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Biden risks progressives, Blacks with pivot to the center
The Associated Press ^ | March 2, 2022 | By STEVE PEOPLES, ALAN FRAM and FARNOUSH AMIRI

Posted on 03/02/2022 5:13:43 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is signaling an election-year shift to the center, embracing a strategy he hopes will protect fragile Democratic majorities in Congress. But he’s risking a revolt from key voices across his party’s sprawling coalition.

In his first State of the Union address Tuesday night, the Democratic president embraced Republican calls to strengthen the nation’s southern border and barely mentioned climate change. He glossed over concerns about voting rights and spent little time heralding his historic decision to nominate the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. On domestic issues, he was perhaps most blunt in disavowing the push from some Black Lives Matter activists to “defund the police.”

The calculated messages, threaded through one of the most important speeches of Biden’s young presidency, marked a clear effort to reset the political climate for Democrats. Polls suggest the party is losing support from almost every demographic at the outset of the 2022 campaign. But Biden’s effort to stabilize the party could alienate the coalition of Black people, young people, progressives and independents who delivered him the presidency in 2020 and will be needed again this year.

His address intensified a debate inside the party about how best to proceed this year, with many veteran lawmakers embracing Biden’s tone while younger, more progressive critics on the left warned he wasn’t connecting with the Democrats’ most loyal voters.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brandon; dementia; election2022; journalism; marxism; media; midterms2022; press; socialism; sotu
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1 posted on 03/02/2022 5:13:43 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AP seems to think that black Americans are all leftists. That is not the case.


2 posted on 03/02/2022 5:16:23 PM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What the AP calls the “center” is still the left.

Their just trying to hide the blatant out-in-the-open communist policies that Puppet Biden is known for.


3 posted on 03/02/2022 5:19:40 PM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: BenLurkin

Only 95%


4 posted on 03/02/2022 5:20:27 PM PST by Houserino
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Loony toons


5 posted on 03/02/2022 5:25:12 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is BS. Biden hasn’t changed his views in the least. And if he pimps the center-right for votes, the leftwing rat bastards will understand. They can read between the lines just as we can.


6 posted on 03/02/2022 5:26:09 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Finish the wall, restart the Keystone XL pipeline, reopen oil and gas leases, stop the resettlement of illegals, recall your progressive SC nomination, halt the push for your BBB plan, then we’ll talk.


7 posted on 03/02/2022 5:26:18 PM PST by throwthebumsout
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To: hinckley buzzard

Just like everyone else in both parties.


8 posted on 03/02/2022 5:34:55 PM PST by skeeter
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To: BenLurkin

When has Biden NOT been a Communist?

Oh yeah, he doesn’t have to make decisions anymore, so who cares.


9 posted on 03/02/2022 5:35:09 PM PST by epluribus_2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

North Korea has a more trustworthy news agency.


10 posted on 03/02/2022 5:37:29 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If Biden shifts toward the center the Squad will gut him.


11 posted on 03/02/2022 5:50:28 PM PST by bigbob
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well Joey Double Dip can try to reset the political climate for Democrats all he wants but when gas hits 6 bucks a gallon this summer the games up for the Donks.


12 posted on 03/02/2022 5:54:59 PM PST by technically right
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Pivot to the center” my ass. More fake news from the fake newsies.


13 posted on 03/02/2022 5:56:23 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas." - Col. David Crockett to the U.S. Congress.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AP is sickening thee is no “ move to the center”


14 posted on 03/02/2022 5:58:22 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

WHAT “pivot to center”? He doubled down on every radical commie initiative.


15 posted on 03/02/2022 6:02:15 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If truckers quit their jobs, society would collapse. If politicians quit their jobs...HALLELUJAH!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pivot? Such an imagination they have.


16 posted on 03/02/2022 6:05:59 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Buden hasn’t shifted to the center. He’s pretending to shift to the center. He’s a liar.


17 posted on 03/02/2022 6:09:46 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Biden hasn’t shifted to the center. He’s pretending to shift to the center. He’s a liar.


18 posted on 03/02/2022 6:10:22 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Brandon hasn’t shifted to the center. He’s pretending to shift to the center. He’s a liar.


19 posted on 03/02/2022 6:10:46 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: lastchance

Remember the meme that Biden was the “moderate candidate?”
How did that work out?


20 posted on 03/02/2022 6:19:47 PM PST by henkster (He's got a day time job; he's doing all right)
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