That it is not just trumpism. he is saying you have to explicitly say this is the gateway to donald trump being present again, right, rev? i think you are right. and i think that but take all of what he said. you have to put trump back out there, that it is his gateway to being president again, which you also have to say, and we have done these things and we will do these things. we talked about voter goes, we did not get the john lewis bill passed. we did not get the george floyd justice bill passed. what did we do? well, biden put more blacks on the federal courts than all presidents combined. nobody knows that. you have got to put your message out there. of, what we have done, why it makes a difference, what it means to you at home, not the washington beltway crowd, and the threat that trump will take us all the way back. it must be both. i want to bring joe back into the conversation because, joe, as i said before, i feel like if i ask five different top dems what the message
Partisan power in congress, not motivating to them at all. later we asked what if i told you that if republicans win the house then donald trump will be president in 2024, every single hand went up. interesting. every single hand. that right there, we can t let it happen. interesting. more than that, for some of the voters it won t be enough to give them someone to vote against. we have to give them something to vote for. democrats have to not go out on a stump over the next six months and make promises about what they will do with the next two years. they have to demonstrate progress in what they have done with the last two years. mark mckinnon s conversation with a top polling strategist, i mean there s no path to victory. those are pretty clear words, and putting donald trump back on the ballot, that at any time work in virginia. i feel i feel concerned about that advice. well, he s very specific about this though. first of all in virginia you had a flawed democratic
What is the democratic message half a year out from the election, i don t know what that message is. i think if we get to the clear, strong message there s an opportunity to turn it around. i feel if i spoke to five different democrats they would give me five different answers and here is a clip from the circus. take a look. what is your outlook for the election and what do democrats have to do to overtum of come the challenges. when you look at a place like georgia, a place like florida where there s person of color to be at the top of the ticket, they have to reach that. when you see the approval rating running around 73% of the black vote, you have lost full stop. there s no path to victory. wow. i think we have to put donald trump back on the ballot. when you talk to voters this idea that if we don t vote it could lend to a shift in
Organization, lauren, you have polls. what did you find? prices, prices, prices, the economy, the economy, the economy. it trump every other issue and it trumps it not just for democrats, for republicans, for voters of color, by across the board it is not even close. by double digits it is the most important issue. you break it down between men and women, how well is the economy working for you. this is interesting. women, particularly the economy is not working well for them. 58% of women say that the economy is personally not working well for them, that they are worried about the impact of prices on their ability to support their families, to pay for basic necessities. what is really interesting about the polls is that voters are pretty evenly split about who they blame, republicans and democrats do you blame equally, joe biden and the democrats and donald trump, but it begs the question, you know, how are we going to how are democrats going to address this going into the inc
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