. >>> let's talk with our expert cnn contributor wesley lowrie and also alice stuart and maria cordova. let's talk about where you pull the deficit money and try to make things better. resonating particularly there in the rust belt when you're talking about medicaid and medicare? >> absolutely. i think it underscores another theme that democrats have been really pushing which is healer, right? medicare and medicaid really continue to underscore how important health care is and how hypocritical the republicans have been. look. they supposedly passed this huge middle class tax cut earlier in the trump administration that was supposed to be a big feather in their cap and nobody is campaigning on that tax cut. why? because it didn't work for the middle class and, in fact, when the president, quote/unquote, promised just very recently that there was going to be another tax cut for the middle class, he kind of right there admitted that the first one he passed was specifically for the richest and for corporations and that tax cut has cost a ballooning of the deficit which interestingly enough