Here’s The White House youtube channel’s version of today’s remarks, broadcast live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exA4VqXO6Vg?si=S9KT7-NQ-RmI0koV&t=760
Notice the video skips at around 12:58
And here’s what all the other channels showed. Starting at 4:58:
The deleted comment:
“And all that data and all the polling stuff shows they think they’re more positive about the economy than they’ve been. More positive about their jobs etc,…um i just think it should… let me put it this way: If you just watch what happened last week in the congress, how excited are you gonna be about much of anything?
Anyway.”
He was responding to this question:
“Mr. President, you started your remarks here today by saying it was good news today with the economic report. Why do you think most people still don’t feel positive or feel good news about the economy?”
Table 17: View of the economy, by party identification, September 2023
Among registered voters
Party ID, View of the economy
Excellent, Good, Not so good, Poor
Total 3, 20, 45, 32
Republican 1, 5, 42, 52
Independent 1, 9, 63, 27
Democrat 6, 35, 45, 14
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey, Sept. 18-25, 2023
https://law.marquette.edu/poll/
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