Analyst david zurawik is here with us. welcome, everybody. david, you were watching at home. everybody else was in the room. let s talk about biden and how he fared. i think there were questions about what message he would want to bring to this event, how serious or silly he would want to be. what did people in the room think of biden? you know, people in the room laughed with him. they thought he was able to laugh at himself. but at the end of the day, he had to mark the moment and he also had to bring people in to see him because we realistically, this is a president who has low poll numbers leading into a midterm that s very critical but as far as laughing at himself, he was able to do that, but as far as also putting an exclamation mark on the moment, a moment of crises, a moment of seriousness domestically and with foreign policy and foreign issues, i think he hit the ball out of the park. all of the reality show stuff kind of paused because there was such a serious conversati
Dominating it. he s frustrated that his son, his namesake son is now dragged into it. he feels like it s all a conspiracy by the media and by the democrats. michael crowley two words, policy agenda. what s left of it and what to make of it in the president taking off saying he ll be very angry if health care doesn t get through the under mitch mcconnell s command. saying that prior to leaving the country. brian, you know, republicans after this election were in heaven. obviously they had concerns about donald trump and they knew he was a loose cannon but had the strong majorities in congress and basically thought trump is going to trump and kind of do his performance art, reality show stuff and we re going to pass a bunch of bills and he s going to sign them and it s going to be great. they haven t passed anything. by this time in george w. bush s presidency, he had many weeks since passed an enormous tax cut of over $1 trillion if i recall
Make of it, the president taking off, saying he ll be very angry if health care doesn t get through under mitch mcconnell s command. saying that prior to leaving the country. brian, you know, republicans after this election were in heaven. obviously they had concerns about donald trump and they knew he was a loose cannon, but they had these strong majority in congress and basically thought trump is going to trump and kind of do his performance art, reality show stuff, and we re just going to pass a bunch of bills and he s just going to sign them and it s going to be great. they haven t passed anything. by this time in george w. bush s presidency, he had many weeks since passed an enormous tax cut of over $1 trillion if i recall correctly over ten years. they were on their way to getting other things done. and so that agenda is not happening. you know what is happening though, which is really amazing to me, is he s pushing forward with a good relationship with vladimir putin s russia.
Angry if health care doesn t get through the under mitch mcconnell s command. saying that prior to leaving the country. brian, you know, republicans after this election were in heaven. obviously they had concerns about donald trump and they knew he was a loose cannon but had the strong majorities in congress and basically thought trump is going to trump and kind of do his performance art, reality show stuff and we re going to pass a bunch of bills and he s going to sign them and it s going to be great. they haven t passed anything. by this time in george w. bush s presidency, he had many weeks since passed an enormous tax cut of over $1 trillion if i recall correctly over ten years. they were on their way to getting other things done. and so that agenda is not happening. you know what is happening though, which is really amazing to me, is he s pushing forward with a good relationship with vladimir putin s russia. you would think that any other politician in this situation would be go
So ellis, does this kind of exemplify where the campaigning is going? or is this going to be, i guess, an avenue that could potentially backfire? i just think it s going to continue. it s clearly no good for the party, right? they re saying horrible stuff about each other. it s getting rr personal. it s alienating people that they need to have support them a year from now. but it seems like it s going to keep going a while. what s the landscape when you look at the way in which the campaigning has evolved or devolved, you know, particularly as it pertains to the republican candidates, attacking this way? is this use of social media. does it kind of take the polish or the shine off of a race for the presidency? i choose to look on the bright side which is that so many more people have been drawn in by the reality show stuff,