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.
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AP seems to think that black Americans are all leftists. That is not the case.
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.
Only 95%
Loony toons
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.
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.
Just like everyone else in both parties.
When has Biden NOT been a Communist?
Oh yeah, he doesn’t have to make decisions anymore, so who cares.
North Korea has a more trustworthy news agency.
If Biden shifts toward the center the Squad will gut him.
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.
“Pivot to the center” my ass. More fake news from the fake newsies.
AP is sickening thee is no “ move to the center”
WHAT “pivot to center”? He doubled down on every radical commie initiative.
Pivot? Such an imagination they have.
Buden hasn’t shifted to the center. He’s pretending to shift to the center. He’s a liar.
Biden hasn’t shifted to the center. He’s pretending to shift to the center. He’s a liar.
Brandon hasn’t shifted to the center. He’s pretending to shift to the center. He’s a liar.
Remember the meme that Biden was the “moderate candidate?”
How did that work out?
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