to have to take that message to the american people, and this is, i think, a high-profile way for him to do it. so, as you well know in 2023, campaign spent a lot of time trying to highlight the presidents economic accomplishments. they gave the name, calling it bidenomics. the polls show that the many ways the improving economy is not translating to voters. many still believe the economy is in trouble. so, why hasn t biden caught in the credit for the economy? why isn t it being interpreted as a success? and will the economy remain the focus of the campaign? doesn t it have to? well, it s interesting. historically, what campaign people will tell you if the economy is the most important factor in any presidential campaign outside of a war. if we re not in a more at that moment. and it s the 1990s, the campaign slogan for the clinton campaign was the economy. but i think the history doesn t apply here in the same way it used to. i don t think the economy is the salient figure that i
and bidenomics did not come up enough. sandra: isn t that the case with republicans, there was a sense in the midterm elections like you can t just say ok, biden s policies aren t working, you have to sell you have to sell the fix. you have to sell the solution. larry: you are 100% right. it should have been the calvary but it was a platoon back in 2022. the republicans should have done much better. they just they have to sharpen their focus on this, and look, the party is split on foreign policy, i get that. woke is no good and so forth. but the economy, jobs, inflation, look at every poll, they say the same thing. they must show people that they can do it better. sandra: if you have people, more and more people living with their parents, can t afford a home, soaring credit card debt, now issuing food stamp expansions because people cannot afford larry: i did not hear one
the republican candidates last night had some good moments, not all, but many, they didn t hit this enough. they didn t hit bidenomics enough, they didn t hit the affordability problem enough. look, you can yelp about spending, ok. sandra: some of the candidates did. some spend way too much money. the fact of the matter is, during the pandemic deals were made, bipartisan deals were made, i was very much a part of the negotiations, ok. i would have liked to have cut the payroll tax and maybe spend less but the reality was, when the pandemic came crashing down in the spring and summer of 2020, government was there to step in and make up for lost income and lost jobs, ok. you can criticize that til the cows come home and look back and say we shouldn t have done this, shouldn t have done that, i might agree with you on some points but the reality is what was done was done, and that s
senate finance committee, senator and doctor john barras barrasso, welcome senator, it seems strange that both political parties think the economy is a winning electoral argument, who do you think is right and why? republicans are right, the headline is this, high prices are here to stay in the american people know who caused it, joe biden and the democrats, they are out there celebrating, this is a disaster for so many people all across the country they call it bidenomics, the shorthand for bidenomics, you pay more and you get less, i was at the state fair in douglas wyoming and everyone is talking about the cost of things, the price of groceries continue to go up, the price of gasoline continues to go up people are having a harder into harder time keeping up, the way the american people see joe biden is his numbers are very
senate finance committee, senator and doctor john bar barrasso, welcome senator, it seems strange that both political parties think the economy is a winning electoral argument, who do you think is right and why? republicans are right, the headline is this, high prices are here to stay in the american people know who caused it, joe biden and the democrats, they are out there celebrating, this is a disaster for so many people all across the country they call it bidenomics, the shorthand for bidenomics, you pay more and you get less, i was at the state fair in douglas wyoming and everyone is talking about the cost of things, the price of groceries continue to go up, the price of gasoline continues to go up people are having a harder into harder time keeping up, the way the american people see joe biden is his numbers are very