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Way. and that s going to be a positive thing. there was an interesting after action report in virginia pollster brian striker wrote a memo base on focus groups he did. and he made this point. the number 1 issue for women right now is the economy. and the number 1 issue for block sloeters right now is the economy. and the number one issue for latino voters? you guessed it. the economy. i m not advocate for democrats ignoring social issues but they always want us to talk about the economy and doing things to help them out economically. this is a weird academy to run on one right now. low employment, jobs everywhere. wages up. squint the other way, cost of liing is up. how do you address it. for one we ve had a record pace for job growth in north carolina. ....
Some latinos than people expected. what that means for democrats going into 2022 is that we can t take anything for granted. there has to be a 365 day 24/7 push to register latinos to speak to them about what matters and get the vote out. brian striker told the new york times that democrats have a branding problem. he says people think dems are coming across they re too focused on social issues and he says the number one issue for black women and latina voters, it s the economy. he s not advocaing for ignoring social issues but voters actually all want to hear about the economy and things to help them out economically. is this fair? are democrats falling into a tenor of a socialist trap? i don t think so. in fact, democrats are very focused on the economy. i mean, that has been the lion s share of what the biden ....
Midterms with the m memo saying if we re running 2022 on republican candidate equals trump we re going to get killed. joining me now, the person behind that memo, brian striker. democratic pollster and with us dave wasserman and heidi heitkamp, former democratic senator from north dakota. you talked to virginia voters after glenn youngkin flipped the state. what do democrats need to fix? they don t need to talk about trump. they can talk the wins now in terms of public health and the economy, two really big things. d. i think specifically important when making our case to voters. one thing i think we didn t do enough of in hindsight in virginia. make the positive case. talking about getting costs down for families. the cost of gas. bringing supply chains home. taking on china. being more economically competitive. i think that s really important we make that case rather than try to make the election a ....
Package that s going to help people across the country. can democrats start to run on that? it s amazing to see joe biden s poll numbers going down and in the face of a lot of good news. the truth is that democrats fate rests with how good voter are feeling next year. president biden and democrats pretty much exhausted major levers, actions, to make people feel better quickly. whether stimulus or federal vaccine mandate. i think biden s approval rating has to be back above 50 by november for democrats to have a chance to hold on to congress. on the current trajectory, superimpose results in virginia and new jersey, down ballot, on congress democrats lose four senate seats and 51 house seats. right now a question of mitigation. brian, i want to read more of what you wrote in your memo. voters couldn t name anything that democrats had done. except a few who said we passed the infrastructure bill. ....
Can afford your day care, if we get this done. we don t personalize the economic message, and that s the problem that we re having. then they could contrast rgdp with our vaccine rollout to our supply chain and inflation issues with countries around the world. remember, it s a global pandemic. we went from being at the bottom in lowest point in the pandemic and here we are on top. heidi, brian, david, thank you all so much. definitely made us smarter. coming up next, instagram rolls out new safety rules for teens, so they say, hours before its chief heads to the hill. is all of this just a big show? w we ll pay off your phone up to $1000. you can keep your phone. keep your number. and get your employees connected on the largest and fastest 5g network. plus, we give you $200 in facebook ads on us! ....