Here is what california governor newsom told nbc s jacob soboroff in a today exclusive. these flights of asylum seekers, there have been two of them now, they are described as state sanctioned kidnapping by the attorney general of this state of california. you tweeted directly at the governor of florida ron desantis, you called him a small pathetic man and asked, quote, kidnapping charges? is that what you believe happened, governor? florida kidnapped migrants and brought them to california? i think i m being generous while empathetic. very generous. he is just weakness masquerading as strength. he is flailing. desperate for attention. let just level set here, let s level set. here is a governor from the state of florida that is using taxpayer money, and he had to go to another state to find people
And if you ask people where do you think you will be a year from now, they are actually not that optimistic, they are more pessimistic. so it is a very odd set of personal feelings. one possible explanation for all of this is inflation. people hate inflation. that is why it is in the misery index. but under joe biden, consumer pricing index has gone up by 15.3%. personal incomes 19.2%. meaning that people have still stayed ahead of inflation as a whole. but that said, there are a number of categories, a lot of sense difference things that people buy often or at least are very exposed to the prices of, that have gone up by much, much higher numbers. food, cars, energy, and this is automobiles here. and so on one hand their incomes if you as an economist would look like this, have gone up after inflation, but they are still feeling a lot of the
Election is looking a lot more normal than it might have seemed over the summer. normalcy is bad news. what are your concerns? is the gop momentum too much to overcome? well, let s level set. history says there should be a red wave and you go back six, seven months ago, as someone who watched 2010, a lot of those signs along the road looked like 2010. that has evaporated. that new york times poll aside, which is a bit of an outlier from every other poll out there that shows over the last six, seven months, that the republican advantage has gone, evaporated from a five or six-point to either a three-point democrat advantage or a complete toss-up. that momentum is an odd story given that republicans should be up solidly in the generic. if you look at the battlegrounds right now, look, if a toss-up senate race in pennsylvania