Charlotte Mayor: Democrats Are On Message On The Economy

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CHARLOTTE — Mayor Anthony Foxx, who serves as one of President Obama’s surrogates as well as host of the Democratic convention, told TPM after his speech Tuesday night that Republican glee over Democratic messaging is unfounded.

Republicans said in the run-up to the kickoff of the convention here that Democratic messaging was showing cracks.They pointed to Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s remark Sunday that people aren’t better off than they were four years ago (which he later retracted) and Obama’s restatement that he’d give himself an “incomplete” on the economy as signs the party doesn’t know how to talk about the central issue of the campaign.

Foxx dismissed that.

“People are saying the same thing, which is that the president has made the economy better,” he said. “Everyone [critics] gets caught up in the syntax, but we’re all making the same points.”

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