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here, or anywhere that matters, america is watching on c-span. powered by cable. >> good morning to you or you could start calling and now her foot is driving your mid term election vote? not surprisingly the answer seems to depend on what side you sit on. the recent gallup poll asking americans what their issues are republicans who answered said these three issues are the top, economy, gun policy and immigration. democrats, split three issues gun policy, climate change, and at portion -- abortion. that was in the field last month. this morning, we want to know for your top issue is with 120

days to election day. the issue of midterm elections was on the sunday shows yesterday. the question being asked by various interviewers to various political figures who were on the air yesterday, including the vice president of the united states. she was on face the nation. this is how she said democrats would come out of midterm elections. [video clip] >> democracy is on the ballot. truly. if you look at an issue like choice, it's on the ballot. a woman's decision to make -- a woman's choice to make a decision about her on body. making decisions about contraception or same-sex, elections matter. the people who are elected, especially to the united states

congress will decide the outcome of all of these issues. the ability of us to pass voting rights legislation, the freedom to vote act will be a function of who is in congress. host: vice president on face the nation yesterday. also on fox news sunday republican from wyoming conference chair and he also talked a bit about 2022. [video clip] >> republicans believe they have the golden opportunity to win the majority but herschel walker eric barton and dr. oz are not winning over the voters is there a possibility the gop could blow this opportunity >> >> i am optimistic about the future election coming cap in number. the number one issue is inflation. and all the issues people care

about they look to republicans is the solution. inflation, energy, economy, chaos at the border, crime all of those nominees that you just mentioned, others are still in primaries that have not been decided what we know is they understand their states. they understand the pain that people are having in those states and right now you have candidate running as democrats who just this past week in ohio, the senate and the governor candidate refused to even show up or be seen when president biden came to their state. people are distancing themselves from this administration. i am very optimistic about our opportunities in november. president trump could announce a third run for the white house before the midterms. are you concerned that combined with the roe v. wade reversal could really galvanize and energize democratic voters ahead of the midterms?

>> people will make their own decisions as to what they vote on and how they decide to vote. i will tell you when president trump was in the white house, gas prices are half what they are today. inflation was nonexistent. the border was secure. we were energy independent. joe biden is heading to saudi arabia asking for more energy because he has killed energy in america. we need to get back to energy dominance on energy dependence. host: that was yesterday on fox news sunday. as congress returns for a few weeks of work before they head home ahead of the midterms, what is driving your midterm election vote? democrats (202) 748-8000 is the number to call in. republicans (202) 748-8001 and independents (202) 748-8002.

go ahead and call in. we will get to your calls and just a second. let's look at some of the tweets and text messages as well. the conversation is already starting. what is your driving your vote. divided government is best for america i will be voting straight republican. reckless expansion of big government has to stop. this from another of our twitter viewers what is driving my midterm vote? i am voting for candidates who specifically address the needs and goals of the working class. people is -- what bc bennett says another one not the economy 's sink the economy is what he is going to be voting for.

that is the conversation happening on the social media page. or you can call in, republican, you are up first on the phone today. caller: how are you this morning? the reason i am calling, i am 63 years old. i grew up in detroit. i am supporting the republican party because i feel like i am way too compassionate to vote democratic. i watched the city of detroit in 1968. or did it hurt? the poor people who lived at the neighborhoods. i watched them burn neighborhoods down and call it peaceful protests. it hurt the people whose grocery stores were burned down, whose homes were burned down. now look at the inflation we have feared who is that hurting? it's hurting poor people, it's

hurting older people who are on a fixed income. they are not for the little man peered create problems like they did in the 60's when they created a fpc and they paid african-american men to leave their homes. they caused problems and then they tried to invent stuff that they're going to try to help that they have no compassion. they vote selfishly for their own problems, they cause problems, and then they told us they have to fix it. i am much too compassionate to be a democrat. thank you. host: this is matt in maryland. good morning. caller: yes, good morning. i'm calling and want to talk about the three things biden has done a lot of people are going

to call in not giving credit to joe biden. but to be honest, this president inherited a country that, you know, i don't know how to describe it. if you think about it, you know we have hundreds of thousands of people dying. and in that situation, this president took over from a president who didn't even want to sit with him. to sit with him to tell him what was going on and what he had to do to continue making progress. if the previous administration was making progress, but we all know what he inherited was hard.

