Dan Pfeiffer
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So he is sort of a bad economic messenger.
And that's a gigantic shift from his first term.
Yeah, he's doing exactly what Biden did.
It's touting macroeconomic numbers to convince people that what they were seeing personally in their lives, their bank accounts, does not matter or is not that important.
The Biden people are always citing how low the unemployment rate was, which is great.
That is better than a high unemployment rate.
But it just doesn't change the fact that people are just paying so much more money for...
the things they need in their daily life, groceries, gas, housing.
And people are getting hammered right now with utility bills, just absolutely hammered, particularly in this past winter as these cold spells all across the United States, heating bills through the roof.
And there's no actual attempt to try to solve the problem for people, or even to seem like you're trying to solve the problem.
In general, in politics, you either got to solve the problem or you got to get caught trying to solve the problem, and Trump's doing neither.
What did you make of the DoorDash Grandma event?
Was it a good press event, a good message?
I can kind of go both ways on this.
I'm curious your take.
Yeah, I had the exact same thought was every Democrat ridiculed the McDonald's event.
And it seemed cheesy.
And what we did not calculate, or a lot of the Democrats talking about it didn't calculate in 2024, was that it's the kind of thing that goes viral.
And it got so much attention.
And it got viral because people who love Trump were posting it.