over the past three years, as chief of staff of the air force, general brown has become known for his signature approach, accelerate, change or lose. general, you re right on. as i often said, our world is at an inflection point where the decisions we make today will determine the course of our world for decades to come. to keep the american people safe, we have to adapt and act quickly. we have to manage our competition with china and meet the reality of renewed aggression in europe. we need to make sure we retain our competitive edge in an age where emerging technologies from ai to 3-d printing could fundamentally change the character of conflict. with general brown as chairman, i know i ll be able to rely on his advice and i ll also be able to have a leader who is unafraid to speak his mind. as someone who will deliver a message that needs to be hard and will always do the right thing when it s hard. that s the number one quality a president needs in a chairman. that s the
have good, sound messaging and create a narrative around that, i think that mobilizes voters. it s a good tactic on desantis part to say we re going to deepen we re going to deepen the majority, but it s probably not realistic. for democrats, you have to act as though it could happen. so, you know, we talk about animating issues. let s talk about them from something you know very well, which is not just the messaging but the grassroots. you go door to door, you get people who are animated by these issues and you talk to people about these specific issues and it s a lot different than it was when you and i when i started covering politics and you got into politics, you hope you hit on the right thing. now they look at their ipad and these folks going door to door know everything about the issues that, you know, is it education? somebody in this household is a teacher, right? how do they do that? how do they take what are animating issues and animate? right.
candidates dealt with this in their own community with a mass murder there, his breakout moment wasn t about attacking another candidate or donald trump directly, although it s related. he said, hey, we need to do this. here he is speaking more about it. take a look. it s not voluntary. i want to make sure that we make the distinction here. it is mandatory. it will be the law. you will be required to comply with the law. as with many of our laws, we don t go door to door searching people s homes to see if they are, in fact, breaking the law. we expect people to comply with the law. on the policy, is your view that if you ban this and you take these guns away, fewer people, fewer kids will be murdered each year? well, you know, here s where good sound policy sometimes diverges from good sound messaging. i have to be honest with you. it is a sound policy to ban assault weapons. i support it, i co-sponsored the
on twitter. he has the bully pulpit. he gets in the rose garden in front of reporters. he talks about all these other things. all i m saying is the stock market, the big four indices are one or 2% of the highest. it s done well since the election. we are not in a recession. other areas around the globe are suspect. we are doing great compared to them. yet the message is not getting out. i think if they get some sound messaging, straightforward, get away from all the stuff, i bet you the poll numbers will go up. it hasn t happened. neil: with voters, we look at national poll numbers, but it is you know and as reported, these are decided state-by-stat state-by-state. the president, some crucial rust belt states, turned this election and won. in those same states, he s got a