never said any he has been putting out statement after statement the past couple of weeks, going very hard against this infrastructure deal. and if you go to the united states senate and ask republicans about it, it s like what statements? no. they re just completely oblivious to it. i didn t see that tweet. right. once you re not in office any anymore, but also as senator portman was saying, the sort of hipocrisy of someone strongly in favor because he knows how popular it is with the american people. that s why he pushed it. because democrats and republicans on a voter level really support the idea of infrastructure spending and so for the former president it looks very nakedly like he knows this is popular. he wanted to do it because it was popular. if the current president does it and it s possibpular, it s to j biden s credit and he doesn t want that win.
over my time in the governorship and in congress, when i talked to a small business person, they talked about how they struggled to make it, or talking the a family, they talked about how they struggled to balance the family checkbook. either those conversations were real and money matters to folks, or they were not real. there s a real disconnect between what you hear at the political level where nobody talks about debt, deficit and the voter level wherein people have sort of left that issue alone because nobody is talking about it. but i think it is central. i think indeed the storm is coming and if you look at the numbers we re at unprecedented points in american history given where we are on debt and peacetime, deficits and peacetimes. and what it means is there s always a straw that breaks the camel s back and i think that we are at that point and if now we begin to go into a downturn and we re at an economic expansion that s about double the length of a normal upturn basically of
if i m wrong it will be shorted lived and the question is this. all of those thousands of conversations i had with people over my type in the governorship and congress where i talked to small business person and talking about how they struggled to make it or a family talking about how they struggle to balance the family checkbook, either the conversations were real and money matters to folks or they were not real so i think there s a real disconnect between what you hear at the political level where nobody talks about debt, deficit and the financial conundrum and the voter level wherein people left that issue alone. i think it is central. i think indeed the storm is coming and if you look at the numbers we re at unprecedented points in american history given where we are on debt and peacetime, deficits and it mean always a straw that breaks the camel s back and point and if n begin to go into a downturn and we re at an economic expansion
between this midterm and 2020 but the next president will have a unique opportunity to fix this once and for all. we can move forward. to maria s points, these immigrants using assistance, they are using it for their american children. is that the issue that sort of that far right audience is bighting onto that those children don t deserve to be americans and that s where we got to president trump s argument that last week seemed absurd to us, but is it not absurd to lots of people out there. he s jumped the shark the last two weeks. if you look in areas where there s a lot of immigrants or even people here illegally, those voters in those areas are moving back to the democrats or rejecting that message. in lily white states they are holding firm with the president. he jumped the shark. we re seeing a refrtrenchment bk to the voter level. you tweeted a lot about this.
two months ago. we munkerred down we hunkered down. we are the first campaign to have county chairs in iowa. we are going to organize voter by voter in iowa. make the case there and come back and do well in the other early states. but you do it grassroots level, voter by voter level. i ll be back there this weekend. martha: it was a tough environment out there last night. a lot of people were jumping in and fighting for their time up there. we just got the list of ranking of how much time people ended up getting. you were at the bottom. in three hours you were able to fight your way in there to speak 8 minutes 24 seconds. was that your fault or cnn s fault. i was asked three questions