Democrat California Sen. Adam Schiff confirmed on ABC News that his party lost the 2024 election because he “doesn’t focus on lasers” on high living expenses while trying to beat President Donald Trump’s economy on Sunday.
During former President Joe Biden’s administration, the economy reached a peak inflation rate of 9% in June 2022, up significantly from 1.4% when he first took office. But both Biden and Democrats have sought to downplay the economic crisis throughout Biden’s four-year inauguration. The former president repeatedly touted his economic legacy despite American concerns about the cost of living.
On ABC’s “This Week,” Jonathan Carl asked Schiff about the removal of Democrat representatives from his House room on Tuesday while trying to confuse Trump’s speech. Highlight xPost Democrat Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman confusingly said it would be more harmful to the party, Carl asked if Fetterman had “points.” (Related: The federal government will reduce employment for the first time in years amid a drastic cut in Doge.)
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“Well, I think the lack of a regulated response to the state of the Union was a mistake,” Schiff said. “Frankly, it focused on where it should be. This lies in the fact that the president spoke for an hour and forty minutes and had nothing to say about what he would do to cut costs.”
Schiff said how Trump’s speech didn’t help Americans “to afford a new home, to pay rent, to afford health care and childcare,” adding the methods Democrats need to “focus” on the economy.
“They are destroying the economy and it’s becoming increasingly difficult for Americans to afford things, and that’s where we need to keep our focus,” Schiff added. “That’s why we lost our final election because we didn’t focus on high cost of living. What they’re doing now is just making that worse in the administration, and that’s something that needs to be really emphasized.”
In Trump’s joint speech to Congress on Tuesday, Texas Democrat Al Green was kicked out of the room by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson after Democrats repeatedly cried out to Trump minutes after his speech. The president between addresses Highlighted His early victory in his administration and his plan to “settle” the economy.
During the Biden administration, Republicans tried to warn fellow lawmakers about the state of the economy, but repeatedly asserted that the Biden White House is growing under Biden despite draining unexpected job creation, inflation and record-breaking immigration opportunities. While some Democrats have acknowledged their push for bad things policy The 2024 election for Republicans may have cost them, but others have said that, like Chuck Schumer, a minority leader in the Democratic Senate, “how much they don’t realize” the party did for them.
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