Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan (Ohio) was on “Morning Joe” Friday attempting to explain how he and his party can go about winning back hard working, middle American voters from President Donald Trump in 2020.

Rep. Tim Ryan joins @Morning_Joe to discuss what voters the Democratic Party needs to target in the 2020 presidential election. https://t.co/O6bJXrn78h — MSNBC (@MSNBC) May 24, 2019

“The workers are still suffering,” says Rep. Ryan, who is running for president.

He also said he just can’t understand why his party doesn’t want to “take on” the economy.

Right now on MSNBC, Tim Ryan is talking about how @realDonaldTrump failed to bring back manufacturing jobs and the anchors are agreeing. Nobody tell the Bureau of Labor Statistics: pic.twitter.com/WZOM3fxKwG — Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) May 24, 2019

Maybe he should read this from February published by none other than NBC:

The U.S. has added 454,000 manufacturing jobs since Trump took office in January 2017, some of the biggest gains in twenty years, according to jobs data.

C’mon, Tim. Even Joe Biden and AOC admit things are really good right now economically.

‘Utterly pathetic’! Joe Biden admits the economy’s doing great, credits the president (no, not the current one) https://t.co/M2989cntI4 — Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 20, 2019

AOC makes SURPRISING ADMISSION about the economy under President Trump https://t.co/J5KD9isN0Y — Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 13, 2019

But there was one thing Ryan said to which Democrats and Speaker Nancy Pelosi should pay attention:

“Everybody does want to talk about (Trump’s) taxes and talk about the Mueller report and everything else. We have got to be very, very disciplined in how we talk about the real problems that people are dealing with every single day.”

Perhaps Rep. Ryan could do a town hall with the voters of Ohio and explain to them why his party wants to do away with the electoral college.

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