What does the president want people to remember today? reporter: hey there, jose. it was a forceful speech, an emotional speech. as you said, it was one that focused largely on several themes including truth and also history. that was part of the reason his campaign chose this venue which, as you said, was the site of the horrible massacre in 2019 where nine black worshippers were killed. it was also the site during the 1800s at the height of slavery this congregation was forced to meet in secret. the president today saying this election is a choice between lies and truth essentially, calling out the former president s supporters on january 6th who did not want to accept election results. he forcefully called donald trump a loser. he said a lot was at stake in this election. let s play some of what he said about truth. we shall know the truth and the truth shall set us free.
Trying to get his responses to them on a daily basis. on a regular basis, the president has chosen not to. he s tried to focus over the last seven months on issues like the economy. but the biggest strategic difference in the way that the biden team views this election and views politics is that you can t get into a fight. you know this, katy, perhaps as well as anybody, with donald trump on a daily basis, without sacrificing your ability to set your own agenda. so this does represent what the campaign says is not a shift but a sharpening of the message that, as joe biden said, president biden will be the voting issue of 2024. will we protect our democracy, will we secure our democracy moving forward. it was even notable how he called donald trump a loser, katy, in talking about multiple times his own victory. and i think this is the beginning of what we can expect to hear more of in the weeks and months ahead. we have no time left.
look, he s not even clearing that bar. i want voters to listen to this. it is most likely that by the time we get on the debate stage on august 23rd the front-runner will be out on bail in four different jurisdictions, florida, washington, georgia and new york. out on bail, kasie. i mean, that doesn t even clear the low-class bar that donald trump is advocating for. look, i m running for president because i want to do the big things. i want to make sure that we fix our entitlement programs. i want to make sure that we give parents ed karnl freedom to decide whether kid goes to school across this country. there are big things we need to do here to lower inflation and to create jobs that are good paying and help people to save money, and he s sitting there at a rally for two hours last night
President of the united states issue the current president had a 40% approval rating and a 40-year high inflation, he had a historic, successful midterm as the democrats did outperforming republicans and expectations. so we would be glad to see him on the ballot because what we know is that numbers flee from him. scott? you heard it. they want to run against donald trump. i came out here prepared to quarrel with you today, but i agree with much of what you just said because don t worry. we ll get there, but i agree. a lot of what is happening is not going to fly with the average independent swing voter who decides elections in pennsylvania, george a arizona, wisconsin, places like that, and as much as republicans are digging in their heels to defend him over it, they re not the ones who will decide the next president of the united states and it will be the swing voters in the states that by the way, donald trump lost, and so i have a hard time seeing how we re going to reconc
We are going to be putting people back to work in jobs that have real wages, pensions, benefits and that s a transformation of the economy not just a band-aid, but i get it. people listened to donald trump, say that he was going to re-industrialize the economy. he was going to bring back manufacturing jobs and he didn t, and so there is a skepticism from the american electorate that presidents who say that they re serious about bringing good jobs back are going to do it, but i think as you continue to see these repeated quarters, these repeated good news stories about the american economy being transformed and people getting back to work that joe biden will get credit for that. he should because we are seeing an absolute revolution of our economy right now. the kind of good paying jobs that used to be the foundation of america are coming back and that s due to joe biden s policies. i need to ask you about something that shook the senate this week and that was republican leader mitch