class. there is either extreme rich or extreme poor and the rest of us just kinds of fall through the cracks. it is exactly those kinds of voters that democrats and the white house are trying to reach. we heard the president just yesterday insisting that americans should trust that he has a plan to help working families. but those families are feeling frustrated and overwhelmed. and, in fact, we saw a little of president biden s own frustration in a letter today where he lashed out at oil companies for making huge profits while gas prices hit record levels. for him, his administration, and the entire democratic party, this economic problem has become an escalating political problem. consider the stakes w more than two dozen states holding primaries over the next three months. voters are making decisions based on what they are feeling now, not what might happen down the line. if you like $8 a gallon gas and you like continued rising costs on every single type of goods that
attention for that. is this a message problem? it is a messenger problem? can one happen without the other? it is all of those problems. tim laid out pretty well the messaging failures of this white house. they have gone from, you know, it s big oil s problem, it s putin s problem on inflation. it s the fed s job to do it, not really ours. so they haven t sent a lot of message. but i have talked to a lot of people inside the white house economic team over the last couple of weeks and they are frustrated by the fact that there isn t that much they are trying to pull the levers they can. tim is right, they need a clearer message. lance bottoms is important to not only talk about the message and reach out to the economic groups, but that s the office that is a keeley ason to the business community. it has been open.