libraries. they re very uncomfortable with the gun slaughter going on and i think that s where joe biden wins in a binary choice between the extremists and somebody who wants to unite us and appeal to our better angels. let me go to you, mike. our biden whisperer. as i watched his launch ad today, the word i wrote down just a moment ago is nostalgia he s a nostalgia candidate he genuinely believes that vision of america he put forward. he runs as this sunny optimist who says we re better than all of this, even though sometimes we re not better than all this, but he believes it does he believe he can leap frog over what is coming where they re essentially going to portray him as a demon straight from the pit of hell i have been talking a lot about a lot of bad poll numbers for the president. as i have been talking to senior biden strategists one of the things that has always been
flor floridians pockets. it s unfortunate we re here in this state of florida because the governor wants to run by president. mind you, he s in japan. he flew 19 hours to japan but wouldn t fly an hour and 15 minutes to ft. lauderdale. doesn t sound like he cares much about ft. lauderdale. he signed this six-week abortion ban in the dead of night he did release a picture on twitter surrounded by a bunch of women, but it seems to me there are women voters, lgbtq voters, i bet you there are even some trans republicans. has this attack on everybody, it seems, started to change minds about his, i don t know, attractiveness as a presidential candidate beyond just being governor you know what, yes. i think what we re seeing now, as governor desantis approaches this failed attempt to run for president, i think you re seeing the pushback from, of course, you re seeing it from democrats
very meat and potatoes issues. look at the middle class and say look at the things i can do. i m going to build you bridges and roads. now there s something different he s doing that they never did democrats never ran on abortion. they never touched guns. these now seem to be the most powerful issues in his favor, even with sort of moderate people who might in the past have considered a republican is that kind of the way the campaign is probably thinking about it i think that s exactly right. that s what s happening, that s what we re seeing. there s nothing more american than fighting for freedom. that s the message we saw in the campaign today that s had message that s going to resonate with american voters that s what the president is going to be running on you mentioned charlottesville a little while ago i think back to the tiki torch racists marching in the streets, the ones donald trump called very fine people that s the same very fine people who a block away from here sacked t
underappreciated about president biden is whenever they talk to focus groups, ordinary voters, people see him as an optimist, someone who has been through difficult times in his own life and continued to maintain this optimistic vision of the country. so as they contrast that and we saw it clearly in that announcement video with what they see is a republican vision of a very dark, backwards looking america, they think that ultimately americans are going to reward the president for that we see the three legs of the campaign stool today that democracy argument, what envir vice president harris is doing right now, holding a rally on abortion rights, but then it s what president biden did today, speak to a union crowd, talk about his economic accomplishments and keep that focus on the middle class. that s why they won the blue wall states in 2020 and that how they think they hold them in 2024 what s interesting, i did a little politics in my day, but the think that is so interesting abou
i m going to go to you first because you have actually run for office in the real world and also faced the fake world. and you know how powerful it is. i m just going to take you back to 2022, this is four years after your last election in missouri just look at these ads real quick. they want to defund the police, even as crime rages out of control across the state. josh riley, extreme liberal dangerous. mandela barnes stands with defund the police and supports no-cash bail that releases dangerous criminals back into our communities. streets are exploding with drugs and violence while liberals like tim ryan attack and defund our police. they all lost they all lost, claire, because that message of dystopia works is biden what is biden in for? i don t know go on. well, i m not sure that it s going to work this time. i think what they have done, after dobbs, and after all the