can t predict to you whether we ll be living in a democracy five years from now or not. i hope we are. it s so you are the
we did go up against it and biden did keep his word, but let s not act like we don t have some battles ahead. yeah, so, what i was going to ask you is, you know, for me, with my baggage as an ex-republican, there s so much shame, and she s so qualified. i mean, this is someone who has impeccable qualifications, the temperament, everything that people in both parties used to talk about. and for me, the searing image was the lone mitt romney applauding her while the rest of them raced out to get to their maga zooms or wherever the hell they were going. but to me, to only see one republican i mean, elections have consequences. people in both parties understand that. but to see only one republican have the grace and you voted for her, but the fact that people who didn t vote for her couldn t be part of the moment the country was experiencing gave me that bittersweet feeling. which shows the divide in the country. as great as it is today, for black women, for women, and for
outright steal the election in 2024, and i thought one of the most important things the president said was that there s two sets of rules here that the republican party at the state level is passing all these anti-democracy bills through simple majority party line votes, but it requires a bipartisan super majority in the senate to protect voting rights, and he said, we have to have majority rule in america. we have to have majority rule in the u.s. senate and that is the most important takeaway from this speech today. jamie, what is the sort of public relations effort that comes off this speech look like? i mean, you ve got this is what, as an ex-republican, this is what astounds me about the democrats. you ve got public opinion on your side, 57% of all democrats support majority rule, 15% more of republicans support it. 60% of all americans support making it easier to vote, not harder to vote, and nobody i don t even know the number, but no one is for partisan cronies being in c