to what these numbers are showing. but i think the bottom line for the president, 52% of people impose impeachment and that is in the key states to decide the next election. neil: thank you very much my friend. many did not. even in some districts where the president won handily. could that then on democrats? we have democratic strategists extraordinary. both are splendid i noticed. that goes without saying for my next guests, the wall street journal s jillian melcher. the fact that the process has begun but it is all one way. what do you think? this is really irregular. impeachment is a serious thing, overturning the will of the american voter and this is
jillian, putting a final point on this. the jobs part of this. the one thing that has blown me away, i got to tell you, seven consecutive months of blue collar wage broke more than 3%. we haven t seen anything like this in well over a decade. six of those seven months, wages for blue collar workers growing faster than their supervisors. those are jobs in the heartland and jobs that president trump promised. yeah, we re seeing last year in october, record breaking unemployment. i was excited to see today that small business hiring is up. so lots of good signs here. and you know, there s also a fed paper that just came out today and it s looking at the impact of such a tight labor market and really showing that when the economy is booming like it is right now, that no one is left behind. so the theory here is that female workers, people of color, workers with a lack of skills or lack of education in a labor market this tight, businesses are going to give opportunities to all of them.
race? let s get reaction from the hill s editor-in-chief and the wall street journal s jillian melcher. bob, let s start with you. we had an amazing run in wealth. the fourth quarter affected some softness in housing. obviously, those aren t the numbers that the president wants to go into in 2020. how important are they? very important, charles. i mean, that is what trump has. he has the economy. the economy has improved. i think what you re going to hear from the president in his re-election campaign is what you ve heard from prior candidates when the economy is booming is are you better off than you were four years ago? that s something the democrats will have to grapple with. it s a long way before 2020. we don t know what s going to happen with china. that china deal, if it happens, will greatly impact the market. but right now, it is the one thing that trump is going to repeatedly mention. of course, going after democrats for investigations but the economy being something that
middle class. this is where this is going to be decided on. if they have a candidate that s too progressive, then trump is going to be it s a binary choice as you know and he can go after their policies. charles: which is why many are saying that joe biden is the moderate hope for the democratic party, perhaps a savior. bob and jillian, i ll ask you both this. i ll let you finish and then jillian. joe biden comes in and says yes, we ve had a 10 year run. eight of those happened when i was part of the team that made it happen. i mean, is he ultimately the one who could come in for the democratic side with some sort of not only economic vision, perhaps, certainly blue collar side. but to say i ve got a resume as well? listen, i think that biden is would be somebody that republicans and we ve talked to republicans. they re nervous about. at the same time, trump can use his numbers against the obama administration and say which numbers are better for the economy? and that is the ad
smart young folks that i know. the attorney, emily campano reasoning for democratic senate in new jersey. michael starr hopkins and wall street journal s jillian melcher. we called senator bob menendez. are you leery of these markets? i am. the volatility scares anyone. one of the things that mel len yeah 0 millennials, we don t have the discretionary spending. but you re a lawyer. many of them don t have it because of student debt, credit card debt. the whining begins. they don t have the income. neil: had you put in a little in before, you might have had it. i think that one of the things growing up in a