party. the turninemism of the repg pois that speech he gave a few weeks ago. really, really, really, reallyi, made it a referendum on the republicans and extremism and semite fascism. and i think that is starting tof pay off. ss now seeing progress, perhaps rewardee for some of the legislation that s been passed and some of the thingsn d he s been doing just latelyiden who look at what the administration has accomplished, whether it s a bipartisan infrastructure deal , whether it se the inflation reduction act, whether it s the christian in all of these things are about the economy. there sd scienc beating so fr their little heads are going toh fly right off. the ec the economy is in dire straits. here straits the truth. diode we ve got the dow dropping below thirty thousand below its june lows. the dow and s&p are now both below their june lows. nasdaq certainly alreadyy there. there, down 22% and about 30%. of the nasdaq year to date. there s a fear here that it s s
sense and sanity. we re going to go toshire in a new hampshire in a moment, but connecticut, m begin with connecticut, my old home staty e. wh s been lagging behind for a while now. now it s labor forceilw. has nearlyearl fifty two thousand fewer workers than it had in february. the p 2020 before the pandemic. ie it s seen big companies like gea and aetna leavete and between 1991 and two thousand twenty nearlye left five hundred fifty thousand more people left connecticut for otheok r states , then move there. so that s a big net loss. the state hasn t haddozen a republican governor in a dozen years or syeor so ano at elected a republican senator since reagan sator sinc so what are they waiting for? joining me now is liora levy. she s the republican nomineeo for connecticut senate senatoecand she s looking to unt senator richard blumenthal. now, he s a nasty olr richard dy . he s been in office for nearly a four decades and liend lied abon service in vietnam. the specifics of it ar