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Been looking for historical reference for this, i have to go back to 1980 where reagan stumbles out of the gate, george hw books to bush look strong i think, very respectfully that biden s numbers might bait even a little better tonight. texas is close. alabama, here s how poorly bernie sanders has done tonight. he may not reach viability in alabama. when i came up here from the decision desk, he was hanging on at 16.3, and you ve got to be 15, bernie sanders has really failed it to deliver here and a pretty profound way. there it is there, 16.3, biden is 63.1. what about john mccain, another example we brought it before. in that nomination process, he was famously, walking through airports with his suitcase and nobody with them on the way. ....
That s really nice to see. a lot of you have been following me when we were on a thing called a campaign, that was an exciting campaign, a great campaign. and i used to talk about wages going down, not going up, but going down for years, 19 years and now they just went up 3.2% and yet there s no inflation because other things are going down like the price of your gasoline at the tank. it s low. and that doesn t happen by luck. i work hard on that. that s like a tax cut for people. so a lot of good things are happening. labor participation rate increased to 63.1. that s an incredible number also. i just wanted to bring that out. the economy is very good. remember, from the time of my election, the stock market s gone up very close to 30%, and that s with all. ....
Money and that s something that is really nice to see. a lot of you have been following me when we were on the campaign. that was an exciting campaign. a great campaign. and i used to talk about wages going down, not going up. going down for years. 19 years. now they just went up 3.2%. there s no inflation because other things are going down like the price of your gasoline at the tank. it s low. that doesn t happen by luck. i work hard on that. that s like a tax cut for people. so a lot of good things. labor participation rate increased to 63.1. that s an incredible number also. i wanted to bring that out. the economy is very good. remember, from the time of my election, the stock market has gone up close to 30%. that s with all of the things ....
63.1. this is not either or. so a lot of people on the sideline which tells us there s a skills gap. we have to move on that skills gap is why there is more jobs available than people looking. we do it s not all go when you look at what happened yesterday. here s the headline here from an article in cnbc, apple just lost facebook market value declines and speak exceeded value of nearly any u.s. company, the concern in their china slumming for apple in china and the ceo did talk about problems with trade. he was caught off guard and that s dangerous for apple. the ceo should not be behind the market. the ceo has information about what s putting him ahead of the market. clearly he admitted in his statement to investors that he was caught off guard by the china sales. he shouldn t have been. he had enough information coming in so unless he was not telling ....
we ve all seen the incredible job growth, 312,000 jobs. 3.2% wage growth, labor participation rate increased to 63.1. from the time of my election, the stock market has gone up very close to 30%. it doesn t get any better than this and i really would urge people to reconsider their pessimism. bret: reconsider the pessimism of a good day today, especially on wall street. the dow was soaring today. you take a look at the highs. obviously, this has been a wild ride on wall street but if you look at the numbers since the president took office, we often put these up, real gdp growth, an employment rate, consumer confidence jumping up, average hourly earnings jumping up as well, obviously the president acting all of that in the rose ....