the near term. however, the major stress being caused in the economy and disrupting the markets is a direct result of the president s policies. and i can see how some white house officials would be showing other good economic data because they don t want to contradict him, telling him this approach to trade has been highly disruptive and could, could trigger an economic recession. to that point, jonathan, as we talk about 2020 going ahead in the political calculation for the president, do you get a sense beyond his administration, inner circle, the re-election team, the campaign are going to be concerned if the numbers begin to dive? how might they alter their messaging if in fact, the numbers don t reflect an updeath assessment. it is violately important for the campaign team as well. they do think this is the number one argument he has to get a second term. he is overseeing this economic growth, the good number numbers. the numbers are still very good.
[ speaking foreign language ] please, can i just see my mother, please? please. and consider that this happened on the very same day president trump went to el paso. to meet with the survivors of a massacre targeting latinos and immigrants. the alleged killer, a white supremacist, actually told investigators his targets were mexicans. according to the arrest affidavit. before the attack, he wrote about a hispanic invasion. echoing a message the president has put out to sell his anti-immigration policies. in fact, since january, president trump s re-election team has posted more than 2,000 ads on facebook warning of an invasion and the need for a border wall. so let me be clear, in this moment, there is no invasion. there is no other.
please can i just see my mother, please? please. and consider that this happened on the very same day president trump went to el paso. to meet with the survivors of a massacre targeting latinos and immigrants. the alleged killer, a white supremacist actually told investigators his targets were mexicans. according to the arrest affidavit. before the attack he wrote about a hispanic invasion, echoing a message the president put out to sell his anti-immigration policies. in fact since january president trump s re-election team has posted more than 2,000 ads on facebook, warning of an invasion. and the need for a border wall. so let me be clear, in this moment there is no invasion. there is no other. we are all different.
last year were scrapped pause of local opposition and a $90 million price tag. but trump finally got his made-for-tv moment and made no time distributing it, tweeting out this campaign style video promptly shared wider by his re-election team. that video fueling concerns from critics that the president was making a national holiday all about himself and shattering another norm by using it for political purposes on the taxpayers dime. julie, this didn t up like people predicted, using the military as political prompts. it was a very different speech. a lot of people liked it. a lot of people liked the flyovers. we heard them here in d.c. but did it still come off as too capitol hill for some? there was a lot of consternation over the whole idea of trump doing this. he did skip to the script. he has done that on occasion. i wouldn t get comfortable with
2015. i don t think it is a surprise to anyone that changed. but i have to imagine it is alarming for the people who are on his re-election team that he s not taking it seriously. his favor ability numbers and polling numbers and the fact he s lagging in mid western states that were important to his bid in 2016 and that should be the takeaway not coming up with 15 different excuses why we should dismiss the polls and why they are wrong. this is classic trump that the pollsters would be fired on the way to the campaign kickoff when the issue isn t their work or the leaking, the issue for everybody who supports the president is you re in trouble. right. as opposed to taking responsibility and saying, oh, there may be some alarms going off right now, we re going to address this in the campaign launch, we re going to be playing aggressively in these key states instead trump decides to fire people who he thinks provide a scapegoat for him. and also this helps biden. the fact that biden