Sometimes Democrats aren't great at messaging. If you read former President Donald Trump's posts on his ripoff version of Twitter, you'd think the economy is apocalyptic. However, if he had Biden's job numbers when he was in office, he would have never stopped bragging about it.
Gas is a lot cheaper, and inflation is cooling. Republicans don't want to take about that. They'd rather talk about Dylan Mulvaney.
During an interview on CNN's "State of the Union," Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg spoke about Biden's economy. Buttigieg displays how every Democrat should be discussing the economy.
"Seven in 10 say economic conditions are poor," host Dana Bash said. "Why is it that so many Americans don't seem to be feeling the benefit from Biden's economic policies that you're talking about?"
"Well, look, we're seeing extraordinarily low unemployment, some of the most job creation under any president ever," Buttigieg said. "We're seeing, by the way, with that also unusually high rates of job satisfaction. We've seen inflation falling."
"We've seen manufacturing returning to the U.S. Now, obviously, a lot of effort and a lot of money goes into negativity to try to get people focusing on other things, like some of the things that we're talking about in the culture wars that certain figures are bringing to the fore again and again, I think because they don't want to talk about the economic work that they're doing," he continued.
"And they certainly don't want to talk, you know, if you're talking about House and Senate Republicans, why they voted no on the infrastructure package, the majority of them, although we appreciate the Republicans who crossed over to work with us," Buttigieg said.
"You know, most House and Senate Republicans and state legislative Republicans, they don't want to be dwelling on why they said no to thirty-five dollar-a-month caps on insulin or any of the other issues that are really affecting people," he continued. "The other thing I've noticed in the way these things get digested in the public and in the media is when something is unambiguously good, it gets dramatically less attention."
"That's part of why we've been hitting the road to highlight the really good work that's going on, work that's going on in terms of long-term infrastructure improvements, short-term successes to like the work that Governor Shapiro led in Pennsylvania with partnership from our department to get ninety-five back up and running in record time after it was taken out in a fiery and tragic crash," he added.
Republicans have voted against legislation; then, when the bill's benefits come to their state because of that legislation, they'll take credit for the very thing they voted against.
They know the economy isn't struggling. They're just lying.
