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🗓️ 5 April 2021
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0:00.0 | presented by Google. Hello and happy Monday. I'm Adrienne Hurst with your Playbook Daily briefing. |
0:07.6 | Today, the new GOP attack on Biden's jobs plan. Over the weekend, reporters got a memo from Anita Dunn, |
0:14.0 | a senior Biden advisor touting the largely positive reception Biden's infrastructure plan has gotten so far, |
0:20.1 | from the general public and some business |
0:22.2 | labor and environmental leaders. But then Dunn turned her attention to how Republicans who |
0:26.9 | oppose the plan have tried to attack it. Now, the White House has already settled on a message here |
0:32.2 | that's super similar to the one we saw with the COVID relief bill, that the public likes Biden's |
0:37.0 | policies, Republicans included, even if the GOP legislators in Washington do not. And it's true, there's a big gap between public support for Biden's economic policies and how that support translates in Washington. But Dunn's memo, it's probably not the thing you send out if your goal is to win over GOP legislators. |
0:56.2 | Here's what we know so far about Biden's efforts to do that. |
0:59.4 | He's going to invite Republicans to the White House, but we still don't see a coordinated messaging and outreach campaign to win GOP votes. |
1:07.4 | Right now, all signs are pointing to a second reconciliation bill. |
1:11.5 | And a White House strategy aimed at keeping the squad and Senator Joe Manchin in the tent, |
1:16.7 | instead of trying to convince 10 Republican senators to cross the aisle and support $2 trillion plus in infrastructure spending. |
1:24.7 | On the GOP side, we've been watching their opposition to Biden's plan |
1:28.0 | closely, and so far it's coalesced around two main areas. Number one, your standard case against |
1:34.3 | higher taxes and more government spending. And number two, an effort to redefine the Biden plan |
1:40.1 | around cultural hot button issues. Last week, a Chiron on Fox during a segment about the American |
1:45.8 | Jobs Plan described it as a green new reparations bill. Now, a third Republican argument against |
1:52.2 | Biden's Jobs Plan has started bubbling up on the hill. As playbook co-author Ryan Lizza explains this |
1:57.7 | morning, a bill like this will inevitably require deals to secure Democratic |
2:02.0 | votes, and those efforts will give the sausage-making such a putrid stench that the public will |
2:07.3 | turn away and disgust at the allegedly corrupt process. Yikes, watch for this convoy to continue |
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