Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told President Joe Biden in a meeting last year that he would need to lean into frustrations with the economy rather than tout his own accomplishments on it, according to a report.

Sanders said that Biden needed to target his political opposition in the pitch he made last year. The Vermont senator told the Washington Post that he believes Biden and the Democrats are in a “bubble” in which they think they can tell people the economy is without issue.

“The bubble is extraordinary: Democrats seem to think — many of them — that, only if we can explain all that we have accomplished, people will come on board. But that ignores the pain ordinary people are now experiencing,” the senator said.

“He has got to lay out a progressive agenda that speaks to the needs of working people, and promise if he has a Democratic majority in the House and Senate that he will implement that in the first few months of his term,” he said.

Biden had made Bidenomics a part of his reelection pitch for much of 2023, but the effort did not appear to resonate, and the White House and his campaign have leaned into other matters, such as abortion, in Biden’s bid for another four years.

During the president’s State of the Union address on Thursday, he leaned into the frustrations people are feeling with “shrinkflation” — a tactic in which less of a product is given for the same price.

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Biden used the topic to discuss inflation, which has remained above average during his presidency, while placing the blame on companies allegedly ripping off consumers.

The push comes as polls show Biden is vulnerable in the November election, and he is trailing former President Donald Trump in various states and across the country.