minimum wage, free tuition at public colleges. the renewal project to rebuild the country s infrastructure. there are progressive ideas. is it enough, do you think, for biden to pass the kind of primary progressive litmus test that seems to be out there? yeah. there s certainly a balancing act that the vice president and his team are trying to walk. as he s said in the past, i ll put my progressive credentials up against anyone. he s said he s no bernie sanders populi populist, and as it was said yesterday, he s not a democratic socialist. his pitch is very much centered on the middle class, the types of voters that donald trump successfully won over in 2016 that put him in the white house thanks to states like michigan, wiscons wisconsin, and pennsylvania. that s very much the appeal that the vice president is planning to make. they believe that he has a deep reservoir of support across the party. also among african americans, a key demographic we ve seen in polling. they view him a
whether the polls are right, i m watching florida to find out, are we going to have surprises where republicans overperform. scott won twice, just barely, against weak democratic opponents. his strength as a candidate might have been overrated by republicans. we are talking about senate and house races and gubernatorial races and down the bals on, legislative races and a lot of chambers they are trying to flip. the chambers have gone back and forth. some places there is a real chance. michigan, minnesota and wisconsin. that is very much dependent on what happens at the top of the ticket and the enthusiasm on each side. the wisconsin race in and of itself is fascinating. 3% unemployment in the state of wiscons wisconsin. that s not just trump. people want change. we had a great night. we look at the economy as an issue and visit polling places.
divisiveness. and before i go, i have to say happy birthday and we have the governor s cup winner wine. oh, the wine. and the barboursville wine. and tell alan that you have some great virginia wine coming to celebrate the birthday. thank you very much. and save me, please, joe in wiscons wisconsin. mike? yeah, andrea. sorry, i am laughing along with your conversation with terry mcauliff, and what we have heard from him is similar to joe biden on the stage behind me at the university of wisconsin madison, and he talked about with me a crowd of college students his own time om com coming of age i civil rights movement, and he said i am sick and tired the of being sake and tirick and tired
wiscons wisconsin. before some reason it s in this bill. let s go right now to steve rattner at 30-rock. steve? congressman, i m also a little mystified about the hedge fund thing. this is a 500-page bill with tiny provisions including small taxes on large endowments. let me move onto another subject which is that you have been as leader of the freedom caucus, outspoken in your opposition to the national debt and voted against national debt increases. we have in front of us a proposal that would increase by its own calculations, the national debt, by a trillion and a and a half dollars over the next ten years. how can you support a bill that does that given all your past an situation to debt? well, i can tell you that it s not just past opposition. it s certainly ongoing opposition, and you re right with my record on being a deficit hawk. really, there are two issues working against each other.
przbyla and matthew nessbaum. what does this job s announcement mean and how much credit should the president get for it? straight up, this is a very big win for the state of wiscons wisconsin, talking about 3,000 or 13,000 jobs and the 10,000 construction jobs associated. as governor scott walker said it willb build quite an ecosystem with a lot of jobs around it and they will be able to attract talent. that s a very, very big posit e positive. the chairman of foxconn came to visit the president weeks ago. there s going to be around $3 billion of tax breaks associated with this. that is to be expected. if you think any company is going to bring a big plant here you re going to see tax breaks. foxconn is interesting this is a company that received a lot of criticism, or apple did, because they re a supplier of apple, how they treat their workers. nuts and bolts, plain and simple if it s a commitment to do