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know that a lot of republicans, their dream is to cut social security and medicare. let me say this, if that's your dream, i'm your nightmare. . by the way, that may be redundant. i think they already think that i am, but if anyone tries to cut social security, we're going to stop it. if anyone tries to cut medicare, we're going to stop it. and look, when i called republicans out on this on the state of the union, and they started yelling -- liar" -- not all, but started yelling "liar, liar," i said, so that means y'all are for keeping social security? and they all stood up and said, yeah, skand i said, well, we've got a deal! take these cuts off the table. i sure hope so. i really hope so. they stood up, the vast majority
leadership, but i think rick scott is as much an irritant and a thorn on republicans' side as he is to joe biden. he is frankly -- not a thorn on joe biden's side, he's a gift that keeps on giving to joe biden. and he's been confronted about his plan, which is in writing, not only by democrats, not only by joe biden, but by fox news. by people in his own party. >> ana's certainly the florida expert, but i worked on rick scott's campaign in 2010 and he campaigned on jobs, jobs, jobs. he is by no means and by no stretch of the imagination the face of the republican party on this issue. you need to listen to kevin mccarthy who told president bush at -- or president biden at the white house that these programs are not on the chopping block. he's the face of the republican party, as well as mitch mcconnell. >> well, just ask mitch mcconnell what he thinks about rick scott, and that'll give you
now that he is the face of, trust us, we'll protect medicare, seems problematic for republicans, even with the speaker saying, we're not going to cut social security and medicare. >> it is problematic for republicans. which is why you've heard the minority leader, mitch mcconnell say, this is not representative of republicans. but i could not figure out -- first of all, i don't know how in the world we made him the governor of florida. it's an indictment on us in florida that that happened. this is one of the most awkward men, poor communicators, strange duck, who basically put in hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money to buy himself elected office. and he has achieved it. but then it was republicans in the senate who made him the face, the chair of the republican campaign arm in the senate. a huge mistake. he then had the gumption to try to contest mitch mcconnell's
behavior, and by putting rick scott of all people, but putting him out front and behaving the way they did, they served this up to the president? >> first, victor, i think the behavior, the heckling of the president during the state of the union was unacceptable. but as far as this issue, look, rick scott wrote this up in a plan that is not collecting dust in washington, d.c. the most important thing is we have mitch mcconnell, who says, republicans are not going to cut medicare and social security. we have the leader -- the speaker of the house, kevin mck mccarthy who says, this is not what we're talking about. you talk to republicans here in washington, d.c., they are not looking to cut social security and medicare. that is completely off the table. here's what's happening. is that president biden is really using this as a fake argument. this is a false foil. and he certainly would much rather talk about something that is not true than run on his record, which many americans are not satisfied with. that's why we see polls show
president biden sharpening his message, post that state of the union in battleground battleground states. we saw him in wisconsin yesterday. i think it's kind of hard to call florida a battleground right now, although that's what he would like to see. but sticking to this one message, and that is defending medicare and social security. >> reporter: yeah, bianna and victor, president biden showing that he is nowhere close to backing down from this fight with republicans as he is trying to paint himself and democrats as the defenders of social security and medicare. of course, the president traveling down to florida, a senior-rich state, even though in the state of florida, he lost seniors by about ten points against former president trump. but he travel there had and specifically returned to naming names as he is making this argument. once again taking on florida senator rick scott, who had introduced unveiled a plan that would sun sit all federal legislation, including social security and medicare. now, senator mitch mcconnell did not see that as a winning argument for republicans, tried to shoot it down initially and
today senator rick scott was on our air repeatedly right to defend himself, saying that he does not intend to cut those programs. this is something that the white house ultimately believes will play into their favor. it's also interesting, the president didn't just argue about social security and medicare, he was also talking about trying to lower prescription drug costs and health care costs. that's something that could also resonate with older voters. you also can't deny the two giant republican elephants who are in the room in the state of florida, as it is home to both florida governor ron desantis, who the president did briefly mention in his remarks, and former president trump, who can serve as two of his chief republican rivals should he launch a 2024 re-election bid in the coming weeks. >> alice, let me come to you, the president obviously thinks he has a winning issue here, hanging out the pamphlets, chaining the signage to focus on medicare. did republicans and their
that four in ten americans feel as though they are worse off financially. and here's the -- look, i don't blame the white house for going after this and using this. it's leerclearly resonating wit democrats. the problem, once people recognize what the president says about republicans cutting these entitlement programs when they realize that's not the case, then they're really going to be left in a lurch trying to find a message that actually works. because this is not a true argument for the democrats and republicans are going to work feverishly to make sure that american people understand republicans are not going to cut those programs. >> ana, to you now. the location of where the president is is interesting, given that to quote another president, president obama, the democrat took a she lllacking i the midterms. an historic shellacking, we should note, in terms of losing to republicans. republicans are outfund-raising democrats in the state right now, the voter registration gap continues to grow. clearly, they've got a lot of
away. a $2,000 cap next year on prescription drugs goes away. the $35/month insulin limitation goes away. and by the way, i was able to get enacted an $800 a year savings for americans to get their health insurance under the affordable care act. but guess what? they want that to go away, too. they've been trying to get rid of the affordable care act for years, and millions of people are on it. if republicans repeal the inflation reduction act, we'll lose that $800 as well. and all the people who get their health care through the affordable care act, 20% of all the people who get their health care through the affordable care act live in florida. 20%. and by the way, that's 3.2 million people. they're still trying to take it away. and i might know just parenthetically, i'll get back to this, but we're able to do all of this, and i cut the
we bipartisanly passed the respect for marriage act. don't say we can't get along. years ago, i wrote with great consternation, but we've reauthorized it again, the violence against women act. the electoral reform act. folks, we did that in a bipartisan way, democrats and republicans did it. i don't know why they don't acknowledge any part of what's making the country again, but in addition, we passed the american rescue plan. the inflation reduction act, and the people sent a clear message. fighting for the sake of fighting gets us nowhere. there's things that -- we've got to get things done. that's always been my vision for the country, and i think that's what the american people said in this off year election. yesterday i went to wisconsin, nice and warm like down here. [ laughter ] to talk about how we're building an economy from the bottom up
expansion hasn't happened here is politics. it's time to get this done! it really is! and it will be done had you been ele elected. it's not like you're the poorest state in the union. look now, you may have seen, we had a little bit of a spirited debate at the state of the union. [ laughter ] i -- i -- well, i guess i shouldn't say anymore. but particularly with social security and medicare. republicans seem shocked when i took out the pamphlets they were using about cutting medicare and