Posted on 05/21/2024 2:18:02 PM PDT by Signalman
President Joe Biden is trailing, and liberal pundits are increasingly saying he has mainly himself to blame.
The New York Times’s Ezra Klein unfurled seven theories for why Biden is losing to former President Donald Trump. “The electorate hasn’t turned on Democrats; a crucial group of voters has turned on Biden,” he writes.
Biden is losing to Trump in states where Democratic Senate candidates are still ahead. “The point here is that Democrats have a Joe Biden problem, not a partywide problem,” New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait wrote. “Regular, mainstream Democratic candidates are holding up just fine in the purple states.”
That’s why the Democrats in those races are in some cases running away from Biden. “If you go out there and do a focus group, the focus groups all say, ‘He’s 200 years old. You got to be kidding me.’ And the worst part about it is for unaffiliated voters or people that haven’t made up their mind, they look at this and say: ‘You have to be kidding us. These are our choices?’ And they indict us for not taking it seriously,” the Hill quoted an unnamed Democratic senator as saying.
“We’ll see how much gravity we can defy,” the senator said of Democrats running ahead of Biden in the battleground states, implying Biden could have reverse coattails.
Jeremy Mayer pleaded in a USA Today op-ed for Biden to drop out. “He sincerely and accurately believed that he was the Democrat with the best chance to beat Trump [in 2020],” Mayer wrote of Biden. “Now, he is one of the few national Democrats who could get Trump reelected.”
“Mr. President, you’re one of the few Americans old enough to remember when conventions were fascinating and powerful,” he continued. “They’ve become predictable and almost pointless. Why not pull a surprise on the Republicans, and let the convention pick the nominee for the first time in decades?”
Think of the ratings, Mr. President!
Political consultant Douglas MacKinnon is a Republican, but he doesn’t think Democrats should give Biden the option. “Again, every single Democrat I speak with wishes they had someone other than Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris as their nominee come November,” he wrote. “Be that someone California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker or Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.”
“If Democrats were to nominate Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, he’d beat Trump like LeBron James posting up Kevin Hart,” Mayer wrote. “There are many others, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey.”
“There is still a very viable escape hatch come the convention in August should the Democrats choose to use it. An escape hatch that would allow them to switch out Biden for Newsom or another candidate,” MacKinnon continued. “Until that hatch is welded closed, I believe it will remain a realistic option. An option desired by countless Democratic voters across the nation.”
This is also what many Republicans most fear — having nominated Trump, the Democrats switch out Biden for someone younger and with more plausible deniability about inflation and the border.
Trump’s lead is too small, and Biden and Harris are both too unlikely to cooperate with this scenario, for this to come to pass. Biden has so far swept the Democratic primaries, winning by landslide margins even when “uncommitted,” his only real opponent, gets a nontrivial share of the vote. It wouldn’t look very small-d democratic to replace him with someone who didn’t bother to run in the first place.
But it is a trend in elite Democratic and liberal opinion that should worry the Biden camp. If this is what people are willing to contemplate with Trump ahead by 1.1 points nationally in the RealClearPolitics polling average, what happens if the Democrats lose ground? Or if Trump gets a mistrial, or even an acquittal bounce, should he not be convicted in the New York hush money trial?
The Biden campaign would like Democrats to be patient. Trump’s polling lead isn’t that big. The polls arguably understated Democratic support in the midterm elections and some special elections. Team Biden believes it has the iden campaign would like Democrats to be patient. Trump’s polling lead isn’t that big. The polls arguably understated Democratic support in the midterm elections and some special elections. Team Biden believes it has the better ground game. The decision to debate suggests Bidenworld has some sense that the incumbent is losing, but outside allies see a five-alarm fire.
The decision to debate suggests Bidenworld has some sense that the incumbent is losing, but outside allies see a five-alarm fire.
