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The Erick Erickson Show

S11 EP140: Hour 2 - The Alleged Biden Rebound

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The media is desperately wants you to believe Biden had a super good week and that despite what you are experiencing it’s good for you and the media needs Trump to run in 2024 more than the GOP does.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. Delighted to have you with me. The phone number. If you want to be a part of the program, 877-9-737-3-7-4-25. Let me go on and get the audio out of the way because, well, you got to get some perspective on how the media is covering things. This is from Meet the Press and Chuck Todd.

0:23.7

Well, President Biden got some good news just this morning.

0:26.8

He's tested negative for COVID and he's out of isolation and on his way to Rojoboth Beach, Delaware.

0:32.1

This comes at the end of what may have been Joe Biden's best week as president,

0:35.6

the killing of al-Qaeda's leader. Amen Al-Zawari,

0:39.4

the abortion vote in Kansas, a huge jobs report on Friday, falling gas prices, and the all-night

0:45.1

vote on the Democrats' climate, energy, and health care bill looks like it's going to go through.

0:49.3

Pretty good for a guy with approval ratings in the 30s.

0:52.9

Yeah, this seems to be a Twitter manufacturer. a guy with approval ratings in the 30s. Yeah.

0:54.7

This seems to be a Twitter manufactured thread.

0:59.1

The media all get on Twitter and away we go.

1:03.8

And really, they haven't really gotten a ton done. And this is scaled back from the $3 to $5 trillion that he wanted.

1:16.3

Look, it's a win.

1:17.6

The president gets a win.

1:19.0

It's not the win he wanted, but he will take it.

1:21.3

But now, that's from Chuck Todd, essentially echoing the Twitter zeitgeist of the blue checks to Rick Klein the political editor at ABC News.

1:32.4

Strong jobs numbers this week, but President Biden and the Democrats still facing voters who are quite sour on the economy.

1:38.3

Yeah, George, no meaningful approval rating increase for Joe Biden across the board or a range of issues he

1:44.6

is still stuck in some low numbers and get this 69% of Americans still think the

1:49.3

economy is getting worse despite the drop in gas prices despite those positive

1:52.6

economic numbers and we're seeing that spill over into voter enthusiasm

1:57.1

Republicans more likely to say that they are ready and eager to go vote

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