presidential announcement, president biden laid out the stakes and took aim at what he calls magats republicans when i ran for presiden four years ago i said we are i a battle for the soul of america. and we still are the question we are facing i where they re in the years ahead we have more freedom o less freedom, more rights or fewer. i know what i want the answe to be. and i think you do too this is not a time to be complacent that is why i am running for reelection and with former president donald j. trump, the leading contender for the republican nomination in 2024, a rematc is an actual possibility the biden campaign will put hi policies front and center, including his agenda on th economy, just hours afte launching his reelection bid president biden spoke to union workers in washington d.c. where he focused on his record one of the first things i did as president was signed th american rescue plan, whic helped save the nation from pandemic, vaccinate millions o p
donald trump and then, vice president kamal harris spotlighting a key issu for the 2024 abortion access. as more states impos restrictions and republica candidates grapple wit messaging. and political battles playin out in school board meetings across the country, but what d parents really want? as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again, i a stephanie ruhle. the president makes his pitc for another turn askin americans to let, unquote, finish the job in a video released early this morning, for years to the days since his last presidentia announcement, president bide laid out the stakes to - what he calls maga relatives when i ran for presiden four years ago i said we are i a battle for the soul of america and we still are the question we are facing i weather in the years ahead w have more freedom or les freedom. more rights or fewer i know what i want, and i thin you do too this is not a time to be complacent that is why i am running for
governor of maryland talks about it all the time. joining our conversation i mike murphy, veteran republica strategist and co-director o the center for the political future at the university o southern california. okay, michael if peoples issue with president biden is his age, that is not going to change. it is what it is but let s talk about what he has done he has gotten a lot done from policy perspective but polling shows that his approval rating is only at 41% why aren t his policy wins translating? there are a lot of peopl who ve benefited from them and a lot more going forward he has got law done, a bunc of it with republican suppor particularly in the senate but he gets very little credit for it if i were the biden campaign out to be looking at the polling and two things would worry me the age thing that you wer just talking about, becaus that is not going away and i is a thing that is why they have the wild coat of control ghost of a buddy rich on that video
here in america and abroad and he should be leaning int that the republican party is not th party of national security anymore. president biden should b taking that and talking abou that all the time. and i think that he starte today. they have taken the wor patriot. wes moore, the democrati governor of maryland talks about it all the time. joining our conversation i mike murphy, veteran republica strategist and co-director o the center for the political future at the university o southern california. okay, michael if peoples issue with president biden is his age, that is not going to change. it is what it is but let s talk about what he has done he has gotten a lot done from policy perspective but polling shows that his approval rating is only at 41% why aren t his policy wins translating? there are a lot of peopl who ve benefited from them and a lot more going forward he has got a lot done, bunch of it with republicans support particularly in th senate but he gets very little cre