The amount of financial aid sent to Ukraine from the United States has become a subject of debate among Americans as the total climbs over $113 billion.
Popular political commentator Tucker Carlson, for example, has argued that “every city in the United States has become much worse in the last three years” while simultaneously sending significant aid to foreign nations, including Ukraine.
Despite these legitimate concerns, President Joe Biden will soon ask Congress for another $10 billion to provide Ukraine with an aid package. (Trending: Disney Just Pulled A Bud Light…)
Ukraine has been struggling with a “slow-moving counteroffensive against Russia” as America and other NATO countries scramble to provide support.
Biden’s goal is to replenish American weapon stockpiles which have been depleted.
A poll from the Quincy Institute last week found that a majority of Americans oppose sending more aid to Ukraine.
Kelley Vlahos, a senior adviser at the Quincy Institute, said, “The poll also doesn’t bode well for Biden’s handling of major foreign policy issues. Some 53 percent disapprove of how he is handling the war in Ukraine; 56 percent disapprove of how he is handling Russia; and 57 percent disapprove of how he is handling the relationship with China.”
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California stands in Biden’s way for approval of another aid package.
Seventy House Republicans voted to cut off funding for Ukraine in recent months.
The Grand Canyon is one of the Earth’s nine wonders of the world, Joe Biden said.
The problem: he is wrong. Way wrong.
Joe Biden: What Did He Say Now?
“The Grand Canyon — one of the Earth’s nine wonders, wonders of the world, literally. Think of that. You know, it’s amazing. An enduring symbol of America to the entire world,” Biden said.
Biden made his comment while he was in Arizona to establish a new national monument called Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni or the Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in English on 917,618 acres.
“These special places are not a pass-through on the way to the Grand Canyon. They are sacred and significant unto their own right,” she added. “We are in a new era, one in which we honor tribally led conservation, advance co-stewardship and care about the well-being of Native American people.”
As has become customary with Biden gaffes, people were quick to correct him.
The Real Seven Wonders of the Natural World
There are Seven Wonders of the Natural World. The Grand Canyon is one of seven. The others include the Northern Lights; the Great Barrier Reef; Paricutin in Mexico; Victoria Falls in Africa; Mount Everest; and the Rio de Janeiro harbor.
He later attempted to correct his error.
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“The first time I saw the Grand Canyon, years ago, I was a young senator. As I stood there and looked out, a phrase came to mind, it was instinctive, I said this must be, this is God’s cathedral. That’s what it reminded me of. It just is so magnificent,” the president told those listening to his speech. “As a matter of fact, I said nine, it’s one of the seven wonders of the world.”
Biden Gaffe Minor Compared With Others
This gaffe was minor in comparison with some of his other recent flubs which caused many to wonder about his cognitive abilities.
His comment about Vladimir Putin losing in Iraq in June caused many to question if he was losing his mind.
“It’s hard to tell really. But he’s clearly losing the war in Iraq. He’s losing the war at home and he has become a bit of a pariah around the world. And it’s not just NATO, it’s not just the European Union. It’s Japan, it’s 40 nations,” he said.
Such a flub could be seen as a symptom of his aging and feed the rumors about his incompetence.
“The Democratic Party needs to be responsive to what people are saying about Biden and their concerns that they have with his age,” a congressional Democrat, who remained anonymous, told the outlet, told Fox News. “The number of text messages that I got after the president fell … I mean, my phone was blowing up. People are like, ‘Oh, this is so bad.’”
After a week vacationing in his home state of Delaware, President Joe Biden is going west this week to tout his economic gains to residents of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is part of his campaign's reelection strategy, which seeks to focus on the economy, record-low unemployment, and better-than-expected GDP growth.
However, poll numbers also show persistent voter skepticism about the state of the economy, while the political world remains dominated by other matters – including the indictment of former President Donald Trump for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election. That news has consumed the public consciousness, and in the process drawn the spotlight away from the White House's efforts to promote "Bidenomics."
However, this visit will be an attempt to shift that focus.
"You can expect us to highlight more groundbreakings of projects, more ribbon-cuttings, and opportunities to show the American people how these investments and jobs are reaching their communities and their neighborhoods," Natalie Quillian, White House deputy chief of staff, told The Washington Post while previewing Biden's stops this week in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. "This is a critical element of our strategy."
