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Average JOE Biden
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[link=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/joe-bidens-speech-trump-republicans/671326/?utm_content=edit-promo&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=2022-09-02T12%3A31%3A56&utm_campaign=the-atlantic]https://www.theatlantic.c…_campaign=the-atlantic[/link]
David Frum:[h1]The Justification for Bidens Speech[/h1] [b]So much of it was true.[/b]
[b] [/b](worth the full read of it)
Whatever was true four, five, or six years ago, in 2022 Trumpism cannot be regarded as some anomalous strain in U.S. politics. What began as deviation has become mainstream. What once could be minimized as a recessive tendency within the Republican Party has become the dominant one.
Facing that reality is the way to prevent it from doing worse harm. Only recognition of that unwelcome new reality can change behaviors across American politicsnot just those of Trump supporters, but also those of Trump opponents.
Biden won a great many votes in 2020 from people who did not especially support the Democratic agenda but hoped that a Biden presidency would restore politics as normal in the United States. They hoped that the defeat of Trump would jolt his party back toward accepting the rules of the democratic game. (I know because I was one of those who hoped so. I did not fully believe so, but I fiercely hoped so.)
Those hopes have been brutally dashed since January 6, 2021. Trumpism is not the repudiated past of the Republican Party. Its the partys near-term future. If Republicans gain control of one or both houses of Congress in 2022, and in almost any state where they wield power, Trumpism is the [i]country[/i][i]s[/i][i] [/i]near-term future.[/QUOTE]
Frum also on twitter today, comparing Biden’s rhetoric to that of Lincoln heading towards the 1864 election
[link=https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1566034718986059776]https://twitter.com/david…us/1566034718986059776[/link]
American democracy was in grave danger in the summer of 1864. The military situation was grim. Inflation was devouring wages. The draft pressed hard. The Democratic platform offered the rebel South a negotiated peace. Lincoln’s grip on his own party was loosening …
Lincoln recognized – as I trust we all now recognize – that the only way to save the Union was by his own re-election.
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I am sure there were people writing in 1864, “Democracy is in danger. President Lincoln should invoke patriotism, not the patronage politics, to make that point.” Lincoln knew otherwise.
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In the past few days, Biden has acted to relieve student debt. I personally disapprove that measure. At another time, I’d oppose it vociferously. But it sure does seem to have energized a to-date listless youth vote.In Philadelphia, Biden joined issues of direct and intimate concern – abortion, contraception, etc. – to more abstract issues of democracy that some voters might shrug off. That seems likewise to energize voters Biden and his party need.It’s not all pretty, any more than it was pretty in 1864.
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Biden is raising the tone in all kinds of ways. You noticed the “semi-fascist” comment because it was just about the first derogatory thing Biden has said all presidency about Trump and his faction.
But if Biden is to continue raising the tone, he needs to avert election results in 2022 that will empower Trump and his faction. And that means politics: Talking to voters about things they care about – and showing them the connection to the things they *should* care about.The man honored in that great white marble monument at the west end of the Mall understood that all his fine words and high ideals would not matter at all if he were maneuvered out of power. He kept power. His ideals prevailed, his words are remembered. Go and do likewise.
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Ok so its all apples to apples then
Both sides are bad
Problem for you is most people dont see it that way
Most people dont agree with the white nationalist
Or the Q-Anon crowd
Or the forcing 12 yr olds to carry their great uncles baby to term
Or the pardoning of Jan 6 insurrectionists
Cant let the neofascists off the hook
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Deliberately confusing contexts.
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[h1][b]Biden Approval Rating Gets Big Bounce From Young Americans[/b][/h1]
[link=https://www.investors.com/politics/biden-approval-rating-gets-big-bounce-from-young-americans/]IBD/TIPP poll[/link]Biden’s approval rating jumped 6.6 points to 49, the highest since April. The IBD/TIPP presidential job approval measure indicates that 49% of adults who stated an opinion approve of Biden’s job performance and 51% disapprove, in a measure that excludes those who were unsure or declined to state an opinion.
