do now? i was envisioning that. congresswoman, before i let you go, can you weigh in on the back and forth between the president in a rather despicable tweet and elijah cummings coming back with dignity in his response about his district there in maryland? the president always goes back to his racist playbook and that s what he did when he tweeted elijah cummings. he brought attention to what s happening on the border and offered some moral clarity that and it just reveals who he is, and mr. trump, you re the biggest bully on twitter. thank you all very much.
the republican running against president trump is not mincing words and condemning the president s racially charged attacks. this week former massachusetts governor william weld was the only republican to join the naacp candidate forum in detroit. donald trump is a raging racist, okay? he s a complete and thorough racist. unless the republican party in washington expressly expressly rejects the racism of donald trump, they re going to come to be universally viewed as the party of racism in america. and a lot of them like to think that it s a political choice, but it s not a political choice, it s a moral choice.
the support to build the wall. that didn t happen. he has time to play with it a little here and convince people it s going to get done, but it hasn t gotten done. we had a budget deal this week that showed the deficit is expanding dramatically. the president said he was passing a tax cut that was going to pay for itself. third, we got gdp numbers on friday that showed the economy did not achieve 3% growth after the trump deregulation. all of these things are the major promises donald trump has made and none of them have been borne out. the people can see that, and that s why we see the president turn to more and more this open invocation of racism. john, the first poll after mueller s testimony is from
nationwide. should the president really be encouraging people to dismiss these numbers outright? i m just going to take a guess, but i think that he is trying to do this because when he was pitted against hillary clinton, it showed him losing. nobody really expected him to win. so people i think what he s trying to do is say, don t pay attention to these polls because i smoked hillary clinton and i m going to blow right outside biden, so don t pay any of this any attention. that s the only thing i can think of. and do you guys really think that donald trump is going to, you know, loan validity to any of these polls that show him not winning? do you really think he s going to go, that s a darn good poll and i think joe biden is going to eat my lunch. he s not going to do that, he s going to discount the polls. i think we can all agree on that. there is a quinnipiac poll in ohio that also shows joe biden ahead of the president by 8%
in spending has always been the republican party. you ve got mitch mcconnell supporting the deal. and the new yorker saying, the willingness of donald trump, mitch mcconnell and other leading republicans to sign on to such a piece of legislation only confirms what many of us have long suspected, that the gop s devotion to fiscal conservatism was a sham, a cynical political strategy rather than the expression of a core philosophical principle. it s donald trump against free trade, he s against foreign policy, he s a total isolationist, he s a reckless spender. he s not the guy who represents the values of the republican party, quite the opposite. all right, very quickly, sir, your candidacy. the president has pretty high approval ratings among republicans. i know you ve been added for a