MSNBC Panelist Says People Are Just ‘Believing’ The Economy Was Poor Under Biden

MSNBC panelist and Futuro Media founder Maria Hinojosa said Friday that voters are simply “believing” the economy is poor under President Joe Biden due to the constant negative narrative they are told.

Throughout his 2024 campaign, President-elect Donald Trump said he would bring back a strong economy, as many Americans polled said the issue was one of their top concerns before heading to the ballot box in November. On “The ReidOut,” Hinojosa was asked if she believed Americans were still concerned about “the price of eggs” over the “fragility of democracy,” to which she said economists had told her Biden’s economy is “great.”

“So Michael, in my reporting all of last year, what became clear, right, was that it was about the economy, the economy, the economy. Speaking with economists over last year, they were like, this is a great economy, but people are believing the narrative that they’re being told that, ‘This is a disastrous economy. It’s a disastrous economy,’” Hinojosa said.

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“So people are expecting, because they have believed this rhetoric of, ‘I’m going to take care of everything, and I will lower the price of eggs.’ What we do know is that building detention camps, right? Seeing screaming children who are being taken from their mothers or fathers, all of that is going to have no impact on the question of the economy,” Hinojosa said. “So I don’t think that Donald Trump is going to have a lot of wiggle room in terms of the time that those voters are going to give him.”

Despite concerns from voters, Biden told