Including the full survey group, 46% of American adults approve how Biden is handling the presidency, and 48% disapprove. That net -2 approval rating improved from August’s -14, with 39% approval and 53% disapproval. It also marks an improvement from July’s -9, with 40% approval and 49% disapproval, as well as June’s -12 with 37% approval and 49% disapproval.
Younger Americans, in particular, rallied around Biden following approval of the climate-focused Inflation Reduction Act and his decision to forgive up to $20,000 in college loans.
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Now they just have to vote
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[link=https://apnews.com/article/inflation-biden-prices-government-and-politics-bf41fe8b0016bf8aaf144e7310c6539f?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_4]AP-NORC poll
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[h1]Biden approval rises sharply ahead of midterms:[/h1]Support for Biden recovered from a low of 36% in July to 45%, driven in large part by a rebound in support from Democrats just two months before the November midterm elections. During a few bleak summer months when gasoline prices peaked and lawmakers appeared deadlocked, the Democrats faced the possibility of blowout losses against Republicans.
The presidents approval rating remains underwater, with 53% of U.S. adults disapproving of him, and the economy continues to be a weakness for Biden. Just 38% approve of his economic leadership as the country faces stubbornly high inflation and Republicans try to make household finances the axis of the upcoming vote.Driving the recent increase in Bidens popularity is renewed support among Democrats, who had shown signs of dejection in the early summer. Now, 78% of Democrats approve of Bidens job performance, up from 65% in July. Sixty-six percent of Democrats approve of Biden on the economy, up from 54% in June.
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Gas prices coming back down too. Just need the fed to unconfuculate themselves and get the markets cooking again
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[link=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-18/biden-says-he-ll-wait-until-after-midterms-to-decide-2024-run?srnd=premium][b]Biden Says Hell Wait Until After Midterms to Decide 2024 Run[/b]
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Look, if I were to say to you, Im running again, all of a sudden, a whole range of things come into play that I have requirements I have to change and move and do,”.
In terms of election laws. And its much too early to make that kind of decision. Im a great respecter of fate.
My intention, as I said to begin with, is that I would run again. But its just an intention. But is it a firm decision that I run again? That remains to be seen. -
[link=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3658333-support-from-women-boosts-biden-to-another-year-high-approval-rating-poll/]https://thehill.com/homen…-approval-rating-poll/[/link]
[h1]Support from women boosts Biden to another year-high approval rating:[/h1]
An [link=https://emersoncollegepolling.com/september-national-poll-president-bidens-approval-at-year-high-56-of-voters-agree-the-pandemic-is-over/]Emerson College poll released Friday[/link] found 45 percent of voters said they approve of Bidens performance, a 3-point increase since last month, while 49 percent disapprove, a two-point decrease.
Bidens increase in approval appears to be driven by women voters. Since July, women voters approval of the President has jumped 10 points, from 39% to 49%, Executive Director of Emerson College Polling Spencer Kimball said.[/QUOTE]
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There is a point where you have start having cousin Jimmie give the welcome speech at the family reunion. It’s getting too much to prepare for uncle Joe. This year he was looking for cousin Jackie when we had just buried her a month ago after that terrible car accident:
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“I want to thank all of you here, including bipartisan elected officials like Senator Braun, Senator Booker, Representative Jackie, Jackie are you here?” Biden said, searching for the late congresswoman. “I think she was going to be here to help make this a reality.”[/I] -
[b]Why Biden Isnt Worried About House GOP Probes[/b][/h1]
Congressional Republicans are talking more openly about their desire to investigate every aspect of the Biden administration and family should they regain control of one or both houses of Congress, [link=https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/03/biden-world-house-gop-investigations-00059888]Politico[/link] reports.
Inside Biden world, aides and allies arent entirely displeased with the chatter.
There is a growing confidence in the White House that the House Republicans clamoring for a hodgepodge of investigations will overreach and that their attempts will backfire politically, with key voters recoiling at blatant partisan rancor. Officials believe they can use GOP efforts to their political advantage heading into the 2024 cycle, betting a pro-Trump Republican conference fixated on Biden will elevate ultra-MAGA Republicans and provide a useful foil for Biden, allowing him to draw sharp contrasts between his governing and their obfuscating.-
They need to change the choreography of these events. The ‘vigorous Joe Biden walks up to the microphone with spring in his step’ routine only works if he doesn’t wander off aimlessly after he is done. Just make sure you have someone up on the stage with him to guide him. Doesn’t matter who, could be the easter bunny. Just someone with him so he doesn’t get lost.