also, i want to point out that they pulled out of afghanistan. i think that was the greatest withdrawal we have ever seen in human history. ok? and, yeah, i know i think it was two or three military officers who lost their lives but overall i think it was a success. host: that point, the pullout from afghanistan was the moment that switched, if you look at joe biden's approval numbers the moment that he went underwater. the pullout from afghanistan happening there is where the disapproval line was more than those who approve of him. you can see the numbers as they have trended since then,

continuing to go in opposite directions. now underwater by nearly 20 points according to the real clear politics average job approval of the president. caller: i think most people, when you talk about, when you look at the situation in afghanistan most people don't like the idea that he left so many weapons behind. i think that's the part that actually most people will have problem with including democrats. in myself, i have problems with it. all those weapons that got left behind. but you have to think about this, the previous administration, perhaps we could have avoided leaving those weapons behind. we could have avoided a lot of the downfall of that withdrawal if the previous president had

done what every other president has done in the past, sit with the current person coming in and talk about what has to happen moving forward. host: got your point. independent, good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i just want to say that i believe the economy and stuff is the same thing that we saw in 2008. the banks are charging the young kids, some of them have credit cards paying 32% in the 70's when i was buying property and stuff, 18% on a long was usually -- you went to jail. now a normal credit card to be sending out, i just read them

and say my god i can't believe this is happening. but you have to read two and three pages to find out what the interest is. so the kids don't even now what they are signing. and that's all i wanted to say. host: keep calling in. we are asking you what is driving your midterm election vote. it is not 120 days until election day, 2022. we want to hear what is on your mind. what are you think about when you go to the polls? (202) 748-8000 democrats. (202) 748-8001 republican spirit and defendants (202) 748-8002. a lot of thought is being given to the election. a gallup poll pulls out two points out there is quite of one of thought to this year's

maternal infection but no more than 30% in the same thing in the summer months between 1998 and 2014 the tenancy for increase continues the figure is higher than it would've been in the summer of 2018. the public that about midterm elections has increased between the summer and fall by seven points to 27 since 1998. americans attention to the midterm elections has -- could exceed the previous high of 55% is your by gallup back 2010. renee, west chester, pennsylvania. your next. caller: good morning, i will vote for the democrats and the midterms and the reason i will is because first of all, the lies. many lies.

i feel republicans are trying to do away with democracy and i believe trump is trying to be a dictator. and i want to live and continue to live in a country where there is democracy. i don't want to live in a country ran by a dictator. host: have you been watching the january 6 hearings? do you think they are making a difference or an impact on people? or do you think people already have their opinions set? caller: and some people, yes. some people, their minds is like in a hole. they give this man a lot of money your he has always been a creek in a criminal, i'm sorry. i mean, i'm sorry. but he has always been crooked. he has always been a big liar. these people believe his lies and they follow him and, i don't know they act like they are in

some kind of occult. as far as biden and the economy, we had a very nasty pandemic. it's not even over. it wasn't just the united states. it hit all over the world. we have a lot of factories in china. there are a lot of factories where we get goods and services and things from. you think that doesn't have something to do with the pricing and problems, and businesses having to close down and shut down? i mean, it's going to take a while for us to bounce back. host: vector january 6, we will be hearing a lot more about that this week. there are two hearings this week. we know for sure the one tomorrow afternoon is set to focus on the silent extremists over at the capital the tape. their story on it noting that

the congressman stephanie burke will lead those rounds of questioning and also some news yesterday on the issue of former donald trump advisor steve bannon saying that he will testify before the january 6 committee. some questions about that after he was indicted on two counts of criminal contempt after being subpoenaed to testify. we will talk more about those hearings coming up in our week ahead on capitol hill preview. if you want to stick around for that conversation. back to your thoughts on what is driving your midterm election vote. an independent west virginia. caller: good morning. i am absolutely going to vote democratic because i feel that our democracy is at stake.

