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00:00 Speaker 1 Remember November 7, 2020. 00:05 Speaker 2 You had people discovering that Joe Biden was going to win the election and just bursting out of their houses and going out into the streets and dancing and making noise and high fiving each other. 00:20 Speaker 3 It's over. 00:22 Speaker 4 Best day of my life. 00:23 Speaker 5 Best day of the year. 00:24 Speaker 2 This was happening in cities across the country. People were celebrating in a way you just don't see anymore. And I thought that was an important moment to recall because it captured the joy that people felt about Biden winning, which was not really about Biden's program. People were just thrilled that Donald Trump. 00:42 Speaker 3 Was going to go, January 20 is going to be trash day at the White House because we're going to get rid of that orange piece of trash. 00:51 Speaker 1 Donald Trump, how people went from jubilant totally jaded and how Biden could maybe win him...

00:01 Speaker 1 From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobarro. This is the Daily. On Friday's show, we explored President Biden's political challenge with a core group of supporters, black voters. Today, his challenge with voters motivated by the economy at a time when it looks good on paper but still feels bad for so many Americans. My colleague Nate Comb says that to understand the situation, it helps to look back at another election 76 years ago. It's Monday, February 5. 00:55 Speaker 2 Nate, we just got the latest batch of economic news on Friday, which showed a surge in hiring a very strong U. S. Labor market. And it really highlighted this conundrum we've talked about a lot on the show, which is that we're living in a pretty healthy economy, and yet voters are still quite sour on the economy. And now that we've entered this general election phase of the presidential campaign, that dynamic looms as a pretty major question mark over the entire r...