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He was brought up in the puerto rican community. Who knew ?
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Haha. New slogan.
Vote for the feeble minded. Its important
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[link=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-tells-al-sharpton-will-run-president-2024-rcna50556]https://www.nbcnews.com/p…esident-2024-rcna50556[/link]
[b]At Press Event, Biden tell Al Sharpton he’s running in 2024.
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President Joe Biden told the Rev. Al Sharpton that he will seek a second term in a private conversation at the [link=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/]White House[/link] last month, Sharpton informed his National Action Network staff in Washington later that day.
Im going to do it again, Biden said as he posed for a photograph in the Roosevelt Room with Sharpton, who is also an MSNBC host, according to an official of Sharptons National Action Network who recounted Sharptons description. Im going.
While Biden allies have said he will seek re-election, he has shied away from declaring it unequivocally, at least in part to avoid triggering campaign finance reporting laws. His remarks to Sharpton at the tail end of [link=https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/09/02/readout-of-president-bidens-meeting-with-leaders-from-legacy-black-civil-rights-organizations-2/]a meeting[/link] with the leaders of several of the country’s most prominent civil rights organizations represent a stronger assertion that he will be on the ballot again.[/QUOTE]
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“I say this as a father of a man and won the Bronze Star, the conspicuous service medal, and lost his life in Iraq,”
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Many many people are saying
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Pretty sad he doesnt know how his son died.
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Quote from mrctus
Pretty sad he doesnt know how his son died.
Oh he does. It’s just that he can’t discern between campaign lies he has told in the past and reality. He claimed once that his son’s disease was due to exposure to burn pits. Because apparently in the Delaware national guard, a major with the JAG office routinely has to tend the burn pits at night …
It’s a form of confabulation.
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It is extremely unlikely that his sons glioblastoma was a result of exposure during his military service.
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You obviously havent been receiving the 100 daily Camp Lejune emails
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Ohhhh I get them
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Quote from Chirorad84
You obviously havent been receiving the 100 daily Camp Lejune emails
I was wondering why the ‘VA’ was suddenly so interested in heaping money on me. I drove past Camp Lejeune once and I know a few folks who were based there. Maybe that’s enough.
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[link=https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1591581860198420480]https://twitter.com/thehi…us/1591581860198420480[/link]
President Biden: “My intention is that I run again, but I’m a great respecter of fate. This is ultimately a family decision. I think everybody wants me to run, but we’re gonna have discussions about it. I don’t feel any any hurry one way or another to make that judgment.”
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Yay! Hes made his place & with Trump seemingly dead, his reason to run is largely gone.
Now, who steps up that will get elected?-
Do you want him to run? Is he the best choice for the Dems?
I’m a bit disappointed that he deviated some from his original promise (BTW, so is my friend who’s last name is Pel***) but I don’t think we are that much worse off than we would have been with someone who was actually the moderate they promised to be.
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Will Bunch –
[h3][link=https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/president-biden-midterms-2024-candidate-20221113.html]A Biden coalition is (barely) saving democracy. POTUS 46 .must Run Again in ’24[/link][/h3]
[b]He’ll be 81 in 2024, but President Biden is the glue holding together America’s fragile pro-democracy coalition. He needs to run in 2024.[/b]This was the birthdate of what we needed to start calling [link=https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/2022-midterms-young-voters-abortion-20221109.html]the Biden coalition[/link]. They are the less-noisy majority of Americans who believe in counting the votes, in decency, in expanding civil rights instead of curtailing them, and corny as it sounds to some of the Beltway pundits in democracy. From [link=https://twitter.com/Victorshi2020/status/1590054202008817664]college campus[/link] to leaf-blown suburbs, from predominantly Black city neighborhoods to Indigenous reservations, these voters proved just enough to [link=https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/biden-trump-2020-election-philadelphia-voting-results-celebration-20201108.html]rescue America [/link]from a disastrous Trump second term in 2020 and they did it again in Tuesdays midterms.
