campaigns. he was the head of the republican senate election committee and he wrote it down. rick scott! he s got the plan. sunset everything. and mike lee and the rest of them are saying it s a lie, when they know, it s the truth! and mike lee himself called for, quote, pulling up social security, medicare, and medicaid by the roots. let me say that again. mike lee, so shocked and stunned and deeply saddened, called for pulling up his words, pulling up social security, medicare, and medicaid by the roots and getting rid of them. take a look. i m here right now to tell you one thing. that you probably haven t ever heard from a politician. it will be my objective to phase out social security. to pull it up by the roots and
they re saying the quiet parts out loud. and then they act shocked last night when joe biden calls them on what they ve said! yeah, i think this is a theme, though, right? when you stop doing policy and you just do politics, where everything is a zero-sum game, the other people are the enemy, then anything can be justifiable, any talking point, and you don t have any policy to undergird what you re saying. so they know that it s unpopular on a national stage to be cutting social security and medicare. he says he wants to destroy it. phase it out. he knows it s unpopular on the national stage, but when he s sitting in front of a bunch of donors, who are fiscally conservative, he will say privately what he will never say out loud. i think that characterizes generally where we are with the republican party. they talk about abortion, we have to ban abortion. then they see it s not to popular. maybe we need a nuanced approach. now they re all talking about a nuanced approach. you ha
one thing. that you probably haven t ever heard from a politician. it will be my objective to phase out social security. to pull it up by the roots and get rid of it. hear, hear. people who advise me politically always tell me that s dangerous, and i tell them, in that case, it s not worth my running. that s why i m doing this, to get rid of that. medicare and medicaid are of the same sort, they need to be pulled up. so, senator, you have mike lee, first of all, acting shocked. he says biden looks confused. he was the one who looks confused. he s like, who s ever proposed sunsetting social security and medicare? first of all, mike lee does. he doesn t even want to sunset it, he wants to destroy it according to that clip. and then you have the head of the republican senate campaign, rick scott, who put it on paper,
not going to be moved into being threatened to default on the debt if we don t respond. folks so, folks, as we all apparently agree, social security, medicare is off the books now. right? they re not to be discussed. all right. whoa. listen, okay, so if you re at home an you re not as much of a nerd as me and you don t follow all this stuff, let me tell you something, they were booing reality, republicans. joe biden said that one administration raised the debt more than first 220 years of
one party turns the state other to another party. i find it fascinating that biden is going into florida. is there a chance he actually invests a little for democrats there, gives it a shot? yeah. one of the most closely watched decisions the white house makes after the state of the union, attention is on you. you take it on the road. wisconsin arguably the most important swing state on the map. tomorrow florida. democrats and white house aides i talked to say the white house at least wants to put their toe there. and see what happens. yes, florida has trended away from democrats the last couple of cycles that we know. as just mentioned governor desantis walked to re-election, but there were florida democrats who complained about the lack of resources who said, hey look, this could have been a lot closer than it was. biden lost there in 2020 to donald trump. they feel like their message can resonate in florida as well, particularly medicare, social security protections. they can pain