JOE BIDEN = LYING PIG LAWYER AND BRIBES SUCKER.
CAN YOU NAME A SINGLE THING JOE BIDEN OR BARACK OBAMA
DID FOR BLACK AMERICA?
WHAT ABOUT ILLEGALS?!?
By rights, Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren should have won primaries whose base tilted sharply leftward. And had white Democrats been the only ones voting, they would have. But black voters dragged Biden through the primaries with bloc voting. Especially in the South. While white college graduate lefties split their votes, black voters maximized their power.
Biden's roll began by winning 61% of black voters in South Carolina, 72% in Alabama, 60% in Texas, 63% in Virginia. The reward for these wins was claimed by Congressional Black Caucus members, especially Rep. Jim Clyburn, and the old black Democrat establishment which pushed back against the Obama era and the new radicals to reclaim its traditional power.
It’s possible that the media will be unable to prop Joe Biden up any longer. With soaring inflation, runaway fuel prices, international humiliations, a deliberately broken border, the obsession with anti-White racism, the transgender indoctrination in schools and other institutions, and the hated, unnecessary, and unconstitutional vaccine mandates, all the feel-good stories in the world about ice cream and the absence of mean tweets will be useless.
Worker Unions Endorsed Biden, Members Got Screwed
Biden lied, American jobs died.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
When Joe Biden ran for office, he told the members of the United Steelworkers that he would keep President Trump's steel tariffs on Europe in place. The tariffs, which protect the jobs of American steelworkers, were one of the few Trump policies that Biden kept after taking office.
Even most government insiders thought the tariffs would stay in place because they created American jobs in key battleground states like Ohio and Pennsylvania. Abandoning them would risk not just the White House, but Democrat House and Senate losses in 2022 and 2024.
United Steelworkers endorsed Biden and he promised them that he would keep the tariffs in place right until he jetted off to Europe in Air Force One, with its presidential suite and gym, and then toured Rome in an 85-vehicle motorcade to discuss the "environmental crisis".
Biden’s foreign policy priorities haven’t been focused on American security or jobs. After turning over Afghanistan to Al Qaeda for September 11, he decided to do to American steel jobs what he had done to Afghanistan by cutting a deal to partially lift President Trump’s steel tariffs.
The Biden administration’s environmentalist and tax hike priorities required making some concessions to the Europeans in exchange for agreeing to a minimum corporate tax of 15% (which Biden believes will make it easier to hike America’s corporate tax rates) and massive reductions in functional energy like coal and oil in exchange for non-functional green energy.
The steelworkers of Ohio and Pennsylvania, already on the hit list of Biden’s Big Green donors, were the sacrifice that “Middle Class Joe” made so his San Francisco donors can get even richer trading in carbon credits while salivating at the prospect of turning the entire American economy into a corrupt scheme for taxing and trading the imaginary “carbon” commodity.
To save the planet. Before flying off to their seaside coastal mansions.
United Steelworkers is now stuck trying to sell the latest Biden betrayal to its members as a very good thing by repeating the White House talking points of an alliance with Europe against Chinese steel. That promise, like the tariff promise, will turn out to be just as much of a sham.
Steelworkers could have taken a cue from the miners who have been lied to by Democrats.
The United Mine Workers of America had actually endorsed John Kerry, who went on to wage an environmentalist war on coal, because he had promised to protect coal jobs.
Kerry, now Biden's Climate Czar, tried to recently gaslight coal miners by falsely claiming that, "Workers have been fed a false narrative, no surprise, over the last few years they’ve been fed the notion that somehow dealing with climate is coming at their expense, no it’s not."
Then he suggested that coal miners get jobs installing solar panels.
“Secretary Kerry trying to equate the job of an electrician in a coal mine who makes $110,000 to a solar tech, who might make $35,000 to $40,000, is not a good analogy for our state," Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia pointed out.
