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Progressives take the message too far to the left, harder to win those true battleground districts. i do think there are some lessons here about creating as broad an appeal as possible for the democrats in the biden era with the president still having majority approval in this country, a lot of democrats are trying to say to the candidates, tie yourself to joe biden more so than just to the progressive wing of special interests. >> progressive democrats are showing kind of a lot of strength and ...

This is not a president who in any way wants to suggest that the country needs to return to march 2020 and shutting down in any way. but youre right, i think that that invites quite a lot of mixed messaging. its also important to realize, this issue is joe bidens best issue politically, right? we just had a poll out last week. of all the issues tested, this is the only issue where he hamza j -- has majority approval of the people. 54% of the people approve of how he handled coronavirus. everythi...

Americans in this poll, say that bidens policies have worsened economic conditions. 30% say theyve improved. 25% no effect at all. so 70% say theyve worsened or no effect at all. bidens policies. you look back and compare that to obama in 2009, not nearly that bad of a score on his policies making things worse. and then if you look at how biden has handled the issues and his approval on each issue, the economy, hes way down. 45% approve of his handling of the economy. 54% disapprove. thats the s...

Doing. that has moved 6 points since august and then this one just 37% give the president high marks for being competent and effective. i think thats a big issue in terms of confidence in this presidency as far as these numbers tell us, marc. >> you are 100% right, martha. it looks like the republicans might pull out a big upset in virginia tomorrow. all of this started with afghanistan. if you look at bidens approval. that fell august 15th. that day his approval was 50% approval. pretty solid. ...

For americans, you see hes got majority approval, 56% approve of the way hes handling the coronavirus. 40% disapprove and you see that is significantly down for joe biden. down ten points from earlier this year when he was at 60% in march and 66% approval on covid in april. hes down ten points now. i think that is precisely why you saw him give that speech last night. >> listen, it is all going to be in results, because those things that followed, the direction of the pandemic, so well see where...

Overall approval rating still at around 52%. thats not too bad. but there are some warnings signs in this new poll. >> there are, indeed. first up, put up the approval rating you mentioned. you say hes at 52% now. hes at 48% disapproved. you noticed the hike in disapproval. so thats one area of concern. there is no doubt about that. what we have also seen is that if you look inside, hes lost ground with independents. hes down five points. >> and the rise of covid, the delta variant, thats having...

Independents critical to his re-election and 34% and only 7% of democrats approve of his job. but take a look at how we break this down by race and gender. approval among white men, 54%, it is the only category where he is majority approval. white women, 42% approval. it goes down from there. hispanics, men 37%. hispanic women, 23% approval. and among african-americans he is in the cellar. black men, 15% approval. black women, 3% approval, jake. and take a look at where president trump lines up ...

Strongly argue which that we should take responsibility in the european east 3 led mission in the region which was a protest proposal that was on the table still a couple of days ago. i think european style meant it would have had. the opportunity to get majority approval in the german bonus saga also by colleagues from opposition parties like the liberals or the greens. now that that option seems to be partly off the table given the substantial differences we have between the europeans and the ...

>> the majority of the minority is still a minority, right? >> well, its always been a minority. it was a minority that voted for him. hes never had majority approval, but, you know, there is enough of -- there is a majority of the republican party, which is enough to keep congress from -- republicans in congress from turning on him. the thing is donald trumps product right now is liberal tears. and its like the first thing that hes ever sold thats legit, right? i mean, he really does make peopl...

Wants or not into a war zone. this is a response to pelosi, who said she would reschedule his state of the union. now today all of this pettiness back and forth, more shade at the man accused of often stiffing his own employees. >> im not denying. we said lets get a date when government is open. lets pay the employees. maybe he thinks it is okay not to pay people who do work. i dont. and my caucus doesnt either. >> trump tells aides, that, quote, were getting crushed on this shutdown. the polls ...