Margaret Talev: Voters Don’t Care About Signal Chats, They Are Thinking About the Economy

TALEV: “There is this playbook of blame the journalists or try to diminish them or accuse them of having done something wrong here. But I think, you know, there’s also the political component to this, which is how much do most Americans care. And I just like happened to be listening to a voter focus group last night that wasn’t about this. And voters are thinking about the economy. Voters are thinking about their jobs. I don’t think at this moment that most American voters are like, what’s going on on Signal chains? And so what you’re going to have and the challenge for not just Democrats, but the challenge for people who are concerned about the national security apparatus, people who are inside intelligence agencies and are still in the government, people who want to protect the government from other countries or potential adversaries seeing stuff, the challenge is going to be, how do you apply pressure on this administration to change if the public barometer is what is going to decide how they want to see it.”