Poll: 20% of Democrats Believe Joe Biden Has ‘Some Form’ of Dementia
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One-fifth of Democrat voters believe that Joe Biden (D), the Democrat Party’s presumptive nominee, is suffering from “some form” of dementia, and a majority of likely voters say it is important for him to address the issue publicly, a Rasmussen Reports poll released Monday revealed.
The survey, conducted June 25-28 among 1,000 likely voters, asked respondents, “From what you have seen and read, do you believe Joe Biden is suffering from some form of dementia?”
The survey found that 38 percent of voters, overall, believe he has dementia, while 20 percent within his own party say the same. According to Rasmussen, “that compares to 66% of Republicans and 30% of voters not affiliated with either major party.”
The survey also asked respondents, “How important is it for Biden to address the dementia issue publicly – very important, somewhat important, not very important or not at all important.”
A majority, 61 percent, of all voters believe it is “important” for the former vice president to address the issue publicly, “with 41% who say it is Very Important.”
Slightly over one-third of overall voters, 36 percent, do not believe it is an important issue to publicly address, although “fifty-one percent (51%) of both Democrats and unaffiliated voters agree that it is important for Biden to address the dementia issue publicly.”
Rasmussen emphasized that it did not specifically define the word “dementia” in its survey, providing the Merriam-Webster dictionary in the summary of the findings.
“According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, dementia is ‘a usually progressive condition (such as Alzheimer’s disease) marked by the development of multiple cognitive deficits (such as memory impairment, aphasia and the inability to plan and initiate complex behavior),’” it clarified.
The survey’s margin of error is +/- three percentage points
The survey coincides with a Restoration PAC poll released last week, which found that only 50 percent of voters in both Michigan and Wisconsin — crucial battleground states — view Biden as “up the task mentally and physically to handle the duties of president of the United States.”
We're not buying Joe Biden's 'tough on China' Act
Joe
Biden is running away from his record as the "pro-China" candidate so
quickly that his defenders in the liberal press can't make heads or tails of
it. Ordinary Americans are equally confused.
Biden
spent over three decades opening American markets to Chinese goods, ignoring
China's abhorrent human rights record, and dismissing the challenge posed by
our greatest rival for global leadership. The "made in
China" era coincided with the closure of tens of thousands of American
factories, stagnant working-class wages, and the loss of America's ability to
produce essential goods domestically — a vulnerability that took on incredible
significance when we learned that we were dependent upon China to produce the
medical equipment needed to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
This
disaster was facilitated by politicians of both parties, and no one was more gung ho than Joe
Biden, poster child for the globalism that reigned supreme until the
2016 presidential election, which Donald J. Trump won by campaigning on a
platform diametrically opposed to the "open markets and open borders"
philosophy of the D.C. establishment. In the White House, President
Trump became the first American leader in decades to take a firm stand against
China's malfeasance and demand a genuinely fair and reciprocal trade deal for
American workers.
While
Joe Biden was the vice president of the United States, conversely, he was downplaying the consequences of
China's rise — even as his own family tried to get rich through
deals with Chinese state-owned companies.
How
is it possible, then, that Biden has suddenly tried to recast himself as the
"tough-on-China" candidate in the 2020 race?
Biden's
campaign even ran an ad claiming the
president had "rolled over for the Chinese" in response to the
coronavirus that Beijing unleashed on the world. It's one of the
most poorly executed flip-flops in American electoral history, coming just
months after Biden called President
Trump's life-saving ban on most travel
from China "hysterical xenophobia."
No
one is buying it. Everyone knows about President Trump's record of
success in bringing China to the negotiating table through strategic
counter-tariffs. The "Phase One" trade deal that was inked
earlier this year represents the first major trade concessions from China in a
generation. Even the fanatical free-traders who actually liked Biden's
globalism see right through his new façade. The libertarians at the
Cato Institute, for instance, published an article
acknowledging that Biden's reversal is "futile" and "inherently
lacks credibility."
Even
the intellectual left is aghast at Biden's fake toughness on
China. The Atlantic called it "utterly
futile" and "pointless — even dangerous." The New
York Times published an op-ed all but begging Biden to drop the
act.
