Hello everyone and welcome to the focus group podcast I'm Sarah Longwell, publisher of the

bull work and this week we're checking in with Democrats.

According to a CNN poll from late August only 33% of Democratic-leaning voters

wanted Joe Biden to be the Democratic nominee and spoiler alert our focus groups

tend to bear that out. We've heard a common thread running through our conversations

with Democrats. They think the Republican Party is just meaner and tougher and they'd like to see Democrats be more assertive and proactive.

They want their own fighter.

They also see the Democrats failing to live up to their expectations in a lot of ways and man do

Democratic voters have high expectations of their political officials. I'm wondering

what it's going to spell out for Joe Biden's re-election prospects and what Democrats should do about it.

That is what I want to talk about with my guest today, former White House Press Secretary,

and host of Inside with Jen Saki at 12 noon on Sundays and 8 p.m. on Mondays on MS NBC.

Jen Saki, thank you so much for being here.

Hi, I'm so happy to be here.

As you know, I'm kind of obsessed with your focus groups and your all of your

information you share about what people

actually think so I'm excited to talk to you about it. That's great you know I've

been trying to workshop this whole idea of calling people who love focus groups

groupies or focus groupies I'm not sure it's landing yet but what do you think about that as a as a messenger?

I want a Sarah Longwell mug that says focus groupie like I'm part of the focus groupies.

Okay, great, I don't want people to be groupies of mine, I want to be groupies of the groups,

like I'm a focus groupie too.

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