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>> its not salient. what is salient and ive been sitting in these focus groups, especially with younger african-american voters. you know what theyre talking about, like garrett said, where is the police reform? we talked about that a lot in 2020. voting rights, this is an existential right to our country and you cant pass it? youre in charge, democrats. you have a chance to do this. i think theyre sort of missing out on the things that do really energize democrats on the one hand, and the other...

Votes, i think apart partisan margin the infrastructure bill, but then cut some internal party bargaining, got held up in the house. so president biden has neither. he had a bipartisan bill in the senate for the last controversial bill, he doesnt have that to tout as a success at this point. they have time, technically, these things can be passed one over the past. i dont think his support is holding okay, is drifting down, but hes not in some terrible situation. so he has time to get out under ...

Over the bulwark. thank you for coming out, both of you, welcome, bill, id like to start with you. critique two things for me, how is biden selling the agenda, and how has the sales effort been with the ultimate customers, the american people, the messenger. >> i think, not as well as they couldve done with the biden administration and the democratic party as a whole. it doesnt kind of -- sense of the sales cut. or even president obama with the abawi care, but certainly they made the keys to the...

Hes not getting much credit, it seems, just from voters, for a pretty decent performance on the pandemic and economy, because all the public knows that theyre all doing on the hill, i can follow very well either. anyway, nothing is getting signed, its a tax increase, lots of money. >> bill, i keep meeting to tell you, i listen to those podcast with sarah long will, and weve also heard your voice and those focus groups are sometimes incredibly scary, always interesting to listen to, especially at...

On testing i think. they need to make a bigger deal on progress. the economy is pretty good for all the worries about inflation. hes not getting much credit it doesnt seem at this point from voters for a pretty decent performance on the pandemic. i think a pretty decent performance on the economy. all the public knows is all this squabbling on the hill which they cant follow very well. but anyway, stuff isnt getting signed and its an awful lot of money as the tax increases. and im not sure what ...

Its true they dont know what going to end up in it because they have people who will not -- havent been -- one person who hasnt been transparent about what she wants and is starting to be transparent about it. biden knows what he wants to be in it. just doesnt know whats going to end up in it. id wait and see until theres a bill to see how people feel about it. and then once it passes, then they can start selling it and go out and say here are the things were going to do for you. >> its kind of ...

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The culture war that focus groups and employers and people who are doing a lot of questioning about this trying to break down vaccine hesitancy are finding that when people in the world of trump supporters and in the world of the vaccine skeptics do get vaccinated, they tend to keep it a secret from the people around them because they dont want to defend their actions. >> and, doctor, you want to ask you about the boosters. but as i do, a reminder and ahashgenning back to our first exchange here...

That this is just one poll. a lot of polls are bad for biden. worse than this one. do you think its a single issue or theme going on here? >> theres a lot going on. the passenger right now is about 44, 45% approving of biden. thats the average when you take all the polls together. but what my reporting shows recently, whether its traveling to georgia or talking to strategists who have done focus groups, it all points back to the pandemic. even the supply chain points back to the pandemic which i...