numbers after gaining it early and quite major endorsements of the nation s most powerful unions, including the american federation of teachers and the american federation of state, county, and municipal employees. 13 million new jobs since i became president. that s more jobs and a little over two years than any president has created in a four-year term. the unemployment term i ve seen record lows for black employments and hispanic unemployment as well. we have created 800,000 manufacturing jobs. president biden also touted his actions on climate, on health care, and lowering the cost of prescription drugs. it was a pitch to the american people for why he should be elected again. president biden did not do is give a single ounce of attention to his recently indicted predecessor. this nbc s mike reports, the president and his administration will maintain that, focusing solely on the issues. the president is saying it s not him that s accomplished all of this, and un
knew made it happen. organizers, door knocker s, people powered politics. my very first job in politics was as a field organizer in virginia for barack obama in 2008. i learn more from politics in that one single job than any other job i ve ever had. that s why in order to be a good organizer you have to know the policy backwards and forwards, and you have to know the talking points as well as the defenses. and you apply that knowledge to the very most important skill talking to people. you have to be able to have a conversation with another human being. imagine that. truly a lost art. my first guest tonight will be too young organizers, 19 and 21 years young who have thrown themselves into this fight. one knocking on doors in kansas and one knocking down congressman matt gates all wrote some raising millions of funds for reproductive freedom. and then we ll be joined by the old lauren gallagher who s been working for change every day in georgia. change that we can all pote
for starters, they scheduled the vote during a typically low turnout august primary instead of during the general election in november, because yesterday s primary focused mostly republican candidates running against each other and would presumably attract mostly republican voters. they made the language of the ballot measures so dense and confusing that the normal person would be hard-pressed to decipher at first glance what s a yes or a no vote even meant. republican groups even blasted out a barrage of misleading text messages to kansas voters the day before the vote that made it sound like voting yes would protect a woman s right to choose when in fact the opposite is true. but despite all those obstacles, voter turnout was massive, far from the usual trickle of voters for an august primary in a midterm here. turnout approached nearly presidential levels. and the votes to defeat the antiabortion measure didn t just come from the urban and suburban counties where most of
my first guest tonight will be two young organizers, 19 and 21 years young who have thrown themselves into this fight. one knocking on doors in kansas and one knocking down congressman matt gaetz all wrote some raising millions of funds for reproductive freedom. and then we ll be joined by the old lauren gallagher who s been working for change every day in georgia. change that we can all potentially benefit from. last night, voters in kansas voted for choice by an 18-point margin. in a state where donald trump beat joe biden by 15 points. political notes if, the politics of roe proved wrought for republicans in kansas, it s going to be even more treacherous for the gop in swinger, more moderate swath of the country. senate majority leader chuck schumer echoed that exact message earlier today. the strong pro-choice turnout we saw last night in kansas will continue well into the fall, and republicans who side with these extremist maga policies that attack women s rights to so
Is getting a daily reminder. and i do think that there are some democrats that can lead into that a little bit more. doesn t have to be the white house. it goes back to jen s point, i don t think it s just democrats that make that point. i think you can have republicans making that chaos argument. it struck me, this reporting that i started with about the desantis super pac sort of doing what democrats have been traditionally known for, which is investing in a field program, investing in door knocker s, having this troop of people who can go door to door in iowa for desantis. do those resources matter, jennifer, in this environment, if rhonda sanchez has not figured out fundamentally how to distinguish himself from donald trump? well, you need a candidate, first of all. it s always good to have when you train them to do door knocking, they can dornoch for anybody after they know how to do it. but the problem with ron desantis is ron desantis. he s a thoroughly unlikable, boring,