If
even his own supporters are rolling their eyes at Biden play-acting as a China
skeptic, why are he and his team even bothering to attempt the deception?
The
answer is simple. Americans have finally woken up to the economic
and national security threat posed by China. The coronavirus pandemic made that
threat impossible to ignore. No one wants to go into this November
as the "pro-Beijing" candidate.
Unfortunately
for Joe Biden, he's been the "pro-Beijing" candidate throughout his
political career, and there's a decades-long record to prove it.
Ken Blackwell served as mayor of
Cincinnati, Ohio treasurer, and a U.S. ambassador to the U.N. He
currently serves on the board of directors for Club For Growth.
Image:
Marc Nozell via Flickr.
Joe
Biden’s Campaign Is Awash in Wall Street Cash
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Joe
Biden’s Campaign Is Awash in Wall Street Cash
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Joe
Biden has adopted the anti-Wall Street rhetoric of some of his former rivals
for the Democrat nomination, but that has not stopped him from collecting an
enormous war chest of campaign cash from the financial sector.
Biden on Tuesday said that America
“wasn’t built by Wall Street bankers and CEOs, it was built by the great
American middle class.”
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Biden: “The
president held up the Bible at St. John’s church yesterday. I just wish he
opened it once in a while.”
Biden: “If it
weren’t clear before, it’s clear now: This country wasn’t built by Wall Street
bankers and CEOs, it was built by the great American middle class.”
Securities industry employees, a
close proxy for Wall Street, have donated $29,703,244 to Biden’s campaign
or to political committees supporting his campaign for the
presidency, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
The sector is the second-largest source of campaign contributions to Biden’s
campaign, coming only after Democrat Party and left-wing organizations.
Donald Trump, by contrast, has only
received around $6,320,861.
Biden
has also received far more campaign cash from employees of J.P.Morgan Chase, Bank of
America, Morgan
Stanley, and Goldman Sachs than his Republican rival,
according to the Center for Responsive Politics. For example, Biden has taken
more than 6 times as much money from J.P. Morgan Chase employees than Trump.
Employees at those four firms have
donated a total of $508,259 to Biden’s campaign, according to data from the
Center for Responsive Politics. Morgan Stanley was the biggest contributor to
Biden of the group, with donations totaling $171,274.
Trump has received just $27,981
dollars from Morgan Stanley employees. J.P. Morgan employees have contributed
$23,942. Bank of America employees given $40,448. Goldman’s contributions add
up to a grand total of $4,211, according to data from the Center for Responsive
Politics. A total of $96,582, less than one-fifth of Biden’s take.
Political contributions from
Citigroup were unavailable at the time of publication.
The campaign cash from the big Wall
Street banks have poured into Democrat coffers in the 2020 election cycle.
Slightly more than 58 percent of Goldman’s contributions to Congressional
candidates have gone to Democrats. More than 62 percent of Morgan Stanley’s
contributions went to Democrats. Bank of America was nearly even, with 49.9
percent going to Republicans and 49.6 percent going to Republicans. J.P. Morgan
favored Democrats by nearly 60 percent to 30 percent, with 10 percent going to independent
candidates.
This is not a function of just
giving to the majority party. Goldman’s contributions favor Democrats in the
House and Republicans in the Senate, while Morgan Stanley’s and J.P. Morgan’s
favor Democrats in both. Bank of America contributors favor Republican
candidates for the House and Democrats in the Senate.
When measured by contributions to
all federal candidates, all four skew Democrat. J.P. Morgan’s contributions are
the most tilted, with 73.4 percent going to Democrat candidates, and Bank of
America’s the least, with 58.5 percent going to Democrats. Morgan Stanley tilts
67.9 percent Democrat. Goldman lean is 61.28 Democrat.
This is a further shift leftward by
Wall Street from the last election cycle, when between 50 percent and 52 percent
of the contributions through mid-year 2017 from J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley,
and Bank of America went to Republicans. Those banks sent between 37 percent
and 45 percent of the contributions to Democrats.
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