Americans Just Don't See It
At issue today is that Americans on Main Street may not be feeling any of the economic gains seen on Wall Street – mainly as last year's inflation ate into savings for many.
In fact, even some who voted for Biden in 2020 have said they believe the economy has fared poorly under his stewardship and they might not vote for him in the 2024 election, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released last week.
About half of the respondents who voted for Biden in 2020 said they have heard little or nothing of his major policy initiatives to reduce inflation or boost spending on infrastructure.
Democratic strategist Jennifer Holdsworth told Reuters that this week's trip could serve to counter a message spread by the nation's right-wing media that have distorted the economy and Biden's legislative agenda.
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"As President Biden gets out there on the campaign trail, I think you'll see that trend start to change," she said.
The Battle over Bidenomics? Joe Biden Should Worry
Even as Joe Biden hypes Bidenomics, Republicans have also been working aggressively to take back the term, dubbing it as synonymous with tax hikes and inflation.
Democrats acknowledge that slapping Biden's name on the economy is a gamble, given the prospect of it moving in the wrong direction, Politico.com reported.
The question is whether Americans will agree. Right now, that looks suspect.
In fact, it seems many Americans will conclude Bidenomics looks like an election-style scam marketing campaign and that Joe Biden looks like a fool for putting it out in the public arena.
It appears that CNN isn’t able to defend Joe Biden any longer.
With over 20 years in the industry, veteran political commentator Scott Jennings had extensive involvement in four presidential efforts and he’s a regular contributor on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and an Adjunct Lecturer at Harvard. Jennings appeared on CNN to reflect on Biden’s time in the White House, and his commentary appeared to stun everyone.
“I never imagined how quickly this would all unfold,” Jennings began. “The person they sold on the campaign. The nice old moderate Grandpa who just wanted to help everybody get along and compromise is not what we got over the past year.” (Trending: North Face Has A Bud Light Moment And It’s Ugly)
“He has no mandate, really, to do much of anything,” he continued. “It’s amazing that he got a couple of things done when the mandate was pretty clear: 50/50 Senate and near 50/50 House, and a pretty close presidential election.”
“The mandate was simply ‘replace Donald Trump and don’t do anything drastic or stupid,” Jennings said. “And yet everything about this agenda is extremely drastic. And he’s been angrier than I think people expected, he’s been more divisive, he’s been more partisan.”
“You look at the issues. We built five years of coverage on Trump out of Russia, COVID, and democracy,” Jennings added. “The president, in his press conference, invites Russia to invade the Ukraine. We have more [COVID] deaths under Biden than Trump. And now we have the president and the vice president question the legitimacy of the 2022 election? Are we any better off on these issues that we crucified Trump over?”
“I think he has a lot of political problems,” he said. “And an AP poll came out this morning, only 28 percent of Americans want the sitting president to run for re-election. And fewer than half of Democrats. This is a disaster,” Jennings concluded.
A Quinnipiac poll showed Biden’s approval crashing to 33 percent. This is worst than the lowest rating ever received by President Donald Trump, according to Gallup.
Joe Biden's Bidenomics is a Lie - It’s a fairly understood concept among voters that politicians lie.
Further, it’s a sadly accepted notion that, when Democratic Party politicians lie, the media, academia, and much of elite society not only spread the lies but protect the Democrats from being dinged by fact-checkers and Republicans alike.
As the already contentious 2024 Presidential Election gets underway, with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris running as the presumptive nominees of the Democratic Party, Biden, and his fellow Democrats are going to have to do everything they can to stay competitive with voters.
Because, as it stands, Joe Biden and his running-mate, Kamala Harris, are the two least popular politicians to run for reelection in decades.
Bidenomics vs. Reaganomics
A key plank in Joe Biden’s burgeoning reelection campaign has been his blandly titled “Bidenomics” policies.
If Republican President Ronald Reagan’s visionary economic program was defined by tax cuts for the upper wage earners and massive deregulation of industry to spur wider economic growth that benefited all Americans, then President Biden’s economic policies involve a far greater degree of state interference with and influence over the economy.
