compared to this guy, jimmy carter. take a look. the threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. it is a crisis of confidence. it is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national world. this is not a message of reassurance. it is the truth. it is a warning. apparently harris knows no history and doesn t notice the real malaise is right in her ow office. she has lost evan staffers in less than a year and the commentary and leaking say she is not particularly nice to the people who work for her. it doesn t help that she has he new communications director jamaal simmons who is a man tha is openly criticized her, joe biden and the vaccine in the past. he has made other past comments that he has had to apologize for .
will president trump be able to separate governing from campaigning during the 2020 election. joining me now, we welcome michael steele, krysta salta-sanderson and jamaal simmons. thank you for being here. it s great to have you. this, kristen, let s just you are the pollster among us. joe biden s poll numbers. this president we know is driven by poll numbers. does that explain why he s so focused on the vice president even while he s overseas? there s two theories to this, he sees poll numbers showing joe bide ing probably ahead of him. perhaps by significant margins in these blue wall states. at least that s what the public polling is showing. he s getting the message that joe biden is formidable in these states. that s theory number one, theory number two is that he would
kristen welker who joins us from the white house as well as jamaal simmons. charlie sykes and christopher matthews. you were in the room for the briefing. lots of stuff discussed. seems like the most questions that were thrown at sean spicer today were about the transgender bathroom order issued yesterday by the president. you re absolutely right, jacob. he got a number of questions about that very topic. i pressed him on that topic. and a couple of different points there. one, does the president see this as a civil rights issue. spicer went back to the talking point, the position of the president, which is that the president sees this as a states rights issue. i pushed him on that point and said, look, more than 80% of transgender kids feel bullied in school. is the president not leaving those kids open to and vulnerable to increased bullying.
50/50 based on all of our reporting. here s the senate leaders who made their case on both sides. listen. more than two weeks into his term president trump has the fewest cabinet secretaries confirmed at this point than any other president since george washington. the president deserves to have his cabinet in place. all that we democrats are insisting on is careful, careful consideration of nominees who we believe almost universally are below par. let me bring in now our panel, democratic strategist jamaal simmons and susan del percio. susan, let me start with you. we heard senator mcconnell talk about the slow space of cabinet confirmation. but is some of the onus on the
well, part of that is that these other demographic groups are up. so white women, latinos are up and that s decreased the share of the vote that african-americans make up but in raw vote numbers in florida in particular, they re actually ahead of where they were in 2012. that s a very good point. i want to bring in jamaal simmons, who magically appeared. we can t live without jamaal. no. democrats kicked in gear, they got resources like sending barack obama like 83 times to go down there we know that the noncommitted, those are increasingly people of color. they are. a lot of people don t want to identify themselves as being a democrat or republican but they tend to vote one way or the other. as an organizer, it s pretty