Fox News host Harris Faulkner called out a Democratic guest Monday after he claimed American voters didn’t understand that the economy was “strong.”
President-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, securing more than the 270 electoral votes necessary to win the presidency in the early morning of Nov. 6 after making substantial gains among both black and Hispanic voters in pre-election polling, largely due to the economy. Democratic strategist Fred Hicks claimed the party was engaged in “soul searching” when he claimed the “economy was strong.”
“Donald Trump won the election, and Democrats are very clear on that. Some people who wonder if there was some monkeying around with it,” Hicks claimed. “We have except the results of the election in 2024. We saw that last week when President Biden welcoming president-elect Donald Trump to the White House. With that being said, at the same time, we’re trying to figure out what happened because the economy was strong and is strong.”
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Since President Joe Biden and Harris took office in January 2021, prices rose by over 20%, while the Consumer Price Index (CPI) reached a high of 9% in June 2022. By comparison, the CPI grew 1.4% year-over-year in January 2021, when Trump left office, while the average price for a gallon of gas was under $2.25 the same year, according to GasBuddy.com.
“You say that but people were not strong. You look at America but you don’t see the Americans who said they were not strong in the pocketbook. That food prices were too high. You are still saying it,” Faulkner told Hicks, who responded by claiming it was a “disconnect” between them.
“It’s not a disconnect. It’s a disconnect from the facts but not between us as individuals, Fred,” Faulkner responded.
Hicks admitted Americans didn’t feel the economy was good before admitting Democrats struggled with their “messaging” in the election.
“Democrats have a real problem now with our messaging and real problem with connecting and a real problem with having people understand where we are because we have moved a little bit and we allowed Republicans frame us in such a way we focused on social issues rather than economic issues,” Hicks said.
“They saw you cozying up with millions of dollars of campaign money through Kamala Harris. The voters framed you. They decided what you were,” Faulkner responded. “When you say ‘monkeying around’ about the election. I mean That’s not helpful. I mean, what is that? Why would you even express that unless you actually thought it? It’s confounding. It’s simple. It’s the economy, it’s the border. Believe the voters.”
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