because of the pandemic, when factories shutdown in asia they had no idea they were supplying essential materials to us, shutdown around the world. these small computer chips, the size of your finger tip, they affect nearly everything in our lives. our cell phones. automobiles, refrigerators, weapons systems, everything. america invented these chips we made them smaller, faster and more powerful. but over time we went from producing 40% of the world s chips down to just 10% of them despite leading the world in research and design. you saw what happened during the pandemic when the global economy came to a halt overseas factories that made the chips shutdown driving up the costs for everyone around the world, particularly american families every new car built needs as many as 3,000 of these chips during the pandemic, that s the reason car prices skyrocketed. and in some cases new car production shutdown because the chips were in short supply but now the private sector at home
addition to making the maga argument to voters he s talking about tangible things he wants to run on. i think i heard in there a call to the folks to help with the ground game, a little grass roots appeal there as well something that audience knows well having said that, take us inside the campaign for a minute. what are you hearing what worries them most well, i think as others have outlined the economy is the vulnerability here to be fair, no in coming president does well for a re-election bid if the economy were to go south there s good numbers here. job growth is one of the first and foremost the biden team points to. inflation though it s dropped is still high there are still fears of a recession. still a strain on the global economy put in place by the war in ukraine there is the economy, the president s age and his advisers