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president trump. basically you have pennsylvania voters who are saying we think the economy is excellent and good, but we re ready to vote for joe biden by 11 points. it was so interesting because biden did not shy away from talking about the economy today. right. he almost acted like this was one of his selling points because he talked about how the recovery started and has since continued from the obama administration which he was part of, right? right. that s right, and that is the case that he can make. what s a ig little hard times and democrats and republicans have found this, and trying to remind people, well, the last guy deserves more credit than this guy, and what biden is counting on is president trump still making these, you know, cases against, you know, for tariffs on china that can send the stock market gyrating, that basically that president trump will look like an uneven steward of the economy so that biden can say it was much more stable and calm. growth was h
it almost seems crickontradicto that he s calling for unity, and going full throttle on the attack side against donald trump. in some ways he s channeling the theory that s out there, and finding the passion that s in the base? he s thread a needle and the needle is this. it s around that childish behavior idea. it s around the idea that there are republicans, independents, democrats who may like trump on the economy, who may like the tougher stands on china, but they are sick and tired of the endless tweeting and name calling, you know, frankly dog whistling, racist behavior that can come out of this white house and this president. they are tired of that. the impact is interesting that we have showed. biden is up 11 points on trump in pennsylvania, but a majority of the voters in that poll said that they thought that the economy was excellent or good. the majority of those voters those are the kind of numbers that usually benefit an incumbent president like
[ applause ] raise challenges we face in the future. whether it be over technology, slel electual properly. there isn t a single thing that building a wall can address on any of these issues. as long as donald trump is in the white house, none of these critical things are going to get done. reporter: now biden held back official kickoff rally here in philadelphia, pennsylvania, where he is also basing his campaign headquarters, and it s where biden sees a possible opening. this is a state that president trump won back in 2016. they wanted to bring over to the blue column in 2020. there is a recent poll that showed what a possible head to ho head matchup between joe biden and donald trump would look like with biden beating donald trump 53% to 42%. while biden was here in philadelphia, president trump is coming to the state on monday to
be reconsidered. how likely do you think that really is in the next few years? what i think is important for everyone to realize is that probably in the last ten years or so, there have been over 400 bills and state legislatures all over this country putting obstacles and roadblocks in front of women getting legal abortions. so these few that have just come to light, alabama and georgia and so forth which were much more extreme, this is nothing new, and this is really it s a plan to somehow get more and more of these cases to the supreme court not necessarily to completely overturn roe v. wade, but to put more and more obstacles in front of women, especially poor and working women who can t afford to fly or go to another state to have a legal abortion. do you believe that now with justice brett kavanaugh, with neil gorsuch both on the bench, how the supreme court has been