This Week with George Stephanopoulos: Biden Campaign Co-Chair Cedric Richmond
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No, it doesn't. I think what we saw that night was a race to the extreme part of the Republican Party. A race to the MAGA base. And that's what we expected. And I think that's very out of touch with what a general election strategy could and should be and with what most Americans want.
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I think that whether it's Trump or it's not Trump, it's going to be Trump's policies. It looks more and more like it will be his demeanor and it will be his extremism. And so I -- that's what we saw on the stage.
So, whether it's former President Trump or not, I think that it will be everything that he has brought the Republican Party to.
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No. Those emails go out -- you know, you get five and six of them a day. So, I wouldn't read much into that.
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Well, the president has said from the beginning that he wanted an independent Justice Department. And we have to adjust that. So, we're not going to comment, we're not going to focus on Donald Trump's legal problems.
But what I will say about President Biden and Vice President Harris is that they have always focused on the American people. So, they're going to continue to do their jobs of bringing down costs, raising wages, rebuilding the middle class from the bottom up and the middle out, bringing 13 million -- creating 13 million jobs, 800,000 manufacturing jobs. That's what they're focused on. And that's what they should be focused on. And the campaign's going to focus on talking about their record of accomplishments, what's at stake, what Republicans are talking about, like cutting Social Security, cutting Medicare, invading Mexico, all of those things that you heard on the debate stage, banning abortion nationwide.
All of those things will be the focus of our campaign. And we will let the justice system take care of what the justice system should take care of.
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Well, first of all, Bidenomics is a value proposition that we're going to build the middle class from the bottom up and the middle out, not trickle-down economics, because it never trickles down to the people who are working the hardest, need it the most. And -- and so we are -- we will stay with that.
But, since you mentioned the polling, what we don't talk about is consumer confidence is the highest it's been in the last two years. Three-fourths of Americans are satisfied with their financial well-being. Over three-fourths of Americans are satisfied or very satisfied with their current employment. And so we see those being as...
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... good signs.
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Well, we have to keep telling them about what we're doing. But I think that how you asked the question, the question you asked, you're going to get very different answers. But when you hear so many people say that they're satisfied with their income right now, that they're very satisfied with their job, we think that's very telling. When you throw the word, just "economy," in a broad sense, you get a different response.
But what we're going to do is continue to do what we've been doing, and that is to talk to people about the fact that we're creating jobs, bringing costs down, bringing manufacturing back to the United States from overseas. And that's what campaigns are for, for us to go out and tell the story of us meeting challenges, what we've accomplished, the challenges we still have to meet in all of those things.
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Well, while they -- while they talk about age, we will talk about the things that Americans are talking about, and that's kitchen table issues. And we're going to continue to do all of the things that we said. So, they'll talk about age and we're going to talk about the fact that we brought insulin down to $35 a month so that our seniors don't have to choose between medicine and rent or utilities.
While they continue to talk about age, we'll continue to talk about the fact that they're not talking about banning assault weapons, while they're banning books but they're not protecting our children in schools, the fact that none of them raised their hand to talk about climate as a real issue when we see fires in Maui, we see hurricanes hitting California, we see the destruction of wildfires. But they're not talking about that.
So those are the things we're going to focus on. We're going to focus on the issues at hand. And we'll talk about the fact that this president wants to protect women's reproductive freedom; we will talk about the fact that he put Ketanji Brown Jackson on the Supreme Court; and that labor, climate groups and women's organizations are all -- have endorsed him already...
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... endorsements.
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