Ronan Farrow to W.H.: If the Economy Is So Good, Why Did the Dems Lose?

“Well, I think that, um, you know, the problem, um, that the president often speaks about is that even though at a macro level we are seeing a lot of encouraging signs and a lot of new jobs being created and unemployment rate going down, um, a lot of people particularly the middle class families are not feeling this yet.

Um, there is a, um, I think as you noted even leading to this, wages have not been growing fast enough, so we do feel like we have come a really long way particularly from when we were shedding 800,000 jobs a month when the president came into office to now when we are creating about 200,000. But there is a lot of work to do particularly on making sure that people see their wages going up and they understand that they have, um, uh, opportunities in this country in the future.

And that’s, you know, we think that was a message to us, to the president after the election, that there is a big part of the country that either didn’t vote for us or didn’t feel they had enough at stake to vote for to come out and vote and we are really concerned about that, basically to understand that economy, uh, um, it’s — we are making improvements.

Um, there is a lot of people that aren't feeling that yet and we want them to understand, have confidence in what we have done thus far and the more that we’ll do because they should see opportunity in this future for them and in particular, the families that have young adult kids and aren’t sure what’s going to be there for them. So that’s what the president you’ll see in the next few months will be really focused on.”