CBS anchor tries selling a good economy but quickly finds no voter agrees with him: 'People are really bummed out'

CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil discovered this week that he could not find a single person outside a New Hampshire grocery store who feels "good" about the economy.

The Biden administration claims the economy is doing great because of President Joe Biden, and if Americans don't feel the effects of the president's hard work, it's because it hasn't trickled down to them yet or it's because they're overly influenced by the media, which the administration claims are not doing a good enough job celebrating Biden's accomplishments.

But tell that to residents in Derry, New Hampshire.

Dokoupil, a co-anchor on "CBS Mornings," recently spoke to voters outside a grocery store there, and he could not find anyone feeling good about the economy despite claiming the state of the economy is "good news" for the president.

"I don't know what pocketbook they’re looking at, but it ain't mine," one voter told Dokoupil of the Biden administration's narrative. She explained she has to work two jobs to make ends meet.

Two other voters, a mother and a son, explained that six people live in their house — and five of them work.

"You know, it’s like, if you go back, like, 30 years, two incomes would have covered all of our expenses, probably," the son told Dokoupil.

Later, Dokoupil summarized his experience talking with voters outside the grocery store.

"People are really bummed out about the economy here in New Hampshire. Even if the overall big picture numbers are going in the right direction, and even if people's own personal experiences in general are going OK, there's a lot of gloom," he said. "Food prices, for example, are generally going up. And we talked to a bunch of people outside of a grocery store in Derry, New Hampshire — we couldn't find anybody feeling good about the economy."

Rather than recognizing the real issue — that prices are still going up despite inflation cooling — Dokoupil dismissed annoyance at the economy as "just human nature."

"Psychologically, you go into a store — if you're paying more for items that you get every week, that really sticks with you, it really annoys you, it gets you down. People were upset about it," he said.

"Yeah, they're making it. But are they bothered by the fact that frozen OJ has gone up double digits and that steak on Fridays — up double digits? Absolutely. And that's really driving people's perspective on things," he explained.

It's true that, in general, Americans are beginning to feel more positive about the direction of the economy. Whether Biden is responsible for that is debatable.

But it's hard to feel great about the cost of life today when you can remember prices of food, clothes, and other items before the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and subsequent inflation crisis.

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