White House press secretary Jen Psaki gave a snarky reply Friday morning when Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski pointed out that Americans care more about economic issues than social ones.
'No you-know-what Sherlock! Of course they do!' Psaki replied.
Brzezinski was referring to data collected from a Virginia-based focus group of voters who had chosen President Joe Biden for president in 2020 and then voted for Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin, the race's winner.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki gave a snarky reply Friday morning when Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski pointed out that Americans care more about economic issues than social ones
'Yes, we recognize prices are up. That's a problem,' Psaki said. High gas prices have created a political headache for President Joe Biden
Democratic pollster Brian Stryker said in a recent interview with The New York Times about his findings that the 'Democrats have a problem.'
'People think we're more focused on social issues than the economy - and the economy is the No. 1 issue right now,' he said was the party's main branding problem.
Brzezinski pointed that out to Psaki during the Friday morning panel discussion.
'Democrats are losing really badly on economic issues, and that a lot of Americans care more about economci issues versus social issues and, of course, their health,' the anchor said. 'How do you respond? How do you think the White House can do better?'
Psaki agreed with what the focus group unearthed.
'The American people care about COVID, getting it under control, and they care about the economy,' she stated. 'As a Virginia woman in the suburbs who has neighbors who are Democrats, Republicans, independents, I can tell you that's what they care the most about,' she added.
She argued that Democrats have the opportunity to be 'quite bold about the choice that people across the country have.'
'Yes, we recognize prices are up. That's a problem. We recognize we're still fighting the pandemic,' she said. 'Who has a plan to do it?'
'Are you going to be the Republicans, who are going to scream, "It's a problem" from a bullhorn, or are you going to be a Democrat and say, "Look, we just passed this infrastructure bill. We want to get Build Back Better done," which, by the way, will