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The Biden coalition is a majority but a fragile one. In 2020, a shift of about 60,000 votes in three states might have reelected Trump. In 2022, the electorates blue tide may not have been enough to [link=https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/the-gops-bid-to-claim-a-rigged-house-majority/]overcome GOP gerrymandering[/link] in states like Florida or Ohio, or a [link=https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/10/democrats-hochul-new-york-party-chair-00066377]weak Democratic showing[/link] in the key state of New York, to prevent Kevin McCarthy from becoming the next House speaker.
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As a second-term Biden grows older, he would always have the option of stepping down and passing the torch to his handpicked successor in Vice President Kamala Harris ensuring that the 47th president will also be a supporter of democracy, and cementing his legacy by transitioning to our first woman president. In contrast, leaving the White House by not running in 2024 makes it more likely his successor would be DeSantis or Trump, who would undo his accomplishments.
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Biden? A majority of voters is holding democracy together. They will pick the candidate who does not threaten it.
Seriously, we are going to give this result to Biden?
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The ONLY accurate thing about Newts opinion is underestimating Biden & the Democrats by focusing on Bidens personal quirks instead of reality. The list of his grievance politics complaints are just a rehash of Republican right-wing misinformation & propaganda talking points. He & Republicans should continue to be stuck in their ruts.
The economy is good & getting better; crime? funny how its suddenly disappeared from Fox News & right-wing media since the election; border crisis? Republicans did not solve the problem when they could, they could not even build the wall!; Jan 6 just some excited tourists shows their sympathy with anti-democracy & fascism.
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Yeah. Particularly tone deaf is Newt’s assertion that Jan 6, Donald Trump, and abortion rights are all only issues because of a Democratic-led messaging effort.
That’s a huge fail and, if the thinking is adopted by Republicans more broadly would likely to lead to another round of electoral losses.
Trump and Jan 6 (proxies for protecting American democracy) and abortion rights are highly motivating issue for the grass roots and also bring out the middle.-
Yes, I forgot to mention womens rights as unimportant in the Republican talking points view of things. Even after getting slapped down on the subject they cant admit it is important to women & Democrats.
Keep up the good work, Republicans. Lets have some more referendums in Red states to prove their case.
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No doubt Newt is horribly wrong. Hes firmly entrenched in the loser side of the party.
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But its not Biden he is wrong about. Its the policies.
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[b]Bidens Toasted a 2024 Campaign With Macron[/b][/h1]
Jill Biden, the first lady, told President Emmanuel Macron of France at the White House state dinner last week that she and her husband are ready for his re-election campaign, according to two people with knowledge of the discussion. President Biden then joined the French president and the first lady in a playful toast, the [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/06/us/politics/biden-running-president-2024.html]New York Times[/link] reports.
It was a lighthearted moment and Mr. Biden still intends to make a formal decision about whether he will run again after the holiday season but the fact that the Bidens were willing to signal to an important foreign ally about the presidents plans hints at how committed they are to a second term.
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[b]Biden Moving Quickly on Re-Election Bid[/b][/h1]
[link=https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/09/biden-2024-democrats-00073207]Politico[/link]: Biden aides have been working with outside advisers to help sketch out components of a reelection ramp up, including Obama alum Jim Messina, with whom the president has discussed polling in recent weeks.
They are also reengaging donors and zeroing in on key staff roles and hires to fortify a unit that could operate outside the close-knit group that runs operations at the White House. Theyre further along on finalizing a headquarters for the campaign, too, with Wilmington, Del., the likely destination, although Philadelphia has not been ruled out. -
[b]Jill Biden Now All In for Re-Election Bid[/b][/h1]
First lady Jill Biden, despite being so worn out from a recent circuit of White House events that she lost her voice, is now seriously looking ahead to her husband running for reelection in 2024, [link=https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/15/politics/jill-biden-2024-campaign/index.html]CNN[/link] reports.
Thats a tidal shift from her position just three months ago.
