Posted on 07/13/2024 9:25:28 AM PDT by Signalman
In the two plus weeks since Joe Biden fell in the Orchestra Pit on national television at the Atlanta Presidential debate, all hell has broken loose in the Democrat Party.
Post-debate, a large and growing number of Democrat public officials have decided that it is time for Joe to go, (so far) totaling 19 House Members, 1 (New York) Lt. Governor, and 1 U.S. Senator. The left-wing MSM has written numerous editorials and op-ed pieces calling for Biden’s ouster as the nominee and/or resignation as President. The Democrat leadership has remained increasingly vague about whom they want to lead to the Democrat ticket. And former President Barack Obama’s advisors have increasingly talked down Biden’s chances, and Obama himself may have had a hand in actor/director George Clooney’s column in which Clooney begged Joe to go.
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, who has not asked Biden to step down, has, in particular, been clanging the electoral alarm:
I'm sure President Biden has a different view of his prospects in this election than I do, but we should be having a discussion about that…The White House, in the time since that disastrous debate, I think, has done nothing to really demonstrate that they have a plan to win this election, that they have a convincing plan to win in the battleground states where we have to win in order to win the election. And they need to do that.
Meanwhile, the few strong Democrat Biden backers, including his family and personal hangers-on, are still making excuses or trying to explain away Biden’s horrible performance during the debate.
None of this is good news for Joe Biden or the Democrat Party.
So, let’s again look at the 2024 Presidential election fundamentals, and what they portend for the future:
The RealClearPolitics national average now gives a 2.9% edge to Donald Trump. Trump is also leading by 4.1% in the average of the battleground state polls. Both of these averages are slightly down from Trump’s high point of a few days ago (as a result of two polls that are slightly suspicious). New states, including Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Virginia, that are usually safe Democrat, are now becoming battleground states. Heavily Democrat New York is also closer than expected.
Donald Trump has had an edge in the national polling average since September of 2023. In 2016 and 2020, Trump was consistently down in the polling average, often by a lot, to both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. And in those prior races, his support in the polls was consistently underestimated. So far, Trump has even polled better against Joe Biden than Ronald Reagan did against Jimmy Carter in the 1980 cycle.
Biden’s RealClearPolitics national job approval rating is still averaging roughly 40%, which is unchanged from what it was before the debate. This number is similar, or even lower, to the approval ratings of former Presidents George H. W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, and Gerald Ford in the last year of their presidencies. All three men lost their re-election campaigns. It is also lower than was Donald Trump’s in 2020.
Donald Trump’s retrospective job approval ratings as President are far higher than are Joe Biden’s:
More registered voters believe former President Donald Trump would do a better job than President Joe Biden tackling two of the top issues of the 2024 campaign, the economy and immigration, according to an exclusive poll by USA TODAY/Suffolk University taken after Biden's disastrous debate with Trump. The poll also found voters view Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, more capable of handling national security issues and dealing with China.
Biden received higher marks than Trump on just two of six key issues surveyed: handling race relations and health care. Perhaps most troubling for Biden: 51% of respondents said they now approve of Trump's job performance when he was president from 2017 to 2021, compared to 41% who said they approve of Biden's current job performance.
Joe Biden’s five major problems continue to follow him and drag him down, especially his obvious advancing senility (which can only get worse) that has driven so many prominent members of his own party to call for him to step down. Also, the economy is slowing down; a new criminal attack from illegal aliens seems to happen every other week; the war in Gaza continues and may spread to Lebanon, with anti-Semite Democrats continuing to riot in the U.S.; and Biden’s corruption continues to be exposed.