In essence, Bidenomics is the so-called “answer” to the Libertarian economic preferences that have dominated America’s political and economic systems since the 1980s.
Biden’s economic policies represent a return to the halcyon days of “Progressive” presidents, such as Franklin D. Roosevelt or Lyndon B. Johnson, with their massive tax-and-spend policies that were designed to ameliorate economic woes (but often, as economist Burton Folsom, Jr., showed in his works, exacerbated the economic woes of most Americans).
Thus, Bidenomics is the Democratic Party’s great economic revenge upon their Republican foes after decades of Reaganomics being the defining feature of economic policy.
Unlike Reaganomics, however, Bidenomics has been slow to take off and live up to its promise (or its massive cost). The Biden Campaign, desperate to tout the forty-sixth president’s turgid record as anything other than the turd it is, has glammed onto a recent data point showing that wage growth has outstripped inflation in the United States.
New polling suggests that Democrats are in for a world of hurt in 2024. As the adage goes, “it’s the economy stupid!” — and Americans’ economic outlook is bleak indeed. The administration and their media allies have waged a concerted propaganda effort to sell “Bidenomics” as something it’s not, but it turns out the American people are not as stupid as Democrats think.
A CBS News report poll released over the weekend feigned shock that “macro stats for the U.S. economy” provided “cold comfort” for many Americans. Despite GDP growth and stock gains, the average American family does not perceive much improvement to their bottom line. The most common words used to describe the economy were “uncertain” (56 percent) and “struggling” (61 percent). In contrast, only 11 percent believed the economy was “expanding.”
These findings are unsurprising, and track with Americans’ economic outlook since politicians shut down the U.S. economy during Covid. What’s more surprising — and likely more <snip>ing for Democrats — is how Americans perceive the politics of it all. Eighty percent of Americans believe Biden’s policies are “somewhat” or a “great deal” responsible for the current state of the economy. Over half of Americans have heard little to nothing about “Bidenomics,” but for those who had, roughly half said “higher inflation” and “tax increases” come to mind.
It is somewhat surprising that a majority of Americans have not heard of Bidenomics, given the push to make the nebulous economic program a campaign centerpiece. In politics, there are three types of lies — “lies, <snip>ed lies, and statistics.” The campaign believes it can distort economic reality to claim a victory for Bidenomics that doesn’t in reality exist.
Biden has routinely defined his eponymous economic plan as “rooted in the recognition that the best way to grow the economy is from the middle out and the bottom up.” If this sounds like mush-mouthed nonsense, that’s because it is. The “three key pillars” of Bidenomics — “smart public investments,” “empowering and educating workers,” and “promoting competition” — are so vague that they allow Biden to take credit for virtually anything that goes right in the American economy, no matter what the cause.
For example, Vice President Kamala Harris recently took a victory lap on behalf of Bidenomics for the “new jobs created.” But this is a prime example of lying with statistics — and one certainly doesn’t need an economics degree to see why.
Harris’ graphic compares the 13 million jobs “created” under Biden to the five million under former President Donald Trump. But, according to Trading Economics, the current employment rate is still slightly lower than it was in February 2020. Biden’s gains are merely replacing the jobs temporarily lost during Covid. In fact, the rebound occurred at a much slower rate under Biden than it did under Trump.
This is likely because another plank of Bidenomics is pumping billions into green energy boondoggles and calling it infrastructure. In total, the Inflation Reduction Act — Biden’s signature piece of legislation — devoted a whopping $369 billion to “climate investments.” That comes on top of the earlier $1.2 trillion infrastructure law which also funneled billions into left-wing causes like “climate resiliency.”
Democrats claim a victory for Bidenomics here as well, arguing counter-intuitively that greater government spending would actually bring down inflation. Now, even liberal economist Larry Summers is warning that Bidenomics is becoming “increasingly dangerous” and will make inflation worse. Yet Democrats still claim a preemptive victory over inflation.
The problem with the administration’s inflation claims however, is that they fail to account for the year-on-year changes. Sure, the inflation rate came “down” to 4.6 percent in July 2023. But that means it is still over four percent up from the 8.5 percent inflation of July 2022.
