He’s not wrong.

When potential voters are telling you how bad they have it, the correct response is NOT “Hey, what are you talking about, Jack? Economy is doing great!”

You would think he would have learned from Bill “I feel your pain” Clinton.

Wait… people thought “I feel your pain” was sincere?

The thing is, sincere or not, he didn’t write off voters valid concerns. “It’s the economy, stupid!” and all that.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_the_economy,_stupid

Biden should have a statement along the lines of “Look, I know grocery prices are still up, but at least we’re not fighting for toilet paper like we were under Trump.”

Which would acknowledge a) yeah, things still aren’t where they need to be but also b) we’re doing better than 4 years ago.

I think a lot of the problem is that the current messaging is “look how great the economy is doing!” Which doesn’t ring true for people who have watched the price of everything but an hour of their work go up.

It’s galling to hear that we should be happy that billionaires have more yacht money because they’re gouging us.