meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The John Batchelor Show

#Markets: POTUS disapproval & What is to be done? Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Books, News, Society & Culture, Arts

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary


#Markets: POTUS disapproval & What is to be done? Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business
https://www.nysun.com/article/a-tale-of-two-mayors-offers-a-startling-contrast-in-big-city-governance

1943 Wayne County Michigan

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batch with my colleague Elizabeth Peek, a columnist

0:10.1

at the Hill, a columnist at Fox News, much on Fox Business, and also writes to the New

0:14.5

York Sun. And I'm looking at a poll of President Biden, who is right now presenting himself

0:22.0

for re-election. And the polling about approval disapproof was run by ABC News, Washington

0:28.4

Post. There's no reason to believe these polls are discontinuous with others. The numbers,

0:34.5

however, are surprising, given the re-election campaign, and the administration of the end

0:42.3

of the pandemic, the riding out of the war in Europe, and now the by-dynamic spending

0:48.6

extravagantly on American infrastructure and other parts of the American economy. The

0:55.1

president's poll rating, which is a way of saying, I don't approve of what's going on,

0:58.9

or I'm worried about the future. It's not just personal, but the numbers are surprisingly

1:04.7

low. The disapproval numbers are very high, and the one that comes to me most in Liz's

1:09.9

excellent column is that of the Americans earning between $50,000 and $100,000 a year. That

1:17.2

is the sweet spot of American progress. 39% approval. 39. Liz, it's not just re-election.

1:25.3

They said the president is being told that Americans don't like the way this is going.

1:31.4

What in particular do Americans want? I mean, I'm not looking at the election now. I'm

1:37.5

looking at right now. Course change. What is it that you find in these polls they want

1:42.1

to happen?

1:43.9

Well, I think, first and foremost, it is the cost of living. It is the fact that everything,

1:49.5

everybody is aware that the price of everything has gone higher. And again, maybe one of the most

1:55.3

visible things is energy. And the president, I'm actually shocked that the president has not

2:03.5

tempered his anti-oil stance one bit. I mean, this is something, it is easy to document that the

2:11.9

president's approval ratings go up and down with the price of gasoline. Pure and simple. That is

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Batchelor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of John Batchelor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.