Biden seems to think his best hope for re-election is campaigning on his economic agenda. The campaign hopes to turn voters’ (realistic) perception around by shifting the focus to Trump. In a statement released to Politico, Biden actually hit Trump over his record on jobs and the economy. This signals that Biden world is going to attempt to win back the working class voters who haven’t looked back since leaving the Democratic party for Trump in 2016.
If the economic message continues to fail, the Democrats will revert to their usual tactic — scream racism until they are blue in the face. But this is unlikely to be as successful as it was during the 2020 “summer of love.” Any president, or party, that gets blamed for kitchen table issues is unlikely to fare well under a national referendum. Despite the statistical trickery, people feel the pain in their pocketbooks, as the CBS poll shows. Biden will not escape his economic legacy so easily, and any candidate who puts forward a compelling economic vision will be a force to reckon with in 2024.
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What Are Joe Biden's Biggest Failures as President? - In today's great political divide, the accomplishments of the president are typically overshadowed by the biggest failures.
It wasn't always like this – which is why we remember that Franklin Roosevelt led the country to victory in World War II rather than likely dragging out the Great Depression and why we remember that Abraham Lincoln essentially ended slavery in the country even as he failed to find a resolution that could have avoided the American Civil War.
Joe Biden's Mistakes
Thus today, critics of President Joe Biden look past his accomplishments, including efforts to fight climate change and to address America's failing infrastructure.
That is because there are still many issues that haven't been addressed and a number of notable failures as President Biden is now halfway through his third year in office.
Many on the right would even consider his time in the Oval Office a diaster, and have a lot of evidence to back up the claim.
Border Crisis is Worse Than Ever
President Joe Biden has said that the border crisis didn't begin overnight, but his critics noted that it essentially did start the moment he took office.
As of the start of this year, there had been more than 5.5 million illegal border crossings during Biden's tenure and that figure has only likely gotten worse.
The Heritage Foundation suggested, "It's not a stretch to say that Biden has created the worst border crisis in U.S. history." Beyond the "undocumented" persons, huge quantities of illicit drugs have also been flowing into the country.
Inflation Hit Decades High Record Levels
Though inflation has come down from the near-record highs of last summer, there is no denying that everything simply costs more these days – a lot more! It was in June 2022 that inflation peaked at 9.1 percent, the highest since the early 1980s.
Related video: Biden administration has told the world they are not interested in securing the border: Ron Vitiello (Fox Business)
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Biden administration has told the world they are not interested in securing the border: Ron Vitiello
Supporters of President Biden will argue that he did more to address the Covid-19 pandemic than his predecessor, but the White House still failed to stop the emergence of the Delta and Omicron variants, while the administration failed to provide enough testing kits.
The United States' emergency petroleum reserves are meant to be used in a time of true crisis, including a natural disaster or war – where supplies of oil could be cut off. Instead, President Biden commissioned the selling of one million barrels of oil per day for six months as part of an effort to lower gasoline prices due to the aforementioned record inflation.
That was a bad policy that was meant to win support from voters ahead of the midterms – truly an example of playing politics over national security!
It is absolutely true that former President Donald Trump had set a deadline for a withdrawal, and it is entirely questionable whether he could have handled the withdrawal any better. Perhaps both men were wrong.
Yet, Biden was unable to see that there was no reason for a total withdrawal – the U.S. should have maintained a presence and helped guide the country toward being a functional nation.
What Are Joe Biden's Biggest Failures as President? - In today's great political divide, the accomplishments of the president are typically overshadowed by the biggest failures.
It wasn't always like this – which is why we remember that Franklin Roosevelt led the country to victory in World War II rather than likely dragging out the Great Depression and why we remember that Abraham Lincoln essentially ended slavery in the country even as he failed to find a resolution that could have avoided the American Civil War.
Joe Biden's Mistakes
Thus today, critics of President Joe Biden look past his accomplishments, including efforts to fight climate change and to address America's failing infrastructure.
That is because there are still many issues that haven't been addressed and a number of notable failures as President Biden is now halfway through his third year in office.
Many on the right would even consider his time in the Oval Office a diaster, and have a lot of evidence to back up the claim.
Border Crisis is Worse Than Ever
President Joe Biden has said that the border crisis didn't begin overnight, but his critics noted that it essentially did start the moment he took office.
