on the campaign trail and a swing voter population, in the hispanic community, evenly divided between republicans and democrats. you do need moderate candidates. edward: and he ran on unifying the country and that has not happened yet. do you think that members like aoc will be well-received by voters in states or districts that could go republican? i don t think that it depends how she approaches the issues. if she goes and starts using the divisive rhetoric she s often known for, she s going to turn a lot of hispanic voters off, especially if she s not paying attention to the issues that they are concerned about. a lot of hispanic voters down in texas are just as concerned about the border as republicans are. they re concerned about inflation. and if she walks in and dismisses those issues as trivial, she is going to be considered divisive by the voters. edward: we ve seen 29 democrats now in the house saying they re not running for reelection, and many of the moderate members.
something that our president and vice president have yet to do since taking office. on the economy the contrast couldn t be more stark. while democrats in d.c. are spending trillions, sending inflation soaring, republican leaders around the country are balancing budgets and cutting taxes. because we know that money spent on main street is better than money spent on bureaucracy. today i signed legislation that eliminates iowa s tax on retirement income and sets our tax rate at 3.9%. that s less than half of what it was just four years ago. it shouldn t come as a surprise that out of the top 20 states with the lowest unemployment rates, 17 have republican governors. republicans may not have the white house, but we re doing what we can to fill the
resources to the border. and we have actually gone to the border. something that our president and vice president have yet to do since taking office. on the economy, the contrast couldn t start. while democrats in d.c. are spending trillions, sending inflation soaring, republican leaders around the country are balancing budgets and cutting taxes. because we know that money spent on main street is better than money spent on bureaucracy. today i signed legislation that eliminates iowa s tax on retirement income and sets are attacked foul tax rate at 3.9%. that is less than half of what it was just four years ago. and it shouldn t come as a prize that out of the top 20 states with the lowest unemployment rates, 17 have republican governors. republicans may not have the
border, something that our president and vice president have yet to do since taking office. on the economy, the contrast couldn t be more stark. while democrats in dc are spending trillions, sending inflation soaring, with public and leaders around the country are balancing budgets and cutting taxes. because we know that money spent on main street is better than money spent on bureaucracy. today, i signed legislation that eliminates iowa s tax on retirement income and sets our tax rate at 3.9%. that s less than half of what it was just four years ago. and it shouldn t come as a surprise that out of the top 20 states with the lowest unemployment rates, 17 have republican governors. republicans may not have the white house, but we re doing what we can to fill the
the price tag they are hanging on it and all of it is writing. the total will be $4.7 trillion. of that 1.5 trillion will be paid for and the rest would be added to the national debt. that s why we have inflation and people know it, which is my spending more money by the government, building up the debt and drying greater interest payments and putting greater pressure on our kids and grandkids to pay for our debts is not the way to deal with inflation. gillian: karl, take off your macroeconomics professor had and put on your political strategist hat. when you look at this you see the president s poll numbers sort of tanking and direct correspondence to inflation soaring. what s happening at the white house? how is the message not making it across the goal line? they have two things going on