call, it does send a signal that democrats are very galvanized behind that. and we can t wait until the 11th hour before the general election to get out the vote. so, i know of social conservative organizations that are getting bus tours ready, get out the vote efforts, volunteer groups to galvanize the pro-life community to get them out to vote. early on in the general election process. but this was certainly an opportunity for us to realize that democrats are just as motivated about this as we have been on supreme court justices for the past decade. so, both sides are really looking at that is an opportunity to buckle up and get out the vote. let me bring someone else in the conversation, cnn political commentator paul welcome to the conversation. harry enten you know, data as i call him, cnn numbers crunchers, he s an he crunch these numbers for us. he said democrats have now outperformed biden in 2020 and each of the four house special elections since roe was overturn
political commentators alice stewart and political analyst alex burns. he is the co-author of the book, this will not pass. trump, biden and the battle for america s future. good evening, one and all. thank you so much for joining. alex, we re gonna start with you. we need a reality check on the midterms, everybody s been anticipating a red wave, but that seems to have shifted significantly in the past month. what are you expecting now? don, i think there s no question that the circumstances of this campaign have changed substantially since the start of the summer. and it really does help to take a step back and look at the big picture here. the president s party almost always does terribly in the midterm elections, and democrats are probably going to have a pretty rough november. but when you think back to where we were at the beginning of june, with sky high gas prices, the biden agenda dead in the water, or so it seemed, and the republican party facing different kinds of
example. so they never got the payoff of their investment when they took out this debt, they never got the degree, they never got the higher income that supposed to go with that. or never they got a degree that s worthless. those are people that i think we definitely should be helping. but the way this plan is structured, you also get student debt forgiveness for households making up to $250,000. not only that, you get debt forgiveness for people who just graduated from an mba program and are about to start their advancement banking jobs. it doesn t account for the fact that what peoples income is today is not representative of whether future incomes are. a medical resident looks like they re not making a lot of money today, but their long term income is quite high. to really want to be spending all of this money or, god bless the work that doctors to, but are they the neediest population here? and so, i think it sort of represents a failure of imagination to think about how you could
worthless. those are people that i think we definitely should be helping. but the way this plan is structured, you also get student debt forgiveness for households making up to $250,000. not only that, you get debt forgiveness for people who just graduated from an mba program and are about to start their advancement banking jobs. it doesn t account for the fact that what peoples income is today is not representative of whether future incomes are. a medical resident looks like they re not making a lot of money today, but their long term income is quite high. to really want to be spending all of this money or, god bless the work that doctors do, but are they the neediest population here? and so, i think it sort of represents a failure of imagination to think about how you could targets those who are affected, and there are the other things the biden administration is doing to target those people, but this is a very, very expensive way to deal with a problem that ends up giving a lot of m
atmosphere. reporter: by 2030? again, we are going to announce at the right time what it is. this nation is asking for action and action now. reporter: the original new deal helped pull america out of the great depression with massive public works projects dams, grids and a civilian conservation corps over 2 million strong. it also set up the modern welfare state. so the sunrisers demand not just clean power but medicare for all, resettlement funds and climate-related jobs for the neediest population. more than anything i feel heartened in this moment. reporter: you do? yeah. reporter: you re going to look on the floor of lawmakers and think, oh, no? if we have to wait for them to agree on something we re doomed? probably, but we are not waiting on them. we are actually building a movement that will be powerful enough to make something like a green new deal a political inevitability in this country. reporter: in an age of bitter