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Who i don t think many breakfast conversations were this morning, what do you think about the filibuster. doesn t mean it s not important and the president shouldn t highlight republican opposition. those are fundamental issues to the country. in the middle of this covid funk, that s not issue number one for most americans but it is issue number one for a lot of the president s party. and midterm election year where he needs to motivate people to vote, convince them he s in the fight. this is one of the issues where the democrats got too far out over their skis about expectations. what can we do? joe biden the day after the election thought nancy pelosi is speaker, mitch mcconnell as the senate republican leader. he thought he would be the bipartisan guy, the bridge between a democratic house and republican senate. then bam, democrats to their credit win these two georgia senate races but it s still 50/50. you can t get much done in this town 50/50, but what did they do? we ll pass vot ....
Restore normalcy and crush covid and rebuild the economy in better shape than it was before. he never had the level of intense support that a donald trump had in the election or that some of his rivals had in the democratic primary. and he never had a particularly deep, strong level of credibility on the economy. he was not an economic restructuring candidate or economic manager candidate. what you see now is those dynamics all coming to a head at the same time. if i were the white house, i d be looking at the inflation numbers and other dynamics in the economy that kaitlyn mentioned and hope you can persuade voters not to look past inflation but to embrace a more optimistic mood that look for all the hassles in your daily life, there s a lot trending in a better direction. you make a key point. how do you get people in a more optimistic mood. that s to convince them they can come out of the covid funk. it s having an economic impact. the supply chain issues and it s ....
Things you can t ignore. your prices of food is going up. rent, electricity, gas, those are things that people live with and function with every single day. it s striking when you look at the 56% say nothing. they disapprove of all. whether democrat or republican or independent. they passed the american rescue plan which had a lot of help for american families in it. a bipartisan infrastructure plan, still just starting to kick in, buthat was an enormous big deal. yet americans don t feel it yet. democrats are fighting in washington but more of it is the covid funk. in the midterm election year. a lot of confidence in president biden s ability to deal with the economy? right? in march, 67% of democrats did. in his own party, that is down to 44%. independents, his those who have confidence in his ability has dropped from 20 to 10. republicans were never on board but this number right here. in a midterm election year, your own party is having doubts about issue number one, that s a w ....