not unlike the previous caller. i have never voted for trump im truly a never chamfer. --trumper. i feel heat involved lies and deception. and watching people fall in line with him just made me heartsick. i believe it is really important that we take our country back. the only way we can do that and assure there is freedom to make individuals decisions about things rests with the democrats. i also am truly disturbed when i hear your callers talk about the fact that afdc and the court -- support people need is a bad thing. it's scary the amount of this information and distortion that people are willing to embrace her but i absolutely will vote

democratic, no matter who was on that ballot. i will vote democratic and i have never really made a statement like that and all of my 74 years. host: this is surely out of louisiana. republican, good morning. caller: good morning to you. i feel the first call you have from north carolina was right on with his statement. i also feel they had to get president trump out of office because he -- the money that was living ever country that could help us here. i definitely will vote republican in the midterms. and i think you for listening to my call. host: a few more of your comments on social media and text messaging. mary allen from washington, maryland saying women's rights,

economy and racism are the top issues for her. frank in oregon the liberal communist democrats have destroyed our great nation enough. out to honolulu, hawaii. a good early morning to you on the line for independents. caller: thank you, sir. the calls have been very interesting so far. i am not ideologically, i am beyond left and right or like to think i am. suffice it to say the two callers, i have to say the maga trumper kool-aid is a clear and present danger of what remains of democracy in this country. if the maga group takes over the country this year, trump, dissent a's or any of the cooley drunks --kool-aid drunks, we

might go shopping and go to a restaurant but our government will never be the same. there will never be a truly free and fair election again because people will be complaining about the last one being stolen. it is one big firehose of falsehoods. that is the term for what has been happening for the last five or six years. a corporation in california did a study on it. it is a classic old russian and chinese propaganda technique.

>> numerous books, many articles have been written about this. you can find it within minutes, but no one whose strength that kool-aid will do it including the person called first. >> even if he runs again donald trump won't be on the ballot in 2022, the midterm election. caller: i meant 2024. if the republican crowd takes over congress this year and then we get trump or desantis or anybody like them in 2024 per president, the game is over for what remains of democracy. that's what we are talking about. not inflation or gas prices.

these are weapons of mass distraction. another classic propaganda technique which trump seemed to be born knowing how to use these things. he is incompetent, he is mentally ill. he should be near politics. all this money spent, they won't let trump have anybody on there to defend him. the democrats think they know everything in the world, they don't know where they're living half the time.

i'm sick of that. host: that's robert indiana. we talked with a gallup poll on top issues among democrats and republicans, plenty of other polls that you can look to on this. the economy does keep coming up consistently in these polls. this is monmouth university poll from last week noting that half the public blames either -- names inflation or gas prices their highest priority. the economy in general up there as well as paying everyday bills. abortion which had registered less than 1% on that question in prior polls dating back to 2015 jumped up to 5% predominantly among democrats peered inflation and gas prices moved across a wide democratic -- demographic groups. wit -- monmouth university with

their breakdown of numbers. yesterday, republican governor chris sununu of new hampshire talking about the issue of jobs right now in this country and what it could mean in the fall. [video clip] >> recession is coming. the recession is coming, the fed i think has known this for a while. they've kind of ignored it. they should've been easing us into the right rates and where we need to go over a year ago. the treasury secretary who is saying it's not inevitable. of course it's inevitable. you don't need four years at dartmouth economics to know that when you add that there has to be an outcome and its high gas prices, high house prices. the price of a taco is getting unbearable for some folks. it hits lower didn't -- middle income families hard. >> what do you think the biden administration needs to do about

it if anything? >> there's a couple of things. i would fire the treasury secretary. i think she's completely misled america because she didn't want to own the bad news but that's part of public service. you have to ease folks into it and prevent -- present a glide path. the more the administration keeps telling people the recession isn't inevitable. gas prices might come down a little bit and that's wonderful. heating oil prices will still be at record rates this winter and just having people in their homes, elderly couples, just to heat their homes this winter, that fuel crisis has yet to rear its ugly head but it's coming. host: chris sununu, the governor of new hampshire yesterday on one of his points on inflation hitting some sectors. ♪