Stanley Greenberg, a premier Democratic pollster, shut down CNN anchor Jim Acosta on Monday for pushing the Biden administration’s narrative on the economy.
Last month, the polling group that Greenberg co-founded with James Carville surveyed 2,500 voters in battleground states and congressional districts. Greenberg told the New York Times of the results, “This is grim.”
Grim, Greenberg explained, for President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party because the survey found that voter groups conventionally thought to support Democrats — “Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, LGBTQ community, Gen Z, Millennials, unmarried and college women,” according to Greenberg — gave Donald Trump a higher approval than Biden.
On Monday, Greenberg explained on CNN what three factors he believes are driving negative voter sentiment: the economy, mass migration, and politicians doing “nothing about the profiteering.”
That is when Acosta pushed back and parroted the Biden administration’s talking points on the economy. That narrative claims the economy is booming and that if you disagree, it’s because you don’t understand how great Biden has been for the economy or you’re too downstream to feel the effects but will — eventually.
“Inflation is cooling. I mean, if you look at gas prices, they’re going down,” Acosta said. “People aren’t feeling that enough just yet.”
But Greenberg, armed with facts, immediately pushed back.
“It’s a bubble. It’s a bubble,” he said. “Look, what I have discovered in doing my polling in Europe and the U.K. and here — what matters is how many months people have been struggling to deal with inflation. And each month they get madder and madder about it as long as their wages are trailing prices.”
Acosta responded that voters who don’t believe the Biden narrative are simply “grumpy.” But, once again, Greenberg explained why that’s not true.
“Look, get out of the bubble,” he told Acosta.
“[Inflation is] 3% higher than it was when Biden came in. In the last six months, there has been a decline in disposable income. So the context is you have to start there. Inflation is like 30 points higher than the next problem,” Greenberg explained
“What the president currently doing is his tweets always start with, ‘We’re making progress,’ and then he mentions prices,” he continued. “If you look at his ads aimed at black voters, it’s mainly trying to convince them they’re doing a good job. But that’s not where they are. They are losing ground every month, and anger about it [grows].”
12.18.23 CNN Anchor Jim Acosta @Acosta w/ Democratic Pollster and Strategist Stanley Greenberg @StanGreenberg pic.twitter.com/KiA5OPSzzV
— Jeff Storobinsky (@jeffstorobinsky) December 18, 2023
Remember the moron Goolsbee? he used to tout that Obama’s economy was great, it wasn’t, it was all lies, to bad millions of Americans didn’t remember their losses during those years when they went in and voted for Biden, i guess democrats love being taken advantage of.
I feel sorry for little Jimmy Acosta. He’s so stupid that he doesn’t even know it. Like a propagandized little puke, he parrots the talking points of his masters. He wouldn’t know inflation it it slapped him across his silly little face. He did his job of constantly harrassing Pres. Trump for 4 years, acting like a little child being irreverent and disrespectful and he was awarded by his masters and given a raise and a promotion.
Greenberg, you’d have better luck trying to explain economics to a chimpanzee. Acosta is pathetic.