With President Biden due to deliver a major address at Valley Forge on the anniversary of the Trump-inspired Domestic Terrorist Attack at the Nation’s Capitol on January 6, 2021, his reelection campaign team has released an ad called “Cause” in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
The ad starts with the President saying:
“I’ve made the preservation of American Democracy the central issue of my Presidency.”
The ad further quotes the President and Vice Presidents’ commitment to free and fair elections, unhindered by MAGA Republican suppression tactics.
The President then pivots and discusses that “there is something dangerous happening in America.” With pictures of white nationalist events, MAGA Trump rallies, and the January 6, 2021, Domestic Insurrectionist Attack on the Nation’s Capitol in the background, the President goes on to say:
“There’s an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our Democracy.”
Mr. Biden then calls the citizens of the country to action, asking:
“What will we do to maintain our Democracy? History is watching. The world is watching. Most importantly, our children and grandchildren will hold us responsible…I ask every American to join me in this cause.”
The President, in a Humphrey-Reagan-Clinton-Obama opportunistic approach, concludes the ad by stating:
“America is still a place of possibilities where the power resides with we the people. That’s our soul. We are the United States of America. There is nothing beyond our capacity when we act together.”
Commenting on the ad in a press release, Biden/Harris Campaign Manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez wrote:
“Led by Donald Trump, MAGA Republicans are running on an extreme platform of undermining the will of the American people who vote in free and fair elections, weaponizing the government against their political opponents, and parroting the rhetoric of dictators in service of forcing their extreme, unpopular agenda. Over the last three years, MAGA Republicans haven’t shied away from the Big Lie – they’ve doubled down. This ad serves as a very real reminder that this election could very well determine the very fate of American democracy.”
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I supported Biden in 2020, but I don’t think he’s up to another 4 years. His poll numbers show how he is ineffective in moving people to change and is not even given credit for a good economy. He’s losing minority and young voters, key constituencies he will need a large turnout to win against an energized Republican and other conservative base that will likely win the Senate and could hold the House.
I believe Biden is running for ego reasons, thinking he is the only one who could take on Trump, who he’s trailing in key battleground states. If it’s not Trump, Biden loses by a larger margin.
I’m supporting Dean Phillips to send a statement to Biden to get out of the race before it’s too late for an alternative. My suggestion is someone like Sen. Mark Warner, a moderate who was governor of Virginia and a successful businessman.
The fact that Democrats have to disenfranchise New Hampshire voters who historically had the first in the nation primary to help Biden get an early win in South Carolina is a sad fact Biden is not popular. In addition, he will lose Arizona because of being in effective in coming up with a way to stem the flow of migrants.
Give it up Joe. You did a good job in your first term, but your time has passed. Fifty years in D.C. is too long.
Brent Fine
Chandler
What is your rationale for rewarding someone for doing a good job by telling him to leave? Explain.
Reason number one – RBG x 1,000,000.
Diane Feinstein is another. She had no business being in the Senate for the last dozen years. Longer than that if you care at all about our reps enriching themselves while in office.
One of way too many old Dems who don’t understand the world in 2023 and do not inspire younger voters.
Anointing HRC was a colossal mistake, not because of her age, but (mandatory “Bernie would have won”) her friendship with thankfully no longer walking the earth Kissinger and her Wall Street ties.
The good Senator Clinton from Arkansas, sorry, I mean Wall Street, oops, I mean NY.
See Sinema, who like HRC, some of us tried to warn against, and were treated fairly rudely for not marching in line, and how has that worked out?
Closer to home, how the F’ did Tom Horne get elected?
I think Dem leadership gets too deep into the weeds in the empty lot next door while ignoring the crabgrass in our own yard.
I’ll be voting for Biden, in spite of his support of fossil fuel pipelines, etc., but it’s not just his age, Dems seem to miss the point over and over again.
Did I mention RBG? Oh, I did? Maybe I’m just getting old…
Tom Horne got elected because Republicans are better at disciplining and training their voters to vote straight tickets all the way down the ballot than we are. That’s it. Nothing more.
Didn’t the local media have a mea culpa since they failed in to publicize his horrible record when he previously ran the Department of Education?
This has nothing to do with “rewarding” Biden with a vote for a second term. He has to earn that vote and currently his low poll numbers show that the country doesn’t have confidence in his ability to lead another four years (really 5 if you count 2024).
The fact that New Hampshire is being denied its First in the Nation primary because of a phony reason that the state isn’t diversified enough shows how weak Biden is even among Democrats. S. Carolina is only important in the primary, but it won’t factor in the Election Day count because he will lose by a significant amount. However, you might tick off enough Democrats and Independents in N.H. to lose a state Biden will need.
It really comes down to communication and leadership skills. As a candidate you need to be able to get out your voters, inspire them to vote for you, not necessarily vote against someone else (even as bad Trump is). Low turnout will doom Biden’s chances. With a high turnout, despite winning the popular vote by 7 million, he barely won 3 states (Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin) he will need to win the Electoral College.
Biden’s speaking style doesn’t inspire confidence and obviously is not swaying voters. The economy is in great shape, but it’s not translating to the voters. He needs to explain how much things have improved and compare inflation today to how it was in the early 1980s with high unemployment. He needs to sit with groups of voters who are undecided and listen to their concerns. It’s a lot of work I’m not sure he is willing or capable of doing.
Let’s compare Biden re-election to Reagan’s in 1984. Reagan was 73 and there were rumors of him falling asleep in meetings and not “Being There” all the time. The economy was just coming out of a recession, but unemployment was much higher than it is now. However, Reagan still could make great speeches and sway voters’ minds. And he also had a great communications team that staged his events well. His popularity was never in the ’30s. Biden will be 82 in 2024 and does not give inspiring speeches and rarely holds news conferences and even then they are very short.
Sorry for being long-winded. But the bottom line is Biden has been in D.C. too long (50+ years) and it shows. He’s a creature of that town. If he wants to win he needs to get out of there and take the time to go to rural and urban areas and sit with voters and interest in their problems. Not try to make a canned speech that seems to sound the same all the time. And he needs to visit the border to show he really wants to fix the problem. The other day he said he understood why people are coming, but didn’t says how to really tackle the problem. More border patrols and fencing won’t do it. Policy must change. We could be letter terrorists into the country when you have 300,000 people coming in a month and being released into the country until their hearing, which may not be for 3 years.
Only a foolish party would give up the power of incumbency in running for President. We are not fools, so nice try Brent, but we won’t be duped into shooting ourselves in the face.
We need more of this kind of talk from Democrats! It’s sometimes discouraging that more Democrats in Congress/Senate don’t “talk up” President Biden and ALL the GOOD he has done – and the dignity he brings back to the Presidency.
I don’t think we need more such talk from Democrats, because anyone who suggests an incumbent President NOT run for re-election does not have the interests of the Democratic Party in mind. Republicans are DESPERATE for us to make such an unforced error, because Trump is the weakest possible candidate for them and they know it. Biden will trounce Trump in a rematch. Period. To believe that Biden is at a disadvantage is utter fantasy and putting WAY too much faith in bad polling.