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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 power at the same time. look no further than cory bush and how she single-handedly sitting on the ca...

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 you're right, i think that that invites quite a lot of mixed messaging. it's also important to realize, this issue is joe biden's 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. everything else is upside down, with the majority of americans disapproving. so this is one area that, th...

Americans in this poll, say that biden's policies have worsened economic conditions. 30% say they've improved. 25% no effect at all. so 70% say they've worsened or no effect at all. biden's 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, he's way down. 45% approve of his handling of the economy. 54% disapprove. that's the same when you say about helping the middle class. there's only one issue area where he has a ma...

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 that's 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 biden's approval. that fell august 15th. that day his approval was 50% approval. pretty solid. 55/40 before kabul fell. majority approval on the economy and fighting terrorism. afghanistan afte...

For americans, you see he's got majority approval, 56% approve of the way he's 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. he's 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 we'll see where it goes from here. one final note in this poll, overall national worry about covid, 70% worried...