Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom says that President Joe Biden is performing well despite the economic downturn caused by the Biden administration’s failed economic policies.
During an interview with CNN on Monday, Newsom stated that people have negative views of the economy because “we’ve been polarized and traumatized over the last five or six years” and we haven’t had “time to take a deep breath and reflect on it. What we’re experiencing is not unique in the United States at all, it’s a global phenomenon.”
CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash, host of the network’s “CNN Primetime” show, then asked between “how people think the economy is doing and how people feel the economy is doing.”
“Look, we’ve dealt with, we’ve been polarized and traumatized over the last five or six years. I don’t think any of us have given us time to take a deep breath and reflect on it. What we’re experiencing is not unique in the United States at all, it’s a global phenomenon,” Newsom responded.
“We’re seeing inflation down roughly two-thirds, just shy of two-thirds since its peak. That’s a directionally very positive sign. The lowest unemployment for blacks, Hispanics, and the disabled, 70-year lows for women in this country. With all due respect to the Republican Party, they can point the finger and say it could have been better, it could be better, they offer nothing in terms of alternative strategies to make it so,” he continued.
Bash went on to question Newsom about whether the Biden administration should be more transparent when reporting about inflation numbers, as “the expectation and the sort of referendum is on the incumbent.”
“No, I think you have to — you’ve got to feel people’s pain, you’ve got to acknowledge that. It’s why I began talking about how traumatized and polarized we’ve been, I’ve been talking about that stacking of stress and I’ve talking about the distress people are feeling and that sense of dislocation, disequilibrium, this notion that we are more disconnected in our politics,” the California Democrat answered.
“You see it on the nightly news, that stress and frustration that we haven’t come to grips with. All of that’s real and I think that is making it more challenging,” he added.