As of the start of this year, there had been more than 5.5 million illegal border crossings during Biden's tenure and that figure has only likely gotten worse.
The Heritage Foundation suggested, "It's not a stretch to say that Biden has created the worst border crisis in U.S. history." Beyond the "undocumented" persons, huge quantities of illicit drugs have also been flowing into the country.
Inflation Hit Decades High Record Levels
Though inflation has come down from the near-record highs of last summer, there is no denying that everything simply costs more these days – a lot more! It was in June 2022 that inflation peaked at 9.1 percent, the highest since the early 1980s.
Related video: Biden administration has told the world they are not interested in securing the border: Ron Vitiello (Fox Business)
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Biden administration has told the world they are not interested in securing the border: Ron Vitiello
Supporters of President Biden will argue that he did more to address the Covid-19 pandemic than his predecessor, but the White House still failed to stop the emergence of the Delta and Omicron variants, while the administration failed to provide enough testing kits.
The United States' emergency petroleum reserves are meant to be used in a time of true crisis, including a natural disaster or war – where supplies of oil could be cut off. Instead, President Biden commissioned the selling of one million barrels of oil per day for six months as part of an effort to lower gasoline prices due to the aforementioned record inflation.
That was a bad policy that was meant to win support from voters ahead of the midterms – truly an example of playing politics over national security!
It is absolutely true that former President Donald Trump had set a deadline for a withdrawal, and it is entirely questionable whether he could have handled the withdrawal any better. Perhaps both men were wrong.
Yet, Biden was unable to see that there was no reason for a total withdrawal – the U.S. should have maintained a presence and helped guide the country toward being a functional nation.
Last week, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) made headlines after he explicitly stated his belief that the Biden Family’s questionable financial practices and their financial ties to Hunter Biden’s allegedly illicit international influence peddling schemes are making impeachment of President Joe Biden increasingly likely.
You see, the Republicans’ fixation on Hunter Biden is not merely about exacting political revenge upon the Democrats for their mistreatment of Donald Trump when he was president.
There are legitimate concerns that, through the First Son’s purported illegal worldwide business deals, not only did the Biden Family benefit but Joe Biden himself financially benefited from these deals.
The Real Reason They're Pursuing Hunter Biden
That is the real reason why the GOP is intensely investigating Hunter Biden.
It isn’t about the salacious images of the First Son engaged in sex acts with escorts.
And those concerns revolve not just around Hunter Biden leveraging his father’s various positions in government to extract high payments from foreign governments and multinational corporations.
That’s bad enough.
The Republican concern is that through Hunter Biden, foreign governments – notably the People’s Republic of China – gained exclusive access to Joe Biden who, in order to earn his keep, may have altered U.S. foreign policy to suit the needs of his Chinese benefactors.
To be clear: the impeachable offense we’re talking about is treason.
While McCarthy’s comments were the most explicit that a high-ranking member of the GOP has made about impeaching President Biden, many on the Right are upset that the unpopular speaker failed to give a timeline.
But a timeline at this point would prove difficult.
First, the Republicans have to find explicit links between Hunter Biden’s businesses and Joe Biden.
Thus far, they’ve found only circumstantial evidence.
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I do believe that if the GOP probes deep and long enough, they will find those financial ties.
The purpose, though, is to prove the real criminal – treasonous – behavior of a sitting president.
That means this is going to take time.
Making accusations is one thing. If the GOP is serious about successfully ousting Biden from office, they need more than innuendo and suspicion.
It's Not Just Political Revenge
Speaking for myself, pursuing Hunter Biden in the hopes of impeaching the sitting president is not about political revenge.
I fear that for many on the Right, it’s simply about getting even with the Democrats for their impeachment mania – based on false premises – of former President Donald Trump.
But, if the accusations about Hunter Biden being a conduit for foreign influence over his father are true, then the GOP needs to have all its political and legal ducks in a row.
This isn’t about Hunter Biden.
This is about protecting the country from a president who may be compromised by foreign intelligence services.
