try the get people to vote for him, especially young people. yeah, look, the white house officials were involved in intensive months-long unegotiations in this. they played a critical role and when you look at exit polling and how democrats did. younger voters breaking heavily toward democrats. but more than anything else, when you talk to white house officials who are involved in this decision where the president was skeptical about the fairness argument ensuring it was tailored and targeted toward lower income and middle income they believed it was a campaign promise the president needed to deliver on, and they believe it will have real economic impact in a positive manner for a segment of the population that typically falls behind or is not given perhaps the opportunities that others are. politics, though, very clearly having a role. it will be most interesting to see dpnding on how this plays out if this ends up getting struck down. the president has been unequivocal in recent mo
is trying to be this fresh voice, she even said on her roll out that she does not believe that america s races. she tapped into her immigrant heritage. and so, she is leaning into, hey, almost look at me. if the party in america was so racist, how could i end up being a governor of south carolina? so, it will be an interesting thing that she is facing, running as a republican and knowing that, even though donald trump was her ally, we are showing all these pictures of them, when she was part of his administration. he is already waging war against her. he is already attacking her. and the ways in which we have seen the exit polling in 2016 that actually worked for his base when he was overtly attacking her i think, alencia makes a good point, carlos curbelo, that nikki haley is leaning into her immigrant background. you saw her campaign about how she starts and how she is the proud daughter of
republican party does not overwhelmingly believe that they have a problem with more women representation in their party she is trying to be this fresh voice, she even said on her roll out that she does not believe that america s races. she tapped into her immigrant heritage. and so, she is leaning into, hey, almost look at me. if the party in america was so racist, how could i end up being a governor of south carolina? so, it will be an interesting thing that she is facing, running as a republican and knowing that, even though donald trump was her ally, we are showing all these pictures of them, when she was part of his administration. he is already waging war against her. he is already attacking her. and the ways in which we have seen the exit polling in 2016 that actually worked for his base when he was overtly attacking her i think, alencia makes a good point, carlos curbelo, that nikki haley is leaning into her immigrant background. you saw her campaign about
independent voters. 60% of independent said in the exit polling landed unfavorable view of biden. majority, and unfavorable view of the democratic party. joe biden is not popular with independents. but you can see here, the republican party and especially donald trump, even less popular. significantly less popular with independent voters. i think you start to see, here we typically think of these midterm elections, referendum on the president. that is typically how they have run. i think there s probably a referendum aspect here. on the opposition party. the man who most recently lead the opposition party this year is academically cannot usually have in midterm elections. also take a look at this. we asked about the role of donald trump, his lingering presence in these hundreds who do american politics. the january 6th hearings this summer. asking independent voters about the state of democracy, nearly three quarters say they feel democracy is threatened. just look at how these voters
the source loser of the 2022 midterms, and it was a competitive field, i think it is safe to say it s kari lake of arizona. on some level, that s not surprising. she was a trump darling, who ran her entire campaign for arizona governor on stop the steal. she was a formidable, dangerous candidate, former local tv news anchor. she was a very smooth communicator, who outperformed some of the other republicans ran statewide, and also lost, including blake masters, who ran for senate. and mark finchem, another election denier who ran for secretary of state. the reason for kavalec s defeat is very clear. she lost a lot of winnable republicans, because she was harping on the false claim of trump s stolen election in 2020. and crying about things like putting a stick for the heart of the mccain party in arizona. the washington post now says an exit polling found that 9% of self-described republicans voted for democrat katie hobbs.