Kerry’s current priority is trying to convince the Biden administration to surrender everything to China in exchange for asking the Commies to use less coal. Which they’re buying from us.
China is now the second largest market for American coal. Biden and Kerry are bribing the Chinese to stop buying our coal. Has any other government hated its own country this much?
The United Mine Workers of America didn’t even bother with a presidential endorsement. After Hillary Clinton announced that she would kill coal miner jobs, the UMWA threw in the towel. In the last election, most UMWA members voted Trump. The same was true of the steelworkers.
Biden not only lied to the steelworkers, and waged war on coal miners, he lied and betrayed those American miners who were hoping that there would be some future for mining jobs.
During the campaign, miners were "privately" told by the Biden campaign that his administration would encourage domestic mining of rare earth metals.
The Biden pitch was that his environmental strategy would require lots of rare earth metals for solar panels and electric cars, and that would actually boost rare earth mining in America.
It was a familiar twist on the scam that was sold to the steelworkers.
Big Green lobbies have repeatedly sold the same lie that "investing" in their energy scams would create jobs. The only place it ever creates jobs is in China and among the venture capitalists of San Francisco. Not to mention the EPA bureaucrats tasked with dragging out environmental reviews for years so nothing gets built who then turn around and get six figure jobs as environmental consultants to "help" businesses get things built.
There's no room for American workers in this dirty green racket.
After the worthless "private" assurances, once in office the Biden administration announced that it would be relying on foreign rare earth metals. Middle Class Joe’s betrayal of miners and the country had devastating consequences as China used the Taliban to secure Afghanistan’s rare earth mines even as a chip shortage wreaked havoc on the global supply chain.
Biden’s betrayal of miners also increased the prices of cars, laptops, and smartphones. Printer prices shot up 20%. And yet very few Biden voters understand that their own politician decisions are why they have to pay more for consumer electronics.
But the one thing you can count on from Democrat unions is that they will put the party first and their members last. And no matter how much their Democrat bosses humiliate them and spit in their faces, they’ll line up to ask for more while selling out their members one more time.
Democrats used to spout their love for the working class, now they have nothing but contempt for them. The dying breed of politicians who still know how to talk to working unions like Biden are nothing but puppets dancing for the amusement of their New York and SF donor bosses.
Biden betrayed steelworkers and miners. He’ll betray all workers and unions the same way. Even municipal unions, usually the pets of the Dems because of their role in taking the money from the contracts negotiated with their politicians and funneling it right back to them, were forced to swallow vaccine mandates and the firing of their members. And even the most combative radical unions like SEIU, usually willing to shut down everything, swallowed, and told their members to shut up and thank the union for its representation.
Over the spring, the United Mine Workers of America held a press conference cheering on Biden's plan to kill coal jobs and asking for money to "retrain" its members for new jobs.
Like shining Biden's shoes with green shoe polish.
“It’s not fair to take somebody’s job away from them and push them into another career,” a union member complained. “I love my job. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in this world. And I hope coal is continued to be mined for years after I’m gone.”
UMWA members are mad as hell about it. If only they had a union to represent them.
Biden’s Woke Puppet Regime is Trying to Survive
Biden is a prisoner of his party’s radical demographics.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Why is the Biden administration so radical?
It’s a question that came up at a recent conservative dinner party the way that it often does at conservative events. “Didn’t Biden run as a moderate,” people ask. “Why did he turn over the party to Bernie Sanders? And why is he doubling down even as his poll numbers are cratering?”
There are any number of answers. The Democrats have been radicalized as a political party. After eight years of Obama and two Hillary defeats, the party’s administration professionals are Obamaworld alumni. And much of the party’s funding comes from a handful of zip codes, especially in New York City and San Francisco, whose politics are radically leftward of America.
The popular explanation is that Biden’s out to lunch and Obama’s people are running him. There’s some partial truth to that, but it’s missing a big demographic truth that also helps us understand the epidemic of wokeness, the rise of critical race theory, and Black Lives Matter.
