Scaramucci: Trump 'doesn't care' about his approval on the economy

Let's enter the group chat. Philip Bump here, senior data editor and columnist for the CT Insider, Mallory, thank you for joining us. Hate won't win, find your power and leave this place better than you found it. Nikki McMahon-Ramirez, politics reporter at Rolling Stone magazine, and my dear old friend Anthony the Mooch Scaramucci, founder and co-managing partner at SkyBridge Capital, former White House communications director, and he's got a fabulous book out that we're going to get into later. But I want to start with Nnamdi Iguanwu, an MSNBC reporter. He's live in Detroit where former Vice President Harris appeared yesterday. You've been talking to voters for days, Nnamdi. What did you hear?

You know, from the black voters that Vice President Harris came here to engage with, they welcomed her visit. I actually spoke to someone who's come and stuck with me. That, you know, right now, given everything happening with the administration, a lot of people feel hopeless, a lot of people feel out of touch. And one benefit of Harris' visit is that in their view, it energized them. It made them at least feel like things can change if they head to the polls. That being said, the whole point of her visit was to address sort of what has been described to me as a rift between the state's black and Arab communities here in Michigan. And basically send a message to black voters that may still be upset about the outcome of the 2024 race or more specifically, the uncommitted movement that was born here that, hey, you can be upset about it. You can be frustrated, but things are too important. You still got to get up, go to the polls and support Abdul El-Sayed. And that's ultimately the message I know that El-Sayed campaign wanted her to make, and one that she is uniquely positioned to make, being that she was at the center of a lot of the debate that took place in this state at the aftermath of that election. So her visit was very much and they're hoping it will be enough to consolidate black support behind Abdul El-Sayed.

Nnamdi, thank you. Mallory, this is your state. I want to read part of Harris's pitch that she said. She said it's okay not to be in love with a candidate, it's okay to vote and ask everybody else to vote because this choice, that's what gets you where you need to go. That kind of sounds like she is saying, hey, we're not Trump. Is that enough?

I don't think that's what she's saying at all. I think she is critical and rightfully so. Hold on, what she just said is the choice is better than that one. That's all she said. It is better than that one. And we have to understand the Republican Party has been successful, especially in a state like Michigan, understanding you don't have to fall in love, you've got to fall in line, and it doesn't matter who they run, it doesn't matter what they say. You have Mike Rogers who hasn't been held accountable for the fact that his campus organizer at the University of Michigan is a guy who celebrated the infamous pro-Hitler Republican group chat. And that isn't even something that is on the radar. So for Vice President Harris, I can tell you, I got texts all day yesterday from people taking selfies with her, people taking pictures. They were so happy and truly honored that her return to the campaign trail was in Detroit, was in Michigan. And I think it sent a really loud and clear message that, yes, we've got to put the past in the past. We literally cannot afford to put Mike Rogers into the Senate, somebody who has tried to distance himself in the last 48 hours from the president without actually distancing himself from the president. So I don't think she's wrong. And by showing the big tent party that you can have somebody like Abdul sitting side-by-side with the vice president, that shows we're going to grow, we're going to get bigger, we're going to go in. This election is about affordability. We're actually hearing more and more Republicans say it, but we're even hearing Republicans criticize some of their colleagues for not talking about it more. Just yesterday, GOP Senator John Kennedy was saying, why are my colleagues focused on a bill around college sports, right? That are going to serve big SEC schools, athletic directors and coaches, but not the American people. Watch this.

People are getting really good at barely getting by, and we've got to address it. And we haven't done anything to address it. We haven't done anything really since the one big, beautiful bill. And it's going to be a factor in this election.