to help us lower inflation. what a week of contrast as president biden was racking up win after win, republicans were pushing abortion bans, social security cuts and election denial and watching their mid-term prospects begin to fade. and a texas jury just delivered a massive blow to alex jones, ordering the conspiracy theorist to pay more than $45 million in punitive damages for a first grader killed at sandy hook. i ll be joined by andrew warren, the democratically elected state attorney general who is the victim of an abuse of power by governor ron desantis. it was a great week for democrats, one that will be poised to get even better. first up the economy. after months of criticism of president biden for everything from gas prices to inflation to you name it, today we got proof that his economic policies are working with the latest blockbuster jobs report. in july job growth soared. u.s. employers added 528,000 employees, smashing expectations. and the unemployment rate
start to cross outside the base so if you re saying you re going to arrest people in texas. you mean, you re going to arrest brown and black people, right. you re telling the base of poem that they think they can attract latino voters based on some of the conservative issues. they ain t going to do it if they are talking about putting bounties on them. in texas, ruby red texas, 68% of latinos believe in abortion access, and we re talking about cross-generation. we re not even talking about when you look at the younger voter where there s the biggest opportunity among democrats, that number even skyrockets, but something that you just mentioned, this is what i think the inflation reduction bill does so beautifully t.deals with climate so we re going have the biggest climate investment in our nation s history that will help be a leader worldwide so that helps young voters because they have been tracking the administration and holding them to account. it also provides medicare prescript
he needs to get beyond that 45% threshold. it is interesting, he has been able to hold on to those folks but he realizes that he has a big challenge ahead of him. what do you make of internal numbers that makes for those losing against 2020 democratic contenders. he s almost under water in ruby red texas. the president is enormously unpopular in the country with a big portion of the electorate of the voters. that is in part why i think the president and his campaign realize he needs to turn things around, as you mentioned, shake things up a little bit. we will see the president go down to florida tomorrow, tuesday to officially kick off his reelection campaign.
buttigieg, the other headliner here, warren and harris. let s go to texas and this gets you closer to the margin of error, with biden up four and you see all the results in ruby red texas for the democrats. john, what do you make of it, or do you make nothing of it because it s too damn early? well, yeah, i think, brian, the most important number i ve heard so far from you tonight is 18. that is 18 months away from the election. i don t think you can discern a lot from this, and so at the risk of the great steve kornacki disagreeing with me which i never want to happen on national television, i will say that none of these numbers mean that much outside of obviously biden has name recognition in all these states. he does in nevada, too. he s ahead in a couple of polls. i ve seen here, though, not as much as in some others. those texas numbers are the most interesting ones to me, though, brian. if those are real, that is a warning beacon for team trump, because if texas is really like
questions in 2016. and yet even democrats who didn t like him watched him whip anyway and so i think they look now, a certain number of democrats, republicans probably just want trump to his job approval may be low, he may be coming off a rough midterm but we remember 2016. john, two states for you here, polls from michigan and texas. michigan shows biden up 12%, sanders notably also up 12. b buttigieg up 6. this gets you closer to the margin of error, with biden up four and then you see all the results in ruby red texas for the democrats. john, what do you make of it or do you make nothing of it because it s too damn early? i think, brian, the most important number i ve heard so far from you tonight is 18.