Why did so many major corporations embrace BLM and go woke? The same reason Biden did.
The Democrats like to talk about Two Americas, that of the rich and the poor, the black and the white, men and women, but there are really two Democrat parties. The split personality of the party used to be the rural and urban bases, but the rural base is vanishing or being ignored.
The 2020 Democrat presidential primaries provided a clear snapshot of its split personality. Beyond the shtick, there were two types of breakout candidates, those who targeted white lefty college graduates (Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren) and those who went after black voters (Joe Biden). Candidates who tried to do both (Kamala Harris, Cory Booker) flamed out early.
(Why was it so hard to do both? Because despite the BLM rallies and Robin DiAngelo books the two groups don’t like each other. It’s why so much of wokeness is not really targeted at conservatives, but is aimed at convincing white lefties to submit to a minority establishment. And the minority establishment works for those donors and organizations that pay its bills.)
Candidates who tried targeting another minority group (Pete Buttigieg, Julian Castro) got more traction, but failed to make their mark, so did the attempts to chase Hillary New Age voters (Marianne Williamson, Tom Steyer), Midwesterners (Amy Klobuchar, Tim Ryan), not to mention Bloomberg's billionaire parachute snap. Identity and class mattered more than anything else.
By rights, Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren should have won primaries whose base tilted sharply leftward. And had white Democrats been the only ones voting, they would have. But black voters dragged Biden through the primaries with bloc voting. Especially in the South. While white college graduate lefties split their votes, black voters maximized their power.
Biden's roll began by winning 61% of black voters in South Carolina, 72% in Alabama, 60% in Texas, 63% in Virginia. The reward for these wins was claimed by Congressional Black Caucus members, especially Rep. Jim Clyburn, and the old black Democrat establishment which pushed back against the Obama era and the new radicals to reclaim its traditional power.
Afterward the two halves of the party had to make their peace. The CBC took one half of Biden’s presidency and the Sandernistas took the other half. It’s why even beyond the Obama roots, the Biden administration is filled up with appointees handpicked by the CBC and by white radicals. With that kind of split, the only thing the Biden administration could be was radical.
But the party split has huge implications beyond the White House. The new corporate wokeness, like so much else, is the product of this same alliance between the two halves, wealthy white lefties and black activists. Black Lives Matter is another shotgun marriage of black nationalists and leftist foundations to seize political and cultural power through guilt and terror.
The cultural hegemony that gave us critical race theory in schools, corporations telling employees they’re racist, and the military brass embracing identity politics are all adaptations to the final form of the Democrats as an alliance between identity politics and the upscale Left.
The Biden administration is radical for the same reason that AT&T, Kellogg’s, and the Navy have been radicalized. Politics is about power and this is the power sharing arrangement of the elites.
But white lefties also don’t like Biden. They wanted Bernie or Elizabeth Warren. And their level of support for Biden remains weak. In a recent Marist poll conducted for PBS and NPR, only 28% of white college graduates who are or lean Democrat wanted another term of Biden. 45% thought another candidate would have a better shot. The only group where there was at least an even split over having Biden run again was non-whites. Black support for Biden has dropped significantly across the board, but it’s still well above the numbers among white voters.
The Biden administration’s political radicalism is a matter of political survival. As a weak candidate who barely survived the primaries and whom his own party would like to see step down even in his first year in office, he and his people can’t even afford to think about the general election, only their prospects for making it to and surviving the next primaries.
It’s an extraordinary situation that is virtually unprecedented in modern American history.
Biden has to frantically appease the Scylla and Charybdis of his party’s demographics, the old black leadership and the new white radicals, by promising them everything that they want. That leaves no room for the moderates, for rural voters, or for much of the country. And so the moderates decided to hold the Biden agenda hostage in order to force a compromise.
Why are Manchin and Sinema so confrontational? Because the administration shut them out.