Desperate to bolster his record as election season approaches, Joe Biden is shouting from the rooftops about his handling of the economy. But even with the welcome news that inflation has dropped to 3 per cent and equities rallying, Americans aren’t convinced. His approval rating is at 41 per cent, close to the lowest level of his presidency – and the economy remains the number one issue.
Oblivious and tone deaf to these concerns, as usual, Biden has been trumpeting his economic victories. His critics respond with a litany of policy failures and missed opportunities that have left ordinary working Americans anxious for their finances. The inflation rate was just over 1 per cent when Biden took office; it peaked at 9 per cent last June, the highest level in four decades.
And while inflation has slowed, the price of staple goods is still soaring. Bread shot up nearly 12 per cent, frozen vegetables 17 per cent, baby formula and rents 8 per cent. While Biden brags about his record, families are struggling to feed their children. It’s no wonder Americans think the USA is heading in the wrong direction.
Part of the blame falls on Biden’s heavy-handed regulation, which has piled vast cost onto American businesses. Another might be attributed to mounting Government debt, which has soared past $32 trillion. The threat of increased taxation as the ranks of the IRS swell is creating a lingering sense of dread.
Bidenomics is also about ‘how bad’ Republicans are, says Amy Walter
Biden can claim little credit for what has gone well. His “Inflation Reduction Act” was effectively a borrow and spend package pouring tax credits into so-called “green” technologies. While it’s likely to add $750 billion to the nation’s debt over the next decade, the University of Pennsylvania found that its impact on inflation was “statistically indistinguishable from zero”. The only real result in the near term is that it’s likely to slightly decrease short-term economic growth; at least something was reduced.
Wherever you turn, Biden’s calamitous presidency is turning into an American horror story. Reading and math scores are at their lowest levels in decades. Worker productivity is plummeting while drug overdose deaths reach record highs. Crime has people living their daily lives in fear.
And what’s Biden’s response to this? To tout his achievements. To preen about his record. Like so much else about his shameless presidency, his economic messaging is utterly out of touch with reality. It is almost unbelievable that this shambling mess is viewed as a re-electable candidate.
Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri is calling for the prosecution of former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton following the release of the bombshell “Durham Report.”
The report details the alarming level of politicization and corruption within the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ).
“There needs to be a lot more than reports,” Hawley said. “People need to be prosecuted for this. The Clinton campaign and Hillary Clinton herself.”
The FBI and DOJ relied on the lies fed to them by a Democrat-hired law firm in order to spy on the 2016 Trump campaign, which continued even after Trump was elected president. The FBI did not dispute the findings in the Durham report.
Hawley explained, “Is it any coincidence that she is tweeting about collusion at exactly the same time her campaign operatives are feeding this BS to the FBI? I don’t think so.”
“There needs to be consequences for her and also for the FBI,” he told Fox News. The federal agencies falsely told Americans there was evidence that President Trump’s 2016 campaign coordinated with Russia to influence the election. It was a lie.
“We’ve got to get justice here, and justice needs to be served. You can’t interfere in a presidential election without consequences,” Hawley continued.
“At least you couldn’t, you used to not be able to in America. And that’s what happened here. That’s what this report shows. That one political party, the Democrats, tried to use the FBI to rig a presidential election and just about got away with it. They succeeded in getting the FBI to intervene.”
“They succeeded in getting the FBI to lie to a court to get wiretaps. They succeeded in getting a presidential campaign Donald Trump’s campaign spied on. I mean, it’s amazing. If there’s something like this in American history, I don’t know what it is. And that’s why I say there needs to be prosecutions,” Hawley added.
Senator Wants Probe of Hunter Biden Legal Team: A prominent U.S. Senator wants a probe of Hunter Biden’s legal team after a lawyer of their firm impersonated a staffer with the House Ways and Means Committee in an effort to obtain a court document related to the president’s son’s ongoing tax case.
“I’ve heard from countless Americans who are concerned our justice system is being weaponized against President Biden’s political opponents while his son gets preferential treatment,” Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., told Fox News Digital in a statement. “There needs to be accountability for any misconduct or favoritism, including Hunter Biden’s own legal team. Faith in our justice system has been gravely damaged by the Biden administration’s mishandling of recent cases and restoring its integrity is essential.”
