not more of that base, and that is the problem. now, pence, to your point i used to be a mike pence fan. no more. i feel he should have been much more forthcoming. dan quayle shouldn t have had to say to him, no, don t do this, on january 6th. i think it ll be interesting. he really has nothing to do lose by interesting critical. it ll be interesting to see if he does that. we know christie is going to go after trump. we ll see if the permission comes, but it ain t going to come from the base because they love the guy. there s such a divide here between what republican voters think about the documents case. this is a quinnipiac poll asking do they think the taking of classified documents was intentional. 71% of republicans say it was intentional that biden did it. 48% say it was intentional that trump did it. when you look at the rest, you know, the total american population. 48% think it was intentional that biden did it. 69% think it was intentional
this because the reason they did it at 7:00 is because the networks will take it. and the abc, fox news i mean the networks, networks where people are usually watching jeopardy, they were watching president biden for 15 minutes. yeah, i think the point what doug was hitting on is this is important news. and i think when he says the republicans were acting in good faith, i think there are some people who would say this isn t really supposed to happen. they re supposed to raise the debt limit because the money has already been spent, and it s turning into this thing where it s being held hostage. essentially biden had no choice but to negotiate with republicans because otherwise the economy would have crashed and guess who would have gotten blamed? joe biden. he s being gracious and this is on brand for biden. so i think he is putting a very happy face on something that was actually pretty ugly as it was happening. to that point about putting on the happy face, this message
president wanted to tout. two points. i agree with doug that i would have liked to see him do it a little bit earlier, but i also agree with kirsten, you ve got to get the networks to take what they can. it s very important we averted crisis, and as someone who filled up her tank today in virginia for $3.43, so it was even better, the thing i m fascinated by, abby, is why isn t president biden getting more credit for what is actually a really strong economy with the job numbers and everything else we re talking about. so i think he s trying to rein people back in and say i am the guy who can get things done, i am the guy who can build consensus, you need to stick with me, we re on the right track. and that message is consistent with joe biden s history. the last time we went through was 2011.
he worked with jessie hems, strom thurman, probably not names he wants to emphasize today. this is hard wired in joe biden s dna, and this may be the last shot at bipartisanship. it was so interesting listening to the week before the deal was struck, right, progressives on capitol hill, they were so, so nervous. why isn t president biden going out and talking? and here was his reaction to that question, why is he not talking enough about this potential deal? one of the things that i hear some of you guys saying is, why didn t biden say what a good deal it is? why would biden say what a good deal it is before a vote? you think that s going to help me get it passed? no. not exactly his first rodeo. yeah. but it really it s a stylistic thing. this is how he likes to conduct business. and some people just don t like it. but it s what he wants to do. yeah. also it s the which remember
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