This was a foreseen catastrophe that the Biden administration didn’t care about because it couldn’t afford to compromise and alienate its two core blocs until its hand was forced.
The same is true for virtually every administration policy and a future general election.
When people wonder why Biden is doing such a bad job of appealing to the country as a whole and why he isn’t hitting the reset button even as his poll numbers go red, it’s because he can’t afford to think about the country beyond the rote spin and talking points dispensed to the media.
Whatever else Biden is a prisoner of, he’s very much a prisoner of his party’s demographics.
Plan A was for the Biden administration to serve the policy demands of white lefty college grads and black activists while letting the media spin the outcome to the rest of the country. Even after that strategy fell apart with the humiliation in Afghanistan, and inflation, supply chain chaos, store shortages, and more economic turmoil at home, he can’t pull away from the blocs.
Biden isn’t worried about what the country thinks of him. He’s only worried about what the party thinks. And within the party, he’s only worried about what the two blocs think of him.
The 2020 primaries showed that having a concentrated bloc of voters in a fragmented party riven by identity politics and lacking any real convictions was the only way to win. Everything Biden has done, from picking Kamala to turning over his administration to Clyburn, Sanders, and Warren, is about protecting his pathway to a second term at any cost.
And really, isn’t that exactly what you would expect from a mediocre party hack who survived half a century in politics despite compulsive stupidity and creepiness because he knew how to play the game that really mattered? Whatever his mental state may be, he still knows the game.
Biden is a puppet. That’s the only thing an unpopular politician who is disliked even within his own party and whose reelection appears implausible could ever be. No matter how much power he officially wields, it’s all rented power, mortgaged to his backers who really call the shots.
The price of finally getting his dream job was eight years of humiliation under Obama followed by signing up to be the useful idiot for the coalition of lefty megadonors and CBC members who actually run the party and the presidency. Following their orders over whatever fossilized political instincts he still possesses has made Biden wildly unpopular with everyone.
Including the white lefties and black voters he was trying to appease.
Biden isn’t just a puppet: he’s an expendable puppet. Unlike Clinton or Obama, he was never billed as the new JFK. His identity isn’t tied to any larger worldview or ideology. And his fall wouldn’t mean the end of Camelot. No Democrat has been this expendable since Jimmy Carter.
Biden’s backers only need him long enough to ram through their various power and money grabs before he becomes completely unelectable either because of the polls or due to his mental condition. And that is ultimately why the Biden administration is so unambiguously radical. Normal administrations try to hold something back, but Biden is a fire-and-forget missile that is expected to burn out after hitting the target.
The radicalism of his administration is a kamikaze run by a hack too greedy for power to know that he’s really a suicide bomber and his backers are really his trainers and handlers.
Biden thinks he has a future. He’s too greedy or too far gone to realize that there’s no future.
The same is true of the various corporations and organizations going woke and being stripped for their institutional power, before going broke and otherwise being consumed in catastrophes.
In Year Zero when there is no past and everything old must be destroyed, Biden is no exception.
The corporate elite backed the bill because corporations stood to make a bundle from government contracts, subsidies and tax incentives, and because it was deemed essential to begin to address the infrastructure crisis in order to conduct economic and possibly military warfare against US capitalism’s major rivals, first and foremost China.
At the same time, the oligarchy launched a massive lobbying campaign against the social welfare/climate bill, and mobilized its most open and reactionary stooges in the Democratic Party, such as Sinema and West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, to either block its passage in the Senate or strip the bill of any measures, such as increased tax rates for corporations and the wealthy and expanded social entitlements, that impinged on its profits and wealth.
Biden, Democrats retreat on social spending as Congress passes pro-corporate infrastructure bill
What is being hailed as a triumph for President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda—the House passage Friday night of the bipartisan infrastructure bill—in fact marks a further shift to the right by the Democratic Party, which is effectively ending any serious push for increased spending on domestic social programs.
