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If you're interested in nuggets and a Marist poll that can I yesterday granted it's one poll it's one poll but it shows trends that we have to note because they follow the trends of other polls almost every other poll to genuinely eye opening numbers one and approval rating of 41% which means that Biden is now approaching Trump's low.

And he's approaching Trump's low absent any event like Charlottesville that you know sort of ended up becoming a kind of national emotional scandal.

And doing so later in his presidency by the way then Trump and Charlottesville closer to the midterm elections and much more focused on him and his performance rather than outrage at him and his purge.

And the really really really really chilling number for Biden.

I don't know Abe if you have this to hand.

Is the number in terms of approval among Latinos.

I was going to but check for but as I remember off the top my head was 33% approve 62% disapprove something like that could be in the high 50s of disapproval but that he has a 33% approval rating among Latinos that we've seen this trend line we.

33 65 33 65 we've seen the trend line we know that the border counties in Texas flipped and from you know 30% for Hillary Clinton you know to 30% favorable to Trump between 2016 2020 we know that South Florida.

And the stampede toward Trump during during his presidency. This is a nationwide poll I don't know what the sample of Hispanics is it's probably very small it's probably 150 people nonetheless detail after detail after detail suggests that this very central very important democratic group.

And I don't like the democratic president and is looking elsewhere for options.

Please expound upon this.

One of the things that came across our transom this morning is that the Biden White House is preparing to give a pep talk.

And that's not that you know COVID related to COVID or national security or inflationary pressure all the stuff that you know actually really is dragging his administration down but to Democrats mostly the progressives to the whom they've to whom they've been catering for the majority of this presidency to sort of lift them up and tell them you know what we've done what we've achieved and moving to the next year.

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