Q: “— I mean, you had Lael Brainard say that we’ve turned the page on inflation, but American families aren’t feeling that to the point where the Vice President didn’t even directly answer the question in the debate. Do you believe that Americans feel —”

KJP: “ We have made —”
Heinrich: “— they’re better off than four years ago?”
KJP: “— look, we have —”
Heinrich: “She dodged it.”

KJP: “— we have made progress in fighting inflation … I believe that the VP highlighted on how we are better off on how — on — on off now as, as well as her plans to build on that progress. That is something that she talked about. How are we going to build on that progress? And, you know, I said this moments ago, we got — we can’t forget what this administration inherited — an economy that was in a tailspin. That’s what we inherited. It was paralyzed because the former President didn’t nothing … because of the work that we did and that — it started with the American rescue plan. Again, no Republicans voted for it. They didn’t want to vote for something that had money for local — local communities, local police enforcement to actually have the funding they needed to get more police officers. They didn’t vote it.”

Heinrich: “Why didn’t the Vice President say yes to that question?”

KJP: “I — you’re going to have to speak directly to her team. What I saw? She laid out how to build on the progress that we’ve made. That’s what we saw. That’s what she’s talking about. That’s what she talks about building on the progress that we have made. We had to fix, we had to fix what the Trump administration did.”

Q: “On a heavier note about the economy —”
KJP: “Sure.”
Heinrich: “— there’s a new analysis by the Republicans who are on the Congressional Joint Economic Committee. They looked at seven battleground states and —”
KJP: “Okay.”
Heinrich: “— according to their analysis, the average household is paying, for the same basket of goods and services on average, about $1,000 more per month compared to January 2021 and the numbers are pretty stark in places like Nevada and Arizona. It’s almost $1200 a month. Georgia, it’s $1,075 a month. North Carolina 1,017. Has President Biden’s policies positioned the Vice President poorly in these states to win this election?”

KJP: “So, I’m not going to get into the election. I’m just not. I’m not going to get into her path to victory and what it does for — it’s just not something that I’m going to speak to from here. What I can speak to is where we are now. Inflation — core inflation has gone down … we have done the work to see progress — progress in fighting inflation and lowering costs — uh — and — but we do understand — we’re not — I hear the numbers that you’re telling me we do understand that there is more work to be done. There is. There’s more work to be done … we have to talk about what congressional Republicans are trying to do. Raise — raise costs by nearly $4,000 for the middle class. That’s what they’re doing. They’re — they want to cut Social Security and Medicare while giving breaks to billionaires and corporations. That is such an unpopular thing to do, and they continue to want to push that forward. They won’t stop talking about it. They want to —”

Heinrich: “No one is running on cutting Social and Medicare. We — we went through all of tha during the —”

KJP: “— yes, we did. We — we went — in the midterms, we went through all of it. There were we saw flyers and — and plans — from leaders of the Senate — of the Senate — Senate Republicans, we saw that. We saw the back and forth with the President at two —”

Heinrich: “— well —”

KJP: “— two State of the Unions where certainly he pushed back on that and made them say that’s not what they wanted to do, but that’s what they were saying they wanted to do. They wanted to cut Social Security and Medicare. They’ve been very clear. This is — this is not just the last three and a half years. This has been for some time now and they want to get rid of the Inflation Reduction Act that none of them, by the way, voted for that beats Big Pharma. They want to get rid of that. That’s going to lower cost for Americans. We’re talking about important drugs, cancer drugs, diabetes, we’re talking about tapping insulin at $35 a month for —”

Heinrich: “[Inaudible] his administration, though —”
KJP: “— seniors that pay more than 400 bucks a month.”

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Q: better off than 4 yrs ago? She dodged it, Why didn’t VP say yes to that question? Pay $1K more per month