mallory just said no, no more of it, and called the craziness out. called the lunacy out. called the phony, performative christianity out. i think that s what democrats have to do. they should see what she did on the state floor. we ll show it. in michigan, we ll show it later on, and they should all take that to heart. they need to start calling out the absolute, sheer lunacy of it all. and it is just absolutely crazy. on top of that, there aren t many republicans still who give you a straight answer about whether joe biden actually won the 2020 election. let s tour former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst, as advertised, steve rattner, with some charts on the democratic headwinds for the midterms. steve, good morning. so we ve talked a lot about inflation as a big problem for joe biden and for democrats here. what else are you looking at in your charts? well, you know, in listening to what you guys were just
they are not able to be here protesting because they are out work. they don t that have right to take off today. let me go to senator coggs. is this a manufactured crisis? some people on the opposition, the democratic side of this fight, union side are saying that the governor could have balanced a budget other ways. he chose to create an imbalance so he could do this stuff to unions. is this manufactured or what? where do you stand on the simple question, do we have to go through what we re watching, this craziness out in wisconsin? let me make it clear, absolutely not. if you look at the legislative fiscal bureau, which is a nonpartisan bureau that works for republicans and democrats, they say in our current year, we have a surplus. the only imbalance we would have is because the last three governor the governor issues three bills that help so this is a manufactured crisis. senator, you know that s not true. first of all the money we allocated towards the savings