“What I fear Biden’s allies will do is deny the polls until Democrats wake up, as they have before, to the shocking news that Trump has won,” Klein wrote. “The first step toward winning is changing course when you’re losing.”
We’ll see if Democratic convention delegates arrive at a similar conclusion.
Biden has been behind since September of last year!
But they didn’t want to pay attention to the polls, but now they are starting to!
The riots and destruction will be ramped up greatly from 2020. Take proper precautions.
You mean they don’t have something up their sleeve? Biden gonna take his loss like a man?
Ezra Klein is Mr. Journ-o-list himself. Carries a lot of weight in Commieland.
Does it matter? The cheat machine doesn’t care.
News Flash - President Retard is a Loser
The whole point of the 2020 (BLM/Antifa) and now 2024 (Queers for Palestine) chaos is to fatigue the public into submission.
That is to get the public to throw up their hands and say “Okay, we’ll vote for you just make this chaos stop!”
This is my favorite part:
“ IfDemocrats were to nominate Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, he’d beat Trump like LeBron James posting up Kevin Hart,” Mayer wrote. “There are many others, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey
Oh my. Such a talented group of randos, my favorite being the loopy Sen Booker. Pete Buttigieg must have the sads he didn’t make the list. The only one I truly fear is Big Mike.
> “There is still a very viable escape hatch come the convention in August should the Democrats choose to use it.” <
It would have been nice had the author told us what that “very viable escape hatch” was.
Biden already has way more than enough delegates to win the 2024 Democrat nomination on the first ballot. 1,976 are needed to win. Biden already has 3,525.
If SlowJoe doesn’t want to drop out, what’s the escape hatch? Does some Grand Poobah in the DNC have the power to disqualify all of Biden’s delegates, just because?
Ha...Ha...Ha! How ironic that a criminal loser is losing.
The Democrats nominated someone whom I bet was showing signs of impairment back in 2020, especially to those closest to him, and have set him up with the most malevolent administration in our history. Anyone who is paying attention knows this, even if they won’t say it out loud. Even people I know who I know are going to vote for him are not enthusiastic about him, but about his protecting of things such as abortion. How can they be surprised that he is losing? Oh, I know it is a hateful thought because his loss would impair their goal of forcing their will on everyone else and require a lot of them to find new work, but that’s politics.
Leftists. Not “liberal”. Liberal implies tolerance, the last thing leftists are.
He is losing his mind...
And ‘Big Mike’ has already said that s/he doesn’t want the job.
I know that Wayne A Root has said he suspects that s/he will come out of nowhere at the Dem convention as the nominee by acclamation, but I don’t think that’ll happen.
“ That is to get the public to throw up their hands and say “Okay, we’ll vote for you just make this chaos stop!”
I will not.
Joe isn’t in control. It is his handlers who are in control. Joe is just a convenient scapegoat.
> The only one I truly fear is Big Mike. <
Same here. Michelle is lazy. She does not want to be President. But she might accept being our Queen.
“Michelle, only you can stop that evil racist Trump! And Barack will handle everything after you win. All you need do is wave to the crowds, and sign a few papers now and again. Just like the Queen of England!”
I can see that happening.
IF big Mike is “elected” with 100 million “votes” she will be a puppet president like Joe. She will sign what she is told to sign, say what she is told to say.
We will have two puppet presidents in a row.
Electorate has not turned on Democrats? Folks need to remember that it is the Democrats in key positions throughout Federal AND States that have allowed this creep to violate law at will without repercussions. Think about what they have done to J6 defendants. Think about the long history of abuse to Trump. Think about the COVID lockdown fiasco. Think about the mandate of electric cars. Think about red hot inflation. Think about unfettered illegal immigration. Think about their support of Iran and Hamas. Think about betraying Israel. Think about Biden’s burgeoning regulation assault and looming tax hikes.
Biden is the same as I said about Obama: He is on the wrong side of EVERY issue, so it is obvious his intentions are bad. Even a moron gets something right once in a while, if only by accident. . . .
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