i want to put the second poll up. this is democrats, right? and are you do you want the president to run again? these numbers are striking. are you enthusiastic or satisfied if biden is elected in 2024? 36% say yes. 62% say dissatisfied/angry. your thoughts? well, you know, trace, i think, look, it s obvious the american people are not thrilled with the job that the president is doing. the economy s been a challenge. our role in the world has been a challenge. look at our withdrawal from afghanistan. look at the chinese spy balloon. americans don t feel like americans, whether it s economically at home, their opportunity to gain success here in the united states or our ability to influence world events overseas. they just don t see it. and then they blame the president for that. this poll by the way is just democrats, kevin. i thought this was fascinating. this is just democrats. put this up. it is among 24 democrats, right? run among the democrats.
issues, well, they re huge when it comes to inflation and higher prices, higher crime rates and, yeah, you guessed it, political divisions as well. and i want to leave you with this. i think you ll find this fascinating. the fox news survey also said in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup between the current president and former president trump, trump would win 48-44 according to that survey. trace: which is fascinating. kevin, stand by. you can help me grill these gentlemen in a minute. in the meantime, that s not the only poll casting the president s job performance in a negative light tonight. let s talk about that and the infamous chinese balloon with pete peterson and the executive director of the national security institute jameel jafar. welcome to both of you. pete, i want to go to you first. i want to put the washington post poll off, are you better off? americans feeling economic pain under president biden. are you worse off? 41% say they re worse off and 16% say they re b
craft after 5,000 flight radar users tracked its movements. the aircraft tracking site corrected the record stating on twitter, sorry, this is the chinese balloon. this is not the chinese balloon. are you better off now than four years ago? for a record number of americans, the answer to that decades old political question is a resounding no since president biden took office. the white house correspondent kevin corke is digging into these numbers and is live with us here in los angeles. kevin, welcome to the left coast, my friend. always great to be back in the southland, my friend. when you see these numbers, you re going to say what in the world is going on? a brand-new poll is out and shows a record number of americans that say, yes, as trace pointed out, they re worse off financially since the president took office. in fact, the most ever recorded by the abc/ washington post poll in its 37 years of asking that question. now, according to the poll, 41% of americans say they a
can kind of read it at at the bottom t these are the worst numbers in 47 years. when you look at the data coming out nationally first, let s take a look at inflation. inflation out of december and january is still running at 6.5%. that is far higher than when biden took office. when you look at interest rates, that s the double whammy, right? you have consumers that are running up credit card debt. now, it s at a higher interest rate to pay on that. a number of different economic factors are cutting against president biden. trace: yeah, i think the real issue here is there are a number of americans who feel like they re forgotten by this administration. you re spending $100 million in ukraine and yet i can t pay my grocery bill or put gas in the car. they re doing a lot for a lot of other countries and a lot of other people but a lot of americans feel like they re left behind and it s exacerbated by the increasing costs.
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