Million when martin lewis predicts that 10 million people could be pushed into fuel poverty, the chancellor should sit up fuel poverty, the chancellor should sit up and fuel poverty, the chancellor should sit up and listen. and we know that pensions sit up and listen. and we know that pensions and security are not going to keep pensions and security are not going to keep up pensions and security are not going to keep up with inflation. pensioners and those on social security pensioners and those on social security will be getting a real terms security will be getting a real terms cut in their incomes, so what analysis terms cut in their incomes, so what analysis has terms cut in their incomes, so what analysis has the chancellor done on the impact analysis has the chancellor done on the impact of benefits being operated by less than inflation? how marry operated by less than inflation? how marry more operated by less than inflation? how many more children and pens
Donald trump to run against an enemy of any sort that he can identify and sort of make a caricature of themselves and drag them through the mud than it is for him to run against himself, which is on a lack of a plan on health care, on infrastructure, on social security, a lack of a plan to deal with an economic recession. so instead of getting up there and touting what he claims is a booming national economy, he can t do that. he can t run against himself or on all of his accomplishments. so instead he targets anyone he can to make an opponent to turn his base against that person. phil rucker talked about his own skepticism, the president s skepticism about economic data. let me read you something that the washington post writes on the topic of fake stats. when obama was president, the official economic statistics were good. trump said they were fake. when trump became president and inherited the exact same stats, suddenly they were real. now that they re turning south they are fak
O connor is in a very competitive race. what do we learn from a policy perspective about what buttons he s pushing? it s an important question because i ve been talking to republicans and democrats all day about these races, particularly ohio. and there s one thing that they agree on, and that is something really simple, chris. and that s candidates matter. it s easy to forget that when you re in these what looks like potential wave elections. but even in a wave election, in a district like this, your point, where a democrat hasn t won in almost 40 years, waves aren t enough. and so in this particular case, what danny o connor has done is focus on basically bread and butter issues, on health care, on social security, on medicare, drilling down on those, attacking the parts of the republican tax plan that they believe really that he believes really appeals to independents and maybe even some
Republicans in 1998 because they were pushing about the impeachment and about clinton, about all the things that went along with monica lewinski the republicans went overboard and lost seats in the mid term. i think the better thing to do is to just as the showcase of your message. run on the things that are most important to people in their lives in their communities and in their families. that tends to be our pocket book issues on the economy, on medicare, on social security. on the economy which the president is very helpful as things continue as they have been. let me ask you a legal question about something that struck me. i was listening to the live interview of rudy giuliani. i sort of stopped in my tracks when he said this is what
Reform attached. i m just looking at this from the president s position. he s got nothing done. the republicans haven t been able to deliver. his frustration has grown. they ve been promising to take care of obamacare for seven years. they can t even get a majority of votes, so if you re donald trump and you re looking for a deal that actually gets something done, especially after you ve been to texas twice, is it a big shock that he went to the democrats? it s not, actually a big shock. he ran as a nonideological president. a candidate with hard line positions but who on some of these core issues of spending on medicare, on social security, he never aligned with speaker ryan. and when i was at the capitol last night covering votes, i was really struck by how many republican lawmakers told me privately that maybe they d been misreading trump more than they imagined. that he was never going to really be interested in boxing out the democrats on these kind of fiscal deals.