about this agreement. but his primary audience is actually going to be that undecided swing voter in the middle, and really try to sell it to that voter. right, and chris hayes, this is a strange thing for biden. is that the fundamentals of the economy are good, and yet people feel bad. and so he s constantly in this position of trying to sell reality to people who are sort of defying reality with their sort of feel, their sort of feelings about things. to lawrence s point, i was a little surprised, precisely for the reason you enunciated. okay, we nade it. like not a speech giving occasion, but i think what it s going to be, to your point, it s going to be about the biden economy. i do think, look, inflation has been bad for lots of people. it has eaten into real gains. people also had a higher level of personal disposable income and that s come down as the sort of recovery has happened, as that money has sort of been spent down. there s a lot of reasons people do feel u
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negativity behind. with the gop roster set to expand this week, how many candidates will make the debates and will their strategies to topple the front-runner work? and caught on tape. cnn learns the justice department has audio of the former president talking about a classified document he kept after his term. are charges coming? i ll speak to ranking democrat of house oversight committee jamie raskin, next. plus, making the case. president biden celebrates an unexpected political win. i was told the days of bipartisanship are over. did democrats get the better deal? people are furious. key negotiator omb t shallond young and ken buck coming up. hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is on the trail, riding hot. it s campaign season and republican white house hopefuls hit the trail saturday in iowa for senator joni ernst annual roast and ride. in some cases wearing leather motorcycle vests, as they try to position themselves ahead of a
he is 80. polling shows 65% of voters believe he s too old to effectively serve another four years and renewing scrutiny around the dnc not holding primary debates with jack dorsey tweeting this. open the democrat primaries and debates. this isn t fair to anyone. let s bring in our panel. joe concha, columnist at the mess messenger. juan williams and lee carter. welcome to you all. joe, to you first. it seems like the media says the gop is pouncing on joe biden s fall. let s play a little montage and get your response. okay. his age is an issue here. the republicans immediately jumped on this. they blasted it all over social media. givening voters concerns, this is not an image that his critics are pouncing on. this is not pouncing, this is relevant to this campaign. poll after poll shows that people are concerned about joe biden s age. as you said, other polls showing 2/3s of voters saying that they don t believe he has the physical or mental fitness or the the job
normally would have people fearful the federal reserve will be inclined to start hiking rates again in the face of this. again, that was not a worry for the markets. maybe with a strong jobs report, there s a lot less worry about a decision and a lot more hope that we could dodge one altogether. welcome. i m neil cavuto. because you ve got that juxtaposed against republican candidates criss-crossing battle ground states talking about how awful things are. we re following the principals and how the economy is going and the debt ceiling package and relief that we have a package and avoided default fed into this rally today. let s go to rich edson in pella, iowa. how that is going down there. rich? good afternoon, neil. got a couple of republican candidates in iowa today. many more coming tomorrow for senator joni ernst s roast and ride in des moines about an hour drive from pella. governor ron desantis will be at that roast and ride event. he s finishing up a full day of camp