Joe Biden is foolishly duplicating Jimmy Carter’s strategy of running for re-election largely by demonizing his opponent, which famously did not work in 1980. That year, Carter attracted severe criticism for the vehemence of his attacks on Reagan, which led even the MSM, and Barbara Walters, to criticize his “meanness issue.” Carter was not satisfied to criticize Reagan’s record; he also began suggesting that Reagan was both a “racist” and a “warmonger” and that if he took office “Americans might be separated, black from white, Jew from Christian...” Carter insisted that the 1980 election “will help to decide what kind of world we live in” and “whether we have war or peace.” (Presidential Campaigns, Paul F. Boller, Jr., Revised Edition)
There have been three significant public events for Joe Biden since the debate – his interview with pretend-journalist-and-Democrat partisan hack George Stephanopoulos; his speech at a NATO event; and his press conference after the NATO event. The main takeaways from these are that Joe Biden cannot act in a non-senile manner, and that he continues to say things that are particularly embarrassing.
To be continued…
Evil never disappears it’s always lurking and waiting for it’s chance to strike
R.E.M. - It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY
That’s right and why DJT needs super tight security.
I think all this is overstated. It would be true 20 years ago but the cheating, erosion of voter ID laws and 10 of millions of illegals have enabled a fire wall for the rat’s control. 22 should have been a red monsoon given the state of things and we barely got the House.
when Trump wins, I look forward to the 100’s of millions of Democrats leaving the US and taking their illegal criminals with them- and heading to Venezuala or NK-
After flouting democratic norms to go after Trump and his supporters, the Democrats are doing the same against their own presidential nominee, just because his polls are now lagging by low single digits. That’s because a scheme once used against an adversary often gets turned inwards.
I guess it comes down to this: What is the standard or threshold under which a candidate should be removed or forced to step aside at this point in the campaign, after he has won all the primaries?
He’s clearly old. He’s clearly weakening. There is good reason to doubt he can make it through a full term.
At the same time, he is clearly alive, and clearly cognizant of what is going on around him. He does not meet the standard for removal from office under the 25th amendment.
Everybody knew he was old when the party establishment assured him a largely uncontested primary. The only thing that has changed is that people are alarmed because his polling is very bad. The polling of all the likely candidates to replace him is also very bad.
My view is that these reservations should have been expressed a year ago, and he should not have faced an uncontested primary. I think the party establishment should not have assured him an uncontested primary and I don’t think they’re entitled to a mulligan now that the delegates are already pledged.
The voters should choose the president, not George Clooney and the NYT editorial board.
If this attempted coup or insurrection against the duly nominated candidate succeeds, future Democrat nominations are gonna be eventful, to say the least. Every time a nominee falls behind in the polls, he is gonna be forced out. This is the reason Democrats haven’t torn up the rules and selected a new candidate. If there are no rules, are the Democrats even an organized party, or just a loose organization of political warlords?
Thanks for the REM link.
A live performance in Atlanta 1995 in the long defunct Omni.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKTF_DuGuS8
Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Clapper, Page, Rice, Brennen, Hayden all want one heartbeat to stop and they are pros at making that happen globally.
Those ^ folks never served the United States of America, they served foreign governments and themselves. They are all domestic enemies.
I don’t fear for Trump.
Epstein was a construct of the intelligence community; a Jason Bourne like construct.
He was isolated and killed quite easily.
The Trump threat is different and must be handled politically as much as they don’t want to have to play that game. He’s not of their making and he’s popular with every responsible gun owner in America.
The plan is to prevent him from getting elected and if he does Gulliver him with a thousand little stakes and twine.
Actually it worked just fine at first. The Democrats ran the same campaign against Reagan that they had run against Goldwater 16 years earlier. People who would have moved from the D column into the R column fell into the U column instead.
At first the Democrats didn't want to debate Reagan because putting him on the same stage with Carter would have granted him legitimacy. But after Reagan debated John Anderson, it forced the Democrats' hand.
In the first debate between Reagan and Carter, Reagan came across as everybody's grandfather or favorite uncle. He simply exuded confidence and safety. By contrast, Carter came across as a prim little prig, a thoroughly unpleasant man. After the debate, cracks began to appear in the dam. Voters began moving from the U column into the R column.
The dam broke 24 hours before the election. It was Pat Cadell who had to sit down with Carter and tell him his clock was going to be thoroughly cleaned. I'll paraphrase what Cadell said.
Mr. President, yesterday Mr. and Mrs. America held a discussion in front of their bathroom mirrors when shaving or putting on makeup. It went like this:"Can I in good conscience vote for four more years of decline, weakness, impotence, malaise and silly statements like nobody really knows what causes inflation? The Democrats are saying terrible things about Reagan, but I can't believe them after seeing Reagan on TV. He looks like a better man than Carter with better policy ideas.
"My back is against the wall. My family's back is against the wall. The country's back is against the wall. We can't have another four years of this. I have to vote for Reagan no matter what the Democrats say about him. We can't go down this path any farther."
People as a rule won't vote for radical change unless they see no other option. That's what happened in 1980 and is happening now.
Maybe ONE person has been charged with double-voting or fraudulent voting, although from last election's post hoc analysis, tens of millions of fraudulent votes were injected in the count.
What does this mean?
Still completely a mystery who will win.
Tens of thousands standing in all kinds of weather watching Trump fly in two hours late every couple days and dance to the moron's song "I'm Proud to Be An American" is just a fool's errand. Not to say exquisitely boring.
You all recall that Trump was packing them in in 2010, while Biden was having 10-person rallies and making daily gaffes every couple of days all summer 2020 and we were all laughing at him and smug and dreaming of an easy landslide victory for Trump and huge coattails for others.
All for naught.
No meaningful corrective legislation to undo electronic voting fraud. Morons in GOP want to ENCOURAGE and ENLARGE vote harvesting AKA fraud by mail.
No institution of paper ballots except in maybe one out of 3000 counties in the US.
Endless ranting on the alternative networks haranging people to 'get out the vote' and 'do your part to prevent the Big Steal' when you can't do JACK in the face of ongoing, real-time vote fraud unless you are a specific kind of LEO with standing or whatever you call it.
Patriotic Americans who would like to do so have NO power to intervene in active, in-your-face, fraud.
Been waiting for our legislators and DOJ to do something but nothing meaningful has happened.
So what is next?
Don't answer: "Well what are YOU doing?" because I'm not a cop. I'm not in the GOP inner circle. I'm not running an election machine company or a hired hacker of them. There is nothing I can do.
I agree. The number of Godless individuals are greater than those who fear Him. Not optimistic at all about Trump’s chances. I know God is a majority against anyone or group but sometimes He let’s us have what we think we want. And he still punishes sin.
“...Biden fell in the Orchestra Pit on national television at the Atlanta Presidential debate...”
Somehow, I missed that one. Darn it.
Biden Democrats support open borders, the unlimited importation of 10-15 million unvetted migrants, from some 170 countries into your communities, for one reason:
<><>to increase Dem voting strength
<><>to boost Dem representation in Congress where needed.
Dems don’t even need migrants to vote to get those benefits.
How they plan to steal it this time
Battleground America ^ | 7/10/24 | Tara Servatius
Posted on 7/11/2024, 8:06:56 AM by Babsig
Talk radio 989 WORD Greenville SC:
<><>they register the illegals at the migrate centers,
<><>get the ballots mailed there to then harvest them.
<><>Most illegals dont even know they registered to vote, and have already moved away.
<><>But the centers will use the ballots to boost Dems.
<><>plus Biden gets a second term.
It’s fun to watch
Senator Bennet said this:
*** The White House, in the time since that disastrous debate, I think, has done nothing to really demonstrate that they have a plan to win this election, that they have a convincing plan to win in the battleground states where we have to win in order to win the election. And they need to do that.***
Hey, Senator, the WH DOES have a plan to *win* this election. It’s the same plan they used last time, and have been using for years and years.
You Democrats pretend that cheating doesn’t exist, but counting fraudulent ballots IS CHEATING, pure and simple.
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