What Impact Will The 2024 Presidential Election Have On American Democracy?: Top Pollster Weighs In

you brought up the topic of democracy last time and asked what is the impact of this on our democracy I want to pose that question again because I do think it's important I think the solutions are important let's take the politics out of it but it's so hard to do that because there's no election without the politics in it but what's the impact on our democracy the impact is that we continue to cast dispersions towards each other because we don't understand each other there's no no effort to learn from each other Fox News viewers should turn into Ms tune into MSNBC MSNBC viewers should tune into Fox your viewers should turn into CNBC and Fox Business and they should do the same with you we need to get this variety of opinion we need to understand how people think how they need because if you write people off if you simply shut them down they will demand to be heard they will make their voice is heard and you'll get another outcome like 2016 I have so many Democratic friends that come to me and say I can't believe what happened I can't believe he got elected and I said to them if you'd watched Fox if you listened to talk radio you would have seen what was going on and just maybe just maybe you could have prevented it but if we're so narrow-minded and I get really agitated over this as you can tell we're so narrow-minded that we don't understand understand how people live and I always try to give you a statistic every single time we do these interviews to me the most significant statistic and the people who make up this election are the 23% of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck they're not Republicans Or democrats they're not liberals or conservatives they're Americans and they're generally struggling and they see all these debates and they hear all this y screaming on TV they may read it in newspapers although they probably don't have time because they're trying to make ends me and they're simply asking for someone to talk to them to listen to them to understand what's gone wrong with them and to have a solution to make it go right and unless we address these people we're going to have a I want to use the S show but I don't want to get you in trouble but we're going to have this this is going to continue and those who choose not to hear from those they don't understand and don't appreciate just know that you're not part of the solution you're actually part of the problem and people like me are going to hold you accountable we can fix the economic hole in this country and only if we understand what creates jobs it gives us more opportunity and how people are really struggling and they need a direction and after all your are economic voters for the most part we can heal what's dividing this country politically but only if we seek to apply answers rather than air our grievances the reason that we don't have peace in the Middle East which is happening right now as you're taking this interview is because they keep going back to what happened last year 10 years ago a 100 years ago it's all about redressing or addressing grievances from the past rather than finding solutions for the future and I know that this is not really what you want me to talk about but it's what I talk about in every interview this is solvable America is still a great country we still have an incredible future if we choose to accept our responsibility to look past the mistakes and the Grievances of today and focus on achieving meaningful measurable results tomorrow I'm not optimistic that we will do it but I know that we have the possibility