The bill—a stripped-down version of Biden’s initial $2.6 trillion infrastructure proposal, which allots only $550 billion in new money over 10 years—was passed near midnight by a vote of 228 to 209. It marked the final capitulation of the House Progressive Caucus and Senator Bernie Sanders to the demands of right-wing Democrats such as senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, now openly backed by Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to pass the corporate-backed infrastructure bill and effectively ditch most or all of the broader social welfare and climate “Build Back Better” legislation.
Last spring, Biden bowed to Republican demands to separate his proposals for addressing America’s crumbling physical infrastructure from proposals to address the dire social crisis caused by decades of cuts in social programs and windfalls for the rich, which has been immensely exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
But Biden pledged that he would not sign an infrastructure bill, which he insisted had to be bipartisan, unless Congress also passed his social welfare and climate bill. That would require the votes of all 50 Democrats in the Senate in order to avoid a filibuster and secure passage by majority vote under the budget reconciliation procedure. From the start, it was clear there would be no Republican support in the Senate for even modest increases in social programs or tax increases on corporations and the rich.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the time aligned herself with the Congressional Progressive Caucus and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sanders. They accepted Biden’s maneuver, based on the promise that the House would not act on an infrastructure bill until the Senate had passed the broader social spending measure.
Biden then appointed Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, among the most right-wing Democrats, to head up a bipartisan group of senators to fashion the infrastructure measure. The compromise bill—with less that 20 percent of the funding set out in Biden’s initial proposal—passed the Senate in August with 19 Republican votes, including that of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The bill—said to be worth $1.2 trillion, but including only $550 billion in newly allocated funding, the rest coming from unspent pandemic relief money—was enthusiastically backed by big business. The US Chamber of Commerce published a list of corporate organizations that supported the bill, including itself, the Business Roundtable, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Retail Federation and lobbying groups for the airlines, ports, trucking, rail and other sectors. Also on the list was the AFL-CIO and the building trades unions.
The corporate elite backed the bill because corporations stood to make a bundle from government contracts, subsidies and tax incentives, and because it was deemed essential to begin to address the infrastructure crisis in order to conduct economic and possibly military warfare against US capitalism’s major rivals, first and foremost China.
At the same time, the oligarchy launched a massive lobbying campaign against the social welfare/climate bill, and mobilized its most open and reactionary stooges in the Democratic Party, such as Sinema and West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, to either block its passage in the Senate or strip the bill of any measures, such as increased tax rates for corporations and the wealthy and expanded social entitlements, that impinged on its profits and wealth.
Once the infrastructure bill had passed the Senate, Manchin, Sinema and right-wing Democrats in the House demanded that the two bills be decoupled. They insisted that the House pass the infrastructure bill and send it to Biden’s desk to be signed into law, condemning the social spending bill to be totally gutted or blocked outright in the Senate.
This has now happened. In the meantime, Manchin—a multi-millionaire coal business owner—and Sinema—a former Green Party activist who traded in her Ralph Nader buttons for massive campaign bribes from Wall Street and far-right billionaires such as the De Vos family—have taken turns demanding cuts in the social spending bill. Neither has even now committed themselves to vote for a stripped-down version, reduced from Sanders’ $6 trillion in the spring to $3.5 trillion in September and to $1.75 trillion (over 10 years) in its latest iteration.
All but six of the “progressive” Democrats joined 13 Republicans in ensuring passage of the infrastructure bill late Friday, following a hectic day of closed-door talks in Pelosi’s Capitol office and telephone calls from Biden to recalcitrant Democrats. That included a group of six right-wingers who refused to go along with the leadership’s plan to vote on both bills on Friday so that the Democrats could say, dishonestly, that the promise to couple the two measures had been kept. They said they would not vote for the social spending bill until the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had released its estimate on the cost—a process that could take weeks. That would delay or sink the infrastructure bill in the House, where the Democrats have a very thin majority.
