David Plouffe

We didn't have any say in it.

So they'd like to have a say as it relates to AI.

Like, let's really talk about this as opposed to a sense of we know best.

We're going to kill all the jobs.

You're basically your entire life's going to change, but it's OK.

We've got it handled.

No one trusts that.

Right.

So I was always struck, by the way, in 2012 in our reelection, when the economy was weak but recovering, we tried every different way with voters to say, how could you credential Obama on the economy?

Some of it was manufacturing might be coming back.

This plant opened.

Jobs are coming back a little bit.

You know, we had a lot of support in the tech community.

So you'd sit down with voters and say, well, tech leaders think

Obama knows where the economy is going.

And for a lot of those voters, that was a reason to vote against him.

OK, so you also have to understand these tech leaders, they built amazing companies.

I'm glad they're built here, not elsewhere.

We should be proud of a lot of this.

You know, voters don't get the sense that they're necessarily the people they want to be charting the course here.