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Televised MSNBC Focus Group Goes Horribly Wrong, Gen-Z Voters Slam Biden-Harris Economy
Gateway Pundit ^ | August 17, 2024 | Michael Austin, The Western Journal

Posted on 08/17/2024 7:00:29 PM PDT by Red Badger

Left-leaning media outlets like MSNBC are doing their best to protect Vice President Kamala Harris from scrutiny.

As Ben Shapiro has been so keen on pointing out these last few weeks, it’s been nearly 30 days since Harris became the de facto Democrat nominee, and not once in that time has the media asked her an adversarial question.

The media, which once loathed Harris, has provided nothing but glowing coverage of her. It hasn’t pushed her to lay out her policy proposals or explain how her new administration would be any different than the disastrously unpopular one she is currently serving in.

Given how hard set they are on protecting her, it’s likely the propagandists over at MSNBC were more than a bit troubled by the focus group that managed to find its way onto their airwaves Thursday.

The focus group, led by Harvard Institute of Politics Director of Polling John Della Volpe, sought to get a reading on where Gen-Z voters stand heading into the November election.

One issue seemed to feature most prominently for the Gen-Z voters polled: the state of the economy under the Biden-Harris regime.

“I’m 20 years old. Why is a one-bedroom apartment $1,600?” one Gen-Z voter asked. “Rent prices [are] outrageous and then these jobs, they’re bare-minimum jobs.”

A common theme among the voters polled was frustration at the rising cost of housing.

Two voters even acknowledged they had recently experienced homelessness. One woman said she was working full time while she was homeless, indicating it was because she had to choose between eating and having a home.

Not all Gen-Z voters are going to have the wisdom to connect those rising prices to Democrat policies.

In fact, some of the very same voters in the focus group went on to praise Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

That said, overall, voters tend to connect the current economic conditions to the sitting president — that’s why incumbent candidates often have a hard time winning re-election during recessions.

Many have forgotten that before COVID hit, it looked like Trump was going to coast to re-election, thanks largely to the strong economy he had led thus far.

The more voters are aware of just how bad the economy has gotten, the more likely they’ll be to want a change.

But in order to help them come to that realization, the Trump campaign needs to pin down Harris.

As mentioned above, the media has done an impeccable job covering for Harris and making her candidacy seem as though it’s completely disconnected from the current administration.

In reality, given Harris’ record and the economically illiterate campaign promises she made Friday, under her leadership, the economy would get much, much worse.


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: economics; genz; homelessness; inflation; itstheeconomystupid; media; msnbc; recession; scrutiny; voters
Maybe Gen-Z isn't as vacuous as we think..................
1 posted on 08/17/2024 7:00:29 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Smile. Bump.


2 posted on 08/17/2024 7:01:57 PM PDT by Kudsman (Stop the steal 24: Vote early)
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To: Red Badger

the media works for Harris

how stupid do you have to be to act suprised


3 posted on 08/17/2024 7:03:33 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you")
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To: Red Badger

They are.


4 posted on 08/17/2024 7:04:16 PM PDT by abbastanza
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To: Red Badger
They see the high prices and low wages. But do they understand economics?

The real test, how will the react when Harris offers them free money, debt forgiveness, rent control, a higher minimum wage, price controls on gas and food, and other free stuff?

My guess is, much of Gen Z will cheer Harris.

5 posted on 08/17/2024 7:06:33 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Red Badger

Some people are waking up.


6 posted on 08/17/2024 7:17:02 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: Red Badger

No. But by God, any of you parents out there could have seen this coming.

Liberals are stunted adolescents , often with violent tendencies when they don’t get their way. Or even if they do.

How ever once and a while they do wise up but only after they’ve burnt the house down.


7 posted on 08/17/2024 7:17:09 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Red Badger

</smile>


8 posted on 08/17/2024 7:19:19 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Angelino97

Not sure about that...I think lots of them may be jaded toward promises like that


9 posted on 08/17/2024 7:29:52 PM PDT by goodnesswins (DEI....Divide, Enslave, Indoctrinate.....OR ......Didn't Earn It)
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To: Red Badger

Then again.....


10 posted on 08/17/2024 8:07:56 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (I don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said either)
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To: doorgunner69

They will do whatever their precious social masturbation sites tell them to do.

They cannot think for themselves, have to get group approval for their licks and looks, or whatever they are.


11 posted on 08/17/2024 8:10:13 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (I don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said either)
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To: Red Badger

Hi rents is due to 40M illegals spread out thru the country and if you fag boys and lesbo girls don’t know who IS BRINGING THEM IN you all are illiterate sheep!


12 posted on 08/17/2024 8:12:13 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Harpotoo

I agree. Tell your kin. Please.


13 posted on 08/17/2024 8:15:30 PM PDT by Kudsman (Stop the steal 24: Vote early)
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To: Red Badger

What maybe slapping them out of any vacuousness is the almost impossibility of having a car and an apartment and anything left over to eat with.


14 posted on 08/18/2024 4:02:32 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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Not to worry - $3 million new homes are on the way plus a $25,000 loan to buy your first home.


15 posted on 08/18/2024 4:37:22 AM PDT by randita
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Maybe Gen-Z isn't as vacuous as we think..................

They weren't the generation that sent our manufacturing, technology, money, and tax base to the Chicoms for the sake of saving $.10 on communist made paint brushes.

They are the generation who lost out on high paying job opportunities and inherited massive government debt because of it.

16 posted on 08/18/2024 5:16:36 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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