he wears well in a cultural sense perhaps. i don t think he wears well in a policy sense long-term for the democratic base who does not want nerve to get them off. barack obama in 07, benefited greatly from that was a highly skilled field he ran against. the very smart successful people sort of punished him aly bit and forced him to be a policy person. it was not just bill clinton. richardson was the after thought and that was a very good candidate. who could make beto o rourke in this deal? i think biden if he gets in. in obama was helped so much by that field and made him stronger in the general election against mccain. what i am looking for from beto
warren see the bad news on the horizon, here is antonia felix, she is the author of elizabeth warren, her fight, her life. over the break, an interesting question, elizabeth warren is known as a policy person, right? this is how she kind of got where she was from her time as a bankruptcy professor, attorney in the crisis panel to now as a senator. does that pla i in a time of president trump, if you will? it plays now more than ever. here we have a candidate among this really exciting group of democratic candidates. we have someone who is very strong on policy, on substance and the groundwork for that is laid in her 34-year career as an academic as you noted who has been studying the economics of the middle class. she is proposing big ideas on
chaos and instability. to me, the question is when this becomes really obvious to everyone that you elect a president like this and this is what you get. the government is shut down. american foreign policy is in chaos. when that becomes manifest in people s lives which is slowly starting to happen. heather, react to that. i go back to asking max rose about whether people perceive what s wrong. the midterm elections show people perceive this is absolutely a president and a party that no longer has authority moral authority or policy authority with the american people. it was a record win for the democrats. again, a record low approval rating for the president. record numbers of days on the golf course. that s one thing we can add to it. filling up the guinness book here. i m glad you mentioned the deficit. as a policy person, that s one piece i m just agog about the fact that the republican party
giveaways to the billionaires, to big corporations. and a harder and harder squeeze on working families. student loan debt is up another $100 billion since over just the last year. you know, it s like the thing is tilted badly in favor of the rich and the powerful, and against everyone else. and the tilt is getting steeper and steeper, and that s why we have to be in this fight. i highlighted when i brought you on before the break, i highlighted the consistency of your message and how you were an academic expert before you were efficient a political figure. you were a policy person in washington before you were ever an elected official campaigning on those issues. this has been your life s work, to undo the tilt of the system. and yet, when people go to the ballot box, vote for the democratic primary in 2020 and
different place. we ve lived through two years of donald trump as president. and we re to the point, we have lived through two years of one scammer and grifter after another, running federal agencies, running our federal government. and we have lived through two more years of giant tax giveaways to the billionaires, to big corporations. and a harder and harder squeeze on working families. student loan debt is up another $100 billion since over just the last year. you know, it s like the thing is tilted badly in favor of the rich and the powerful, and against everyone else. and the tilt is getting steeper and steeper, and that s why we have to be in this fight. i highlighted when i brought you on before the break, i highlighted the consistency of your message and how you were an academic expert before you were efficient a political figure. you were a policy person in washington before you were ever