that constituency. but to the discussion you were just having, people want a reach across the aisle option. right. and no labels, which is a really serious third party effort to get on 50 states, they re already on some, will be a reach across the aisle ticket. it doesn t take a lot of deep analysis to look at what happened in 2016, where in the swing states, 4% to 7% of the vote went to third party candidates and drained away from hillary clinton. in 2020, biden was able to win back much of the vote because the independent vote was about 1%. the difference between 1% and 4% to 7% is a huge difference in terms of margins that were 0.4, 0.5% in the swing states. right. what i think may well happen
a time when one of our two prar parties is neofascist. i m not sure what people want when joe biden is already running for president again. you know, it s what i ve always said to my friends that have said, oh, biden, my republican friends, biden is left wing. he s a markist. i go, are you kidding me? yes. the biggest knock on joe biden was he was too kind to the banks and it credit card companies. he was is senator from corporate delaware. i ve always i will say this, you know, progressives, pre-biden, got the knock of being unrealistic. i have been blown away by the discipline on people that i would consider to be on the far left of the democratic party. they have shown more discipline dealing with a guy, mehdi, who is extraordinarily moderate. he really is. if you look yes. at where we are between the left and the democratic party and the right in the republican party, he really is
two-tiered conspiracy you know, there s two tiers of justice. everything they re accusing the biden administration of not doing, the fbi or justice department, it was actually the trump justice department and fbi. trump would say, charge hillary clinton in 2017. sessions justice department, mr. president, there is no crime there. 2018, he went back, charge hillary clinton. what happens? the justice department looks at it and goes, mr. president, there is no crime. we can t charge hillary clinton. same thing with hunter biden. it s nonsense. anyway, that s the thing, these investigations, trump s justice tried this. if they ve got an issue, they need to get bill barr and jeff sessions and all the ags there. you wanted to say something, rev, jonathan? we keep saying there is no smoking gun. there is not even a gun here.
i think, who said the quiet part out loud, about the benghazi investigation of hillary clinton that was meant essentially, explicitly, to tar her in the context of the 2016 presidential campaign. i think that s what we re seeing here. it is clear. we may see. i do not exclude the possibility that there will be an impeachment inquiry launched by house republicans on the basis of, you know, no direct evidence at all that they ve been able to turn up related to president biden. i think it s about the death of impeachment as a meaningful constraint. with the prospects in the divided country of ever having a conviction in the senate basically null, whether you re democrat or republican, we re talking about a situation where impeachment has become another politicized tool in the tool kit for republicans. it is a messaging impeachment that they seem to be demanding right now. you know, kevin mccarthy, he
current lifestyle? they may or you may have to look around for deals. there s deals out there as we ve seen from nike, target, walmart. inventories are building up. inflation is slowing down. it s still high, yes. it s not as high as it was one or two years ago. folks need to find the deals that exist nowadays. so steve, you re the king of all things economy. inflation might be coming down. that s just the growth of prices coming down from an already elevated level. explain that. yeah, so if you look at the inflation, the rise in prices since biden came into office because we didn t have an inflation problem with trump, it was about 2% throughout his presidency. the prices today are roughly 17% higher than they were when biden came into office. now, over that same time period,