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Concern that people have had is affordability. >> its expensive. >> its really hard, people have to travel, they really have no option, but to do airline travel, but its hard to afford it right now for a lot of people. >> look at -- the numbers are up on the screen now. >> there are three things, first of all, the demand is already back, the raw demand, the interest in travel and you can see that. everyone felt once the pandemic subsided they needed to go someplace and whatever price it took the...

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The inflation issue or at least affordability in your home with prescription drug costs. weve allowed medicare to negotiate, and thats going to make you feel better, and things like that. the big challenge for democrats is that those are not things and those are not policies and those are not changes that people feel right now. thats down the road. right now there is immediate pain, financial pain, and it is really hard for democrats who are in charge across the board here to address that in a r...

Walter mondale lost 49 states. a lot of democrats say we need to have a family conversation of who we are as a party. weve lost touch with people who work with their hands, didnt handle the working class economic issues, affordability. we should discuss that more after the election. respect the process and count the votes tomorrow. democrats are public when theyre having these family fluids. what hilary rosen said is the beginning of a conversation. first we need to find out how good or how bad ...

You gonna say that even though life is tough, were barely making it, we are gonna keep voting for the folks who are in power. >> yeah we have to keep voting for the people that can help the people. we are gonna vote for the person that can help the people. im democratic all the way. >> its the issue that comes out time and time again in nevada. the states with on the highest inflation rates one of the highest unemployment rates in the united states of america that is affordability. the voting pe...

Folks out on the street is that affordability is at the top of their list. obviously, the issues are not mutually exclusive. but when you talk to not just the voters at the doors but that canvassers going to the doors, the price of living here in nevada is just something that everybody cant get out of their mind. >> that was really good, stuff really fascinating conversation into the lives of those two individuals and why they feel compelled to do what they are doing to get the vote out. jacob s...

Nobody really knows how this is going to go. >> both parties making closing arguments on the economy. where did democrats want the focus to be and where do republicans look? >> democrats very clearly want to be talking about things other than the economy. i mean, i think if they felt like they had a strong message to take to voters on that issue, that would be the focus and they know that in some of those races they have to be on the economy, but they also want to talk to their voters about abor...

Believe in the american dream, and i think you see in the biden agenda, trying to make that american dream a little more affordable again. i think, frankly, if the republicans had given any care about the economy, they would have run away with this election. they have been putting forward plans on and station and affordability, but they want, their focused on destroying our democracy, taking away womens rights and voting rights, and ensure their true colors. thats what they care about, thats wha...

But they also want to talk to their voters about abortion. they want to talk to them about democracy issues. thats why you saw president biden out this week, you know, giving that speech on democracy, and it seems perhaps a little bit perplexing because that issue is a little bit further down. when you look at some of the polls the democratic voters it does matter a lot. theyre in the phase now where its really focused on that. republicans meanwhile are talking obviously a lot about inflation. t...

Theyve been dealing with for several months now and theyre looking at even worse going into twenty , twenty three . so they know that thats why people are looking for change. thats not hard to understand. and you take what he said about women. are they overwrote? no, theyre not. maybe theyre not overwrote, but they also have understood. oh, the states are going to deal with this. and lets say you live in a state like new york , nothing changes for you on abortion. okay, then your main issue, whi...