and i m bianna golodryga. the fight for every vote under way with just five days until election day. so far more than 30 million voters have already cast their ballots in 46 states with the most seen in texas and florida. that s a pace that looks like if may exceed the historic turnout of 2018. both president biden and former president trump are making those closing arguments for their parties from the campaign trail. trump is planning four rallies in five days starting in iowa today to slam democrats over inflation and crime. president biden head west. soon lands in new mexico. may echo his consistent call to voters to eject election deniers and preserve democracy. our phil mattingly is covering president biden and jeb bellamy in iowa. why is president biden in new mexico? reporter: the two events he s attending. one a speech about student loans pap clear effort. we ve seen the white house pursuing this over the course of the last several weeks directed at trying to
they don t spend like drunken sailors, they spend like a drunken navy. the difference between you and i, i think the democrats are drunken sailor spending. the republicans are doing that. a couple points i made there. you know, your republican leadership are the people who abandoned obama care just as soon as they passed that bone they threw out on repealing it. they have not pursued that issue they promised their base they would do. their the ones of freddy and fannie. you know why? both sides were caught up in the corruption. let me bring your focus back here, because i think this is really important. i think what s happening here, if you a lot polls, the president s poll numbers have never been lower. every metric that we have for the president on the economy hugh, i ll throw this to you is negative. independents now, he s down to 34%. the independents are the ones who elected him.
they don t spend like drunken sailors, they spend like a drunken navy. the difference between you and i, i think the democrats are drunken sailor spending. the republicans are doing that. a couple points i made there. you know, your republican leadership are the people who abandoned obama care just as soon as they passed that bone they threw out on repealing it. they have not pursued that issue they promised their base they would do. their the ones of freddy and fannie. you know why? both sides were caught up in the corruption. let me bring your focus back here, because i think this is really important. i think what s happening here, if you a lot polls, the president s poll numbers have never been lower. every metric that we have for the president on the economy hugh, i ll throw this to you is negative. independents now, he s down to 34%. the independents are the ones who elected him.
now. all want to deal with it. david: vicki, go ahead and respond. i didn t well, i didn t use the word angry but i was talking specifically about confidence. and american businesses, big businesses are sitting on a lot of cash. that s a sign of a lack of confidence. they don t want to spend. consumer confidence is remarkably low. that s what i think this administration needs to address by saying, hey, we are not going to increase your tax burden. we are going to do things to decrease your tax burden. not that drunking sailor spending you are in favor of. quickly david, i beg your pardon. dave bernanke already said purchases of treasuries use confidence in the u.s. ability to control rates, you will see those bond rates turn on a dime. let s get off of bond rates for a second. the fact is the confidence, the american public does want some confidence that their government is going to start acting sensibly, not spending like drunken sailors. wouldn t that give us some confid
though internal polling that the mccain campaign has shows him up among core republicans over ten points. he s going to be just fine in that situation. mccain always has been a maverick. we know that. he was a maverick, for example, against spending and what he called pork. the drunken sailor spending in washington. now everybody is for it. now everybody is a maverick. it s not just john mccain by himself. he was certainly a maverick when he supported comprehensive education reform, when he voted against the bush tax cuts back in 2001 and 2003, he was a maverick. campaign finance reform teaming up with russ feingold. those are from a republican standpoint pretty maverick ideas. from time to time, precisely 9% to 10% of the time. he voted with george w. bush 90% of the time. when he was calling himself a maverick of the campaign, the maverick family objected. the mavericks are a family.