and high points and not so high points as chronicled by any press that covers a presidential campaign but take us back in time to donald trump s state of mine of joe biden and why he would have wanted these kind of investigations. biden always hung over trump and the orbit as the biggest possible threat in 2020 before biden entered the campaign because he was seen as having unique appeal to the white working class voter who is form so much of trump s coalition in 2016. biden born and raised in pennsylvania, he was seen as someone to win back pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. some of the states and compete with trump and why the trump orbit so concerned about the potential candidacy back a year ago or earlier than that. there s another thing, too, that biden represents and that s the obama legacy. sort of a north star for trump has been undoing the obama agenda, undoing the obama legacy
who are mainly republicans. we see this pretty much every single election cycle, this rush to the middle. as soon as we take these somewhat progressive instances early on maybe in the summertime and then there is a rush to appeal to a demographic that nt would vote democrat. and they are hearing the foot steps amidst the dim and noise of the impeachment proceedings, they are hearing the foot steps of donald trump, they are seeing the poll that says 67% of democrats are feeling uneasy about the election cycle. and they are also seeing the new york times poll that says that donald trump is testing very, very well against flothref the four potential candidates in battleground states and they are getting nervous. so they are rushing to the middle to get that white working class voter and ignoring us.
thank you sofi. sofi thank you, we love you. we re about a year out from the 2020 election. there are a lot of people understandably obsessed with what to expect. people are obsess ofly looking at swing state polls, breaking down head to head matchups, trying to figure out what exactly does a white working class voter in michigan want? what do they want from a presidential candidate? but this week those people did not need to rely on polls.
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clear many this moment in our politics that attitudes about the economy narrowly drawn are really what s driving our politics. cultural divisions are more significant. now, that presents an opportunity and a challenge for people like elizabeth warren to make the argument, bernie sanders makes this too, joe biden the make the case as well, that working class voter, you re not getting from president trump what you thought you were getting and try shift that debate back to the economy. because, as peter said, we do have low unemployment, we have high stock prices, but we have not seen a fundamental change in economic opportunity for the average worker. and if democrats can shift the debate on that terrain to those workers, they re going to be advantaged. but right now that doesn t seem to be where the debate is actually taking place with those voters. so president trump took to twitter yesterday to tag virginia s successes, including having the, quote, best unemployment and economic