The so-called progressives, including the “Squad”—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib—had agreed to the deception. But when the leadership secured a deal for the right-wing group to pledge conditional support for the social spending bill, assuming the CBO’s scoring of the bill aligned with that of the Biden administration, Pelosi agreed to delay action on “Build Back Better” until the week of November 15.
The White House and Pelosi then turned on the Progressive Caucus to demand that it stop procrastinating and vote for the infrastructure bill that evening. Representative Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the caucus, quickly fell into line as did all but the six members of the “Squad.” Significantly, Pelosi mobilized the Black Congressional Caucus to put the screws on Jayapal and her caucus, highlighting the right-wing, pro-corporate role of the direct beneficiaries of the Democrats’ promotion of racial and identity politics.
The dissent of the six “Squad” members—several of whom are affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America—was itself part of the sordid political maneuvering. As the New York Times reported: “Still, Ms. Pressley waited to make sure the infrastructure bill had enough votes to pass before she voted against the measure.”
The catalyst that brought the protracted process of whittling down Biden’s progressive reform pretensions to their present state—“ a remnant of a fig leaf ,” as the World Socialist Web Site put it—was the Democratic electoral debacle on November 2. The WSWS predicted the response of the Democratic Party would be a “violent” lurch further to the right. This has already been confirmed in the de facto ditching of the social welfare/climate bill.
Ten months after defeated ex-President Donald Trump unleashed a fascist mob on the Capitol to overturn the 2020 election and the US Constitution, Trump-backed Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated former Governor Terry McAuliffe in Virginia, a state that had voted for Biden by a margin of 10 points. The Republicans won all statewide races, taking over the posts of lieutenant governor and attorney general, as well as gaining control of the Virginia House of Delegates.
In the Democratic bastion of New Jersey, incumbent Phil Murphy barely scraped by to win a second term.
The response of the Democratic Party and the media was to blame the Democratic rout on the so-called “progressives,” who had supposedly pulled the party too far to the left in “right-center” America. The demand, echoing the position of the corporate-financial oligarchy, was that Biden and the party leadership demonstratively abandon any talk of social reform and get on with the business of reopening the economy in the midst of the raging pandemic and “restore normalcy,” i.e., use whatever means necessary to put down the growing rebellion in the working class, marked by a determined strike wave and rank-and-file rejection of union-backed sellout contracts.
This was spelled out in an editorial in the New York Times on Friday, which demanded that the Democrats do more to appease “moderates” and Republicans, and drop their social reform pretenses, including in the “Build Back Better” bill.
The claim that Biden had moved too far “left” is absurd. His administration has from the start sought to rehabilitate the Republican Party even as the Republicans continue to back Trump and his ongoing plot to overthrow the US Constitution. Biden has continued Trump’s homicidal “herd immunity” policy on the pandemic, dropped any fight against the Republican assault on voting rights, abandoned police reform, stepped up attacks on immigrants on the border, and worked to cover up the scale of the January 6 coup attempt and the continuing threat to democratic rights.
At the same time, it has continued to promote racialist and identity politics, in an effort to divide the working class, and sought to prop up the trade union bureaucracy to suppress the growing rebellion of workers across the US.
As for the “historic” and “transformational” infrastructure bill, the average of $55 billion a year in new money is a fraction of the $760 billion for a single year allotted to the military in Biden’s defense budget. The Federal Reserve is continuing to pump $105 billion every month into the financial markets, and that, combined with the trillions in corporate bailouts from the 2020 bipartisan CARES Act, has led to a record rise in the stock market, fueling an increase in US billionaires’ wealth of $1.8 trillion in the first 18 months of the pandemic.
The bill provides roughly $110 billion for roads and bridges, $66 billion for rail, and nearly $40 billion for transit. It includes $73 million to modernize the electricity grid, $65 billion to expand high-speed internