Posted on 07/12/2022 8:35:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Democrats are facing their worst political environment in over a decade heading into November’s mid-term elections. Republicans lead the generic ballot and hold a solid structural advantage in competing for the House of Representatives. And despite concerns about candidate quality, the GOP is also favored to take control of the Senate.
The correlation between presidential approval and their party’s mid-term prospects also can’t be ignored. Joe Biden has hit the lowest poll numbers of his term, with a recent Times/Siena poll showing him at just 33 percent approval with only 13 percent believing the country is on the right track.
In response, Democrats have desperately tried to change the narrative by focusing on abortion and guns, but that’s gone over like a lead balloon because ultimately, those aren’t issues that affect the vast majority of Americans in their everyday lives. The economy and inflation are still at the top of any list of concerns.
In short, the fundamentals are just awful for the Democrats. That means they need to do something to influence the election that goes beyond actually enacting good policy, and if you listen closely, you’ll discern exactly what they are preparing.
Biden HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra says there's a "strong chance that we'll see a resurgence of the virus" later this year.
Biden campaigned on a promise to "shut down" the virus, but it was all a lie. pic.twitter.com/mmPIfZaht6
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 11, 2022
What evidence is there that we’ll have a massive, deadly COVID spike in the Winter? There isn’t much except the fact that we know the coronavirus is largely seasonal now. But even then, the virus is showing itself to be far less deadly than in the past due to a combination of weaker variants and widespread immunity (both natural and vaccine-induced).
Still, the administration is sounding the alarm, going so far as to extend the state of emergency again.
The United States will be extending the COVID-19 health emergency on Friday.
Friday will be 854 Days of 15 Days to Slow The Spread, but who’s counting?
— Dr. David Samadi (@drdavidsamadi) July 11, 2022
Then there’s Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been a ghost for the last few months. He popped back up on Tuesday to let Americans know that we can’t just “put the pandemic behind us.”
ANTHONY FAUCI: We can't just "put this pandemic behind us." pic.twitter.com/xqZStfenCU
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 12, 2022
If you’ve read this far, you probably see where I’m going with this. Prior to the 2020 election, Democrats used the threat of COVID as an excuse to push through election law changes in a variety of states. That included swing states like Pennsylvania. Mail-in balloting became common, with unmonitored drop boxes being placed around cities. Things like so-called “drive-thru voting” also became popularized as well as extensions that allowed ballots to be returned well after election day.
What that all added up to was a chaotic free-for-all of an election with very few guardrails, and that’s exactly what Democrats want to see again in November. You can even put aside the discussion over fraud. The fact is that Democrats benefit from ballot harvesting and mass mail-in voting. There’s a reason they wanted to federalize those practices while eliminating election security provisions like voter ID.
Republicans simply can not allow themselves to be run over by the same truck again. As the administration begins to push the COVID narrative more and more, the GOP should respond by making it clear that there will be no changes to election laws no matter what happens. Not at the federal level, and not at the state level where they have the power to dictate. In 2020, many red states lined up to do the Democrats’ bidding on this front. This time, things must be different.
I think most people are sick of the COVID hysteria and have pretty much gone on with their lives. To gin up another wave of hysteria would be tough especially since many people have gotten COVID and neither died or were hospitalized
Molly Hemmingway touched on this, at the end of Tucker's show, tonight. How they've (Dems) tried to change election laws, previously...but, that failed, so now they'll back door it.
This very well could be their sinister plan.
Nice little voting drop box ya got there. Sad if something happens to it.
Are any of these 14 residents “vax”d?
Everyone I know, who has/recently has had china virus has been jabbed, or....has been in close contact with someone recently booo$ted.
The October surprise will be that they will indict Prez Trump.
Half of those “Republicans” won their primaries using similar tactics - you think they are going to push back?
The virus doesn’t care who is tired of Covid and its impact on society. It’s whistling past the graveyard to loudly proclaim how you bravely don’t care — especially if you’re under 65 and have no particular reason to even think of risk to yourself. Risking your parents or grandparents is a different matter.
The timing of the next surge is not predictable, though right now Italy is seeing a very large spike in cases and deaths. The low in death count last year was right about now, mid July, and that was a somewhat lower level of Covid death count than the US has presently. The death count has been rising slowly in recent weeks. No reason that can’t continue right up to 5000 dead/day in January, which would beat last year’s high.
I’ll point out again that Italy doesn’t have any seats in the US House of Representatives and their surge in deaths is not likely related to such seats.
They’ll be choosing UNwisely, if so.
With the mess they’ve made of this country, in a year and a half.....even that won’t allow them to hide/distract from their damage.
Is that you, spreading fear porn, FRAUDci?
Just stop. As if we believe ANY numbers coming out of ANY gov’t., any more.
Go read World o Meters and call it a day.
I’m expecting stock market DOWn and/or World War IV.
📉📉📉
But then, I’m an optimist...wait....
The GOP needs to win some seats in the blue states, otherwise we'll have a DEM-controlled Senate and House again.
I’m ready for my booster vax fix. You wouldn’t want me to go cold turkey.
I need a drink.
They have all been vaxed. I haven’t.
Getting ready to steal the midterms. Got to fix 2020 and soon.
I would not put it past these despicable Marxists to do something like this. They're desperate. Of course the media will let them get away with it and promote whatever agenda the 'RATs put forth.
You could always stay home and hide under the bed.
Most people are sick of Covid, but still, the number of people I see still dutifully masked up is sometimes alarming.
However, I try to look on the bright side.
At least it tells me their political ideology and I know to avoid them.
More pre-election theater, just like all the videos of China in early 2020 before the Covid fear porn was unleashed on us.
And gullible folks like you, swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.
What person in their right mind these days trusts anything any government tells us? You cannot know if the claimed spike in cases and deaths is even real, much less what is causing it. The presumption that it’s from Covid is simply guessing. It could be the shots are finally taking their toll and being attributed to Covid and who is going to prove otherwise? The governments who pushed the shots and have lied to us every day since this virus came on the scene?
Seriously?
Only a gullible fool would take what governments tell us through the media at face value.
Bloomberg article provides details of the government privileges which accompany extending the PHE. As long as this administration is making the rules, our economy will never recover.
The new covid strain from Mars?
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