voters that voted in 2020 excited to turnout and right now the democrats can t use biden, and they can t use harris, because they are unpopular in virginia. that s a problem for democrats. bret: gentleman, always good to dig into a race like this, thank you very much. up next, what s in and what s out right now and the president s tax-and-spend agenda. plus, democrats have not given up on the idea of packing the supreme court. what about that commission? we have an update. you don t become a runner, who breaks eight world records. after age 65, without a serious support system. kathy martin has one in medicare from blue cross blue shield. she won t go a day without the right card. because she can t go a day without running. the medicare coverage trusted by more doctors. this is the benefit of blue. find your local blue cross and blue shield plan at benefitofblue.com shingles? oh. you mean bill. find your local blue cross and blue shield plan he s been a real pain. again with the
the inflation and a bag of groceries and they can also see the empty shelves, and so they re not going to you know, in the past they ve been told this is temporary, this isn t real. it doesn t look that way now. bret: yeah, mara, the transitory thing, a lot of people are saying this does not look transitory at all. well, it certainly is lasting longer than a lot of people in the it administration thought it would. does it go away next year? with simple he don t know. i can tell you it s pretty in artful to khaleda high-class problem and you know who wouldn t have called a high-class problem? joe biden himself. and anything that makes it harder for middle-class people to afford the stuff they need is a problem. not a high-class one. hob problem. and the problem for the bite in the administration is that everything in the economy is now on them, and that s why the president is moving trying to do something what the supply chains, backlogs, and hoping that inflation will be
the tweet in question was really a retweet, he points to this from jason furman. most of the economic problems we are facing, inflation, supply chains, et cetera, are high-class problems. we wouldn t have had them if the unappointed rate was still 10%, we would instead have had a much worse problem. well, if you look at the price jumps on common items here, gas up 42%, used cars up 24%, tvs 13, furniture 11, meats, poultry, fish, and eggs up 10% year-over-year 2021 and 2022. high-class or not. but spring our panel, bill mcgurn, columnist for the wall street journal, mara eliasson, national pollock radio, and steve hayes, editor of the dispatch. steve, what you think of this? well, look, i think it s one thing if you have a respected economist like jason furman tweeting this. i mean, he is widely respected among the republicans and democrats alike and i think he
but there s only about 200,000 swing voters left that will vote in virginia. that s a huge problem for terry mcauliffe, because when you look at the polling of early boats that have already been cast, there s not many left to go, and republicans will win on election day. we know for sure that that s going to happen. this is going to be close, but if you look at those numbers that you just showed there, bret and i don t like it that this always happens, but democrats usually out poll republicans in general education questions. the fact that in that poll glenn youngkin is only one or two points down from terry mcauliffe on the issue of education, that s got to give democrats a lot of heartburn. bret: i just have a few seconds. it is off year, mo, and you really have to fire up people to get them out. early voting is starting, so democrats are going to be looking at that. if you know, just how do you calculate it?