joe biden has been restrained but his challenge could be his highest poll number will be the first day of his campaign because they re already going after him. i think his biggest disadvantage is it s no longer four years ago. where were you four years ago? right. so we re already seeing democrats being very critical of the obama administration. every video from the anita hill hearing and everything before is going to seem terribly out of of step in 2020. i think it s tough when you re going against the cosmos has shifted. and i ve been obsessively reporting on what joe is up to. people in his innercircle are calling around the country
beto o rourke, he s quite good on social media, very authentic if you look at the way he icuse the different platforms. it s a great indicator and it loops into what joe was saying at the top of the show, democrats need to be aware of how much the green deal and socialism are playing early on. it s sort of catching fire with the base and all these candidates are endorsing it. and there s a consequence to it. i think that might be one of the reasons trump s numbers are starting to tick back up, it s the juxtaposition of him versus socialism and there s a lot of things in the green deal that will scare moderate voters and freak out some democratic voters. i feel like jim nailed something that i talk about a lot in know your value, and that
ohio. party voters come home when you get close to the election. everybody knew there would be some tightening of the big democratic edge, i wonder if you think the brett kavanaugh hearings were kind of a break point that has really helped the republicans as they go into these final few weeks of this campaign? i think it did solidify their base. these judicial appointments with republicans are a huge issue. i think it woke up their base. the energy level increased in the polls. already-energized base on our side for the kavanaugh issue and a variety of other issues. it helped tighten things up. still two weeks left and really important issues. the economic issues, you know the issues around health care, what joe said earlier about the tax cut we should be campaigning on we ll repeal 83% of the tax cut.
shutdown in 2013, it cost our economy $1.5 billion a day. that s how harmful a shutdown is. but even more profound is the harm that it does to public confidence in government. in our ability to be leaders of this country. joe and i worked very hard in leading the effort of the commonsense coalition in 2013 to reopen government, and we talked about reconvening our group, which we did last week after government shutdown. in fact, our first meeting was friday. we started out with about 17 senators attending the first meeting in our office, and the number grew ultimately to 25
i don t believe that either leader on either side should have the powers that they have. that s me speaking that two people, whoever it be mitch or chuck, whoever is in the majority or the minority, should be in a position of that much power to be able to set an agenda or stop an agenda when you have a force as strong as ours moving in a direction, and i tell you, they listened. that s what moved it because we weren t backing up. we weren t going to be beat into submission, we re going to do this and that. but how do we make the place work better? how come committee chairs don t have input? how come the appropriation bills aren t working? how do we get to this point? with that being said, we were always optimistic. susan? let me add to what joe has said. first of all, every single difficult negotiation i ve ever been in in the 21 years i ve been privileged to serve in the senate has had these peaks and