Judge Bars Attorneys From Talking to Court Clerk’s Office
Federal Judge Maryellen Noreika, the judge overseeing the case, issued an order threatening sanctions against Latham & Watkins lawyer Jessica Bengels accusing her of misrepresenting herself in a call with Clerk of Courts office, saying questions should be brought to her attention only.
“The Clerk’s Office for this Court is staffed by many hardworking and dedicated employees,” she wrote. “They are often the public face of this Court and must address many different, and often difficult, issues on any given day. Their jobs are not always easy, but they do these jobs well. They have earned my trust and my respect. I will not tolerate or countenance them being ill-used, disrespected or lied to.”
On the eve of Wednesday’s hearing at which Noreika decided to delay approval Bidens’ plea agreement, House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., had filed an amicus brief with the court seeking to have it thrown out on other grounds. He asked her to consider testimony from IRS whistleblowers who claimed that the Hunter Biden investigation had been tampered with by the Justice Department.
Not only that, but he’s losing to Donald Trump, who a majority in the same Washington Post/ABC News poll say should be criminally charged. This wipes away the sole rationale for his second term.
Biden’s approval rating is at 36%, which is the lowest rating of any first term president since Harry Truman, but Americans didn’t think Truman was out of it. His disapproval is 56%, which includes 47% that strongly disapprove.
Having already defeated Trump in 2020, Biden has been seen as the most surefire way to keep Trump from winning another term. Democrats are particularly petrified at the thought of Vice President Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket.
But I’m guessing more surveys will prove the Post/ABC poll isn’t an outlier but a pivot point. Now Democrats could be forced to push a viable alternative for Biden–possibly California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, or Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
It’s still very difficult to beat an incumbent president. Though, considering coo-coo candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson are polling almost one third of Democratic voters in primary polls, a serious challenger might have an easier time than normal.
What’s almost worse than the approval numbers alone are Biden’s standing among key Democratic constituencies, according to the poll, 26% approval among Americans under age 30, just 42% among non-white adults, 41% among urban residents and 46 percent of those with no religious affiliation. That’s certainly an opportunity for a viable primary challenger.
As for make-or-break in a general election, independents are backing Trump over Biden, 42-34%. These voters backed Trump in 2016 and flipped to Biden in 2020. Still, there are plenty of undecided voters.
There could be an out for Biden. It won’t be easy after he already announced his re-election campaign. But Biden could always cite his health–stressing his physical health if he’s too proud to admit cognitive issues.
The poll found 63% of respondents say he doesn’t have the mental sharpness to serve effectively as president. The number was only 43% when Biden ran for president in 2020. But another 62% said Biden isn’t in good enough physical health to be an effective president.
Also, the House Oversight Committee is investigating the financial deals of the Biden family. The president could assert “I could take the political barbs, but I won’t let those MAGA extremists torment my innocent family members through the awful Republican politics of personal destruction.” Most of the media would back him up.
There might be other clever outs. It would throw the Democrats into a temporary chaos. But big Democrat donors would make their choices in time for the primaries.
Democratic operative-turned ABC News talking head George Stephanopoulos even said, “This poll is just brutal for President Biden.”
Both Trump (44-38%) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (42-37%) beat Biden in a hypothetical general election matchup. This makes DeSantis a loser in the poll as well, since so much of his argument was going to be electability.
The poll says 56% believe Trump ought to be criminally charged for trying to reverse the 2020 presidential election and 54% want him charged in relation to a mob of his supporters rioting in the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But that bodes even worse for Biden. You can’t even beat a guy that a majority wants to see under federal indictment? Well, as it turns out 26% of those who think Trump should be criminally charged would still vote for him over Biden.
That comes down to a bottom line, which is that 54% believe Trump did a better job with the economy than Biden. Duh.
The best pro-Biden spin could be to quibble about the sampling size, or margin of error. But – as the president would say – come on, man.
There just aren’t many places to go from here. Are you going to argue he really has 39% approval instead of 36%? Does Biden really just lose to Trump by 4% instead of 6%? Is it really less than 60% that thinks he’s senile? Did he only lose a few elements of his base? You get the point. The typical polling arguments don’t apply when the numbers are this awful.
Biden’s disastrous polling has finally caught up with his disastrous presidency.
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