politician. ran an incredibly disciplined campaign. which sets a kind of blueprint for other democrats running in these hotly contested red or purple states. warnock avoided getting baited into culture war fights on the conservatives. and instead, he maintained discipline. focused on popular, progressive issues like prescription drug reform, student debt relief, and infrastructure building. kept hammering on those. and of course, it also helps the democratic party was able to pass popular legislation for warnock to vote for and campaign on. it is not a given that a sitting president and the presidents party in congress will be able to actually deliver things. tangible. thanks things they can then run on. things that are popular. but the democrats did that these past two years. and i think it is a big reason why 1:00. join me now, one of the people behind the democrats stronger than expected midterm showing. senate majority leader chuck schumer, democrat of new york.
one-page document. the post says it is purposely short on policy specifics, so it is kind of a sub of pan flip but there s discussion of inflation which as we reported has been a problem for the biden administration, and protecting freedom. the specifics if they went beyond the page might be bad politics because much of the gop is running on things that are unpopular, from health care and drug price issues to the backlash, you have also a secret item that was accidentally published. this was a version of the gop blueprint. interesting here they note that the document in that material goes after prescription drug reform and would open the door to something that many oppose, including in the middle and on some of the right, especially among seniors, which is cutting social security and medicare. the new blueprint also does not mention what one of the most prominent trump defenders have been pushing, national abortion ban. that s what lindsey graham has
you know, we know what they re trying to do. they really are trying to pull back social security and medicare, and who reads ari, who leads with, we really want to do away with this prescription drug reform because the seniors, the people who vote, they don t want that. they don t want to have their drugs be cheaper, you know. it is just like who is telling them yes. what to do? as i always emphasize, there are some issues that are difficult and you really try to understand the good faith view on the other side. yes. and then there are others that are just the rank corruption, in this case of republican politicians who are saying, you should pay more for medical drugs you need right. so that big pharma can be more profitable. hard for me to see where that s a campaign message. i don t know either. i really do, i find it very interesting because it is a terrible campaign message, obviously we know. i would think even i mean i know even republican seniors are
as you want to ask, we re not going to comment on the investigation. the justice department s pursuing it. fair enough. the president, though, did make a sharp turn in terms of highlighting the threat that this version of republicans, which i m guessing to him is somewhat unrecognizable, knowing of his history of close friendships across the aisle. talk about the importance of his message last night. well, look, we re entering campaign season. we ve spent 19 months delivering for the american people. we ve spent time working with republicans and democrats in congress to deliver. we ve had our democratic allies just deliver a huge win for the american people, standing up to the special interests, standing up to big pharma to deliver prescription drug reform, standing up to the climate deniers to deliver the largest climate change legislation in history, but now it is campaign season, and what you heard the president say at the first rally of the campaign for him was to draw a clear
but i think isaac makes a great point here in terms of how do you sell this? how do you make this land? what is the plan here because they have about 85 days to turn things around in a pretty major way. one of the biggest things is the white house still views the best message for the president, the best message for democrats heading into the mid materials is all about how these legislative accomplishments apply to people s pocketbooks. so it s about the economy the still. even though that s one of the reasons biden s numbers are still low and remain low. but they keep hammersing home gas prices have gone down and look at all the things we ve done like the prescription drug reform because you ask them, are you going to shift it all and talk about democracy or the investigations the former president is under, and they pretty much say, no, they re