ELROD.
AND WELL START WITH PAUL
KRUGMANS LATEST FOR "THE NEW
YORK TIMES" ENTITLED "ITS
MORNING IN JOE BIDENS AMERICA".
HE WRITES IN PART THIS.
AT THIS POINT WE HAVE ENOUGH
DATA IN HAND TO DECLARE THAT THE
ECONOMY IS BOOMING.
IN FACT, ITS BOOMING SO
STRONGLY THAT REPUBLICANS HAVE
PIVOTED FROM CLAIMING FALSE SILY
THAT WERE EXPERIENCING THE
WORST JOB PERFORMANCE IN DECADES
TO LAUDING THE EMPLOYMENT
NUMBERS AND GIVING CREDIT TO
TRUMPS 2017 TAX CUT.
THE ECONOMY IS RUNNING HOTTER
THAN IT DID THE MORNING IN
AMERICA BOOM THAT GAVE RONALD
REAGAN A LANDSLIDE VICTORY IN
THE 1984 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
WEVE
WEVE GAINED 3 MILLION JOBS
SINCE BIDEN TOOK OFFIC OFFICE, O
600,000 JOBS A MONTH.
THIS COMPARES-TO-WITH GAINS OF
340,000 A MONTH IN THE YEAR
LEADING UP TO THE 1984 GAINS.
SO YES, WE ARE HAVING ANOTHER
MORNING IN AMERICA AND BIDEN
DESERVES MORE CREDIT FOR HIS
GOOD MORNING THAN REAGAN EVER
DID FOR HIS.
WOW.
>> JON MEACHAM WHEN I HEAR THE
TERM MORNING IN AMERICA, THE
PHRASE, I THINK BACK NOT TO THE
LANDSLIDE VICTORY WHERE REAGAN
WON 49 STATES BUT THE YEAR
BEFORE WHEN RONALD REAGANS
POPULARITY WAS UPSIDE DOWN, WHEN
HE GAVE A STATE OF THE UNION HE
HAD A 42% APPROVAL RATING AND A
57% DISAPPROVAL RATING EVEN
GOING INTO THE FALL JOHN GLEN
WAS AHEAD OF HIM BY 10 POINTS,
MONDALE WAS AHEAD OF HIM AS THE
PRIMARY SEASON WAS STARTING TO
HEAT UP.
SO MUCH CAN CHANGE IN A YEAR.
BUT RIGHT NOW THE ECONOMY DOES
SEEM TO BE GOING IN THE RIGHT
DIRECTION FOR JOE BIDEN.
>> IT IS.
ONE GREAT QUESTION ABOUT THIS
EXAMPLE THAT HE WRITES ABOUT IS
REAGAN COULD BUILD TO A VICTORY
OF 49 STATES.
TALK ABOUT A 49 STATE
PRESIDENTIAL VICTORY NOW IS AS
IF WERE TALKING ABOUT THEY ARE
MOPLY.
ITS SO REMOTE.
ITS GENUINELY MATHEMATICALLY
IMPOSSIBLE.
MAYBE NOT MATHEMATICALLY, BUT
ITS CULTURALLY IMPOSSIBLE.
ONE OF THE THINGS IT THROWS US
BACK TO IS THE QUESTION ABOUT
THE STRUCTURAL PARTISANSHIP OF
THE ERA.
OUR POLITICS IS GOING TO TURN ON
THIS QUESTION OF THE NEXT FIVE
TO TEN YEARS, HOW MANY PEOPLE
ARE ACTUALLY MOVABLE BY THE KIND
OF DATA, THE KIND OF FACTS THAT
KRUGMAN WRITS ABOUT.
WHETHER YOU VOTED FOR HIM OR
AGAINST HIM, ARE YOU, AS A
PARTICIPANT IN THE AMERICAN
PROCESS, ARE YOU WILLING TO
ACTUALLY CHANGE YOUR MIND BASED
ON CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCE?
WHICH, BY THE WAY, IS WHAT WE
ARE SUPPOSED TO DO.
ITS ONE OF THE INSIGHTS OF THE
FOUNDING WAS THAT REASON WOULD
HAVE A CHANCE AGAINST PASSION.
SO I DONT KNOW WHAT THAT NUMBER
IS, I DONT KNOW IF ITS 5
MILLION, 10 MILLION OF THE 74
MILLION PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR THE
45th PRESIDENT, BUT ITS A
REALLY INTERESTING QUESTION HOW
MANY FOLKS WILL BE MOVED BY
FACT.
>> IT REALLY IS.
ITS STILL SURPRISING TO ME, 75
MILLION AMERICANS VOTED FOR A
GUY WHO WAS CALLING FOR THE
ARREST OF HIS OPPONENT TWO WEEKS
BEFORE, BUT THERE WERE SO MANY
OTHER THINGS THAT DONALD TRUMP
DID AS PRESIDENT, THAT PEOPLE
WOULD HAVE RUN AWAY FROM IN ANY
PREVIOUS TIME, BUT ADRIAN, IT
DOES SEEM JON IS RIGHT, THE
POLITICAL WORLD WE LIVE IN NOW
IS RADICALLY DIFFERENT THAN THE
POLITICAL WORLD THAT I GREW UP
IN, RONALD REAGAN ELECTED TWICE
BY LANDSLIDES, GEORGE H.W. BUSH
ELECTED BY A LANDSLIDE.
AND THEN THE SAME PEOPLE THAT
ELECTED REAGAN TWICE ELECTED
BILL CLINTON TWICE.
THEN HELPED ELECT GEORGE W. BUSH
TWICE.
THEN HELPED ELECT BARACK OBAMA
TWICE.
AND, BY THE WAY, BARACK OBAMA
WASNT A -- LIKE HE DIDNT WIN
IN A SQUEAKER.
I THINK HES THE FIRST DEMOCRAT
TO WIN WITH OVER A MAJORITY OF
VOTES TWO TIMES SINCE FDR.
THE GUY WAS ROLLING UP TALLIES
OF 53%.
THERE WERE MASSIVE SHIFTS.
THESE LAST TWO ELECTIONS,
THOUGH, PEOPLE SEEM TO HAVE
THEIR POLITICAL FEET STUCK IN
CEMENT.
NOT A LOT OF CROSSOVER VOTERS.
>> I THINK, JOE, MEACHAM BRINGS
UP A SMART POINT, IS THIS GOING
TO BE WHAT MAKES SOME
REPUBLICANS WHO HAVE BEEN, YOU
KNOW, MAYBE SOME WHO ACTUALLY
SUPPORTED THE INSURRECTION OR
SOME WHO, YOU KNOW, HAVE BEEN
WITH TRUMP TWICE -- BEEN WITH
HIM TWICE IS THIS GOING TO SWING
THEM BACK OUR DIRECTION, BECAUSE
NOT ONLY IS THE ECONOMY GOOD,
JOE, AS YOU KNOW, BUT JOE BIDEN