Seven Questions for 2024 and Politics: How Biden Lies Were Vicious of Trump in Congress, and Why Democrats voted for him
Democrats will surely spend millions to wipe away voters’ Trump “brain fog,” as Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro called it, to remind them of Trump’s views, many of which have been increasingly anti-democratic on the campaign trail.
Biden’s approval ratings with younger Americans have been lagging. Many younger voters voted for Biden because they thought he would oust Donald Trump from office.
But they’ve been targeted in a three-year campaign by Trump and allies. He put more loyalists in his campaigns and state parties, and there are fewer Republicans who will stand up to him in Congress.
Trump’s attempt to stay in power did not work because of institutions like the election officials and Congress that held and did their jobs.
The election lies by Trump made it more difficult for the elections officials. They faced threats and lawsuits and many decided to leave their posts rather than face what they’ve faced. That’s a lot of institutional knowledge that’s walked out the door, and there’s no telling what that will mean for the vote count.
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What are the Top Issues for Democrats? What are they telling us about the economy, what are they saying? How do Democratic candidates have gotten their way?
It’s the top issue for voters, and they are in a bad mood about it. Polls continue to show Americans are pessimistic about the state of the economy despite strong signs – solid growth, low unemployment and declining inflation.
President Biden is to blame for higher food prices and mortgage rates, because people don’t like them. His ratings for handling the economy are low and could be a problem for his reelection chances.
The president and his team have to hope the economy remains strong and that inflation doesn’t get out of hand in order to get the Federal Reserve to loosen its belt.
Expect Democrats to use the issue to get voters to go to the polls, even if Republican-governed states pass restrictions.
Biden’s handling of foreign policy has hurt his presidency. When it comes to Israel, in particular, the war has fractured the Democratic base.
People like anti-vaccine, environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr; former Green Party spoiler Jill Stein; and professor Cornel West are running, and there could be a No Labels candidate. No one is quite sure how they will factor in, but Trump has a pretty firm base of voters.
Democrats worry that disaffected voters, who would have chosen Biden over Trump, could vote for one of these others and open a path for Trump back to the White House. Remember, Trump did not get above 45% in 2016 or 2020. A third-party that pulls votes from Biden would help open a path for Trump back to the White House.
New Hampshire will hold its presidential caucus on Jan.23, followed by Iowa two days later. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has staked a claim in Iowa and former Trump U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has done the same in New Hampshire. Let me know if they’ve succeeded in convincing voters to go with them instead of Trump.
The End of the Trump/Biden Divide: Why Do We Need a Second Trump? How Do We Expect to See Them?
There could be a situation where Trump is on trial during a general election. Georgia, for example, has proposed a start date for example of Aug. 5 with cameras in the courtroom. It’s hard to see how an O.J. Simpson-style trial helps Trump in a general election. Of course, this is someone who has always believed it’s better to be in the spotlight than not.
This is a serious issue. The way elections are run in the US has always distinguished it from other countries.
With the Iowa caucuses less than two weeks away, a rematch of Trump and Joe Biden is highly likely — and wouldn’t be anything close to the usual competition between “four more years” and a reasonably sane, relatively coherent change of direction and pace. We’re on the cusp of something much scarier. The ambitions and fury of Trump have been growing since 2020. The plans for a second Trump administration are darker and more detailed than the one before them, were worked out by the ideologues aligned with him. He seems better positioned if elected to slip free of the constraints he has been put under before, and to junk the limits that he didn’t do away with before. Yesterday’s Trump was a Komodo dragon next to today’s Godzilla.
Trump talks that way all the time, ranting that we’ll “no longer have a country” if Biden and other Democrats are in charge. Biden’s warning about Trump is equally blunt, and it could assume ever greater prominence as he calculates how to win re-election despite widespread economic apprehension, persistently low approval ratings and attacks on his age and acuity.
“Let’s be clear about what’s at stake in 2024,” he said at a campaign event in Boston last month. Donald Trump and his party are going to destroy American democracy.
If the people on the losing side think those on the winning side are trying to steal the election, how do they accept the results? The final battle we may be witnessing is between a governable and an ungovernable America, a faintly civil and a floridly uncivil one. And it wouldn’t necessarily end with a Trump defeat in November. It might just get uglier.
Biden’s 2020 Campaign for Reelection as a Campaigning Echo of the First Supreme Court Decision, or Why We Care About the Future of Our Country
The experts are worried about Trump and not Biden. But Trump and his team are speaking to concerns regularly voiced far right Republican voters.
Next week the Biden reelection campaign will host two presidential campaigning events, as the campaign starts into a higher gear. The president’s message will be unmistakable and stark, or as campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez put it, “We are running a campaign like the fate of our democracy depends on it. Because it does.”
Campaign communications director Michael Tyler said the Biden campaign and the president himself see this moment as uniquely dire. And their message might as well be cast in neon. It isn’t subtle.
With just a handful of exceptions, since announcing he planned to run for reelection last spring, Biden hasn’t really campaigned publicly. But he has discussed many of these themes in private fundraisers.
A state Supreme Court race last spring in Wisconsin, in which abortion was a motivating issue for voters, is indicative of how well the issue has come along. Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices who formed the conservative majority that overturned Roe, though on the campaign trail he has tried to avoid being pinned down on specific abortion policy. The Biden campaign doesn’t intend to allow Trump to escape blame for restrictive abortion laws now in place in red states all over the country.
A multi- state tour dedicated to reproductive rights will be launched by Vice President Harris on January 22, in Wisconsin. That’s the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, which was overturned by the Supreme Court last year.
These visits have electoral significance as well. South Carolina will be the first state to hold a Democratic-party primary next month, while Pennsylvania is a swing state likely to determine the outcome of the presidential race in ten years. The state will almost certainly go Republican in November, but the overwhelming majority of Democratic voters there are African American. Black voters were a key part of Biden’s coalition in 2020 but Biden allies say they have work to do to keep them in his column.
The Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston will be visited by Biden on Monday. The white supremacist mass shooting happened at that historically black church. There, Biden will talk about another motivating theme for his campaign — pushing back against extremism and political violence, drawing a line from the Mother Emanuel shooting to the unrest in Charlottesville, Va., and Jan. 6.
“The threat that Donald Trump posed in 2020 to American democracy has grown even more dangerous than it was when President Biden ran last time,” said deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks on a call with reporters.
Biden and his team are building a campaign around an increasingly likely rematch with Former President Donald Trump. In Valley Forge, Pa., on Saturday, campaign officials say, Biden will lay out the stakes for this election — for American democracy and freedom — in a location with Revolutionary War symbolism. But Saturday isn’t just any day: It’s the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, when Trump supporters violently tried to help him cling to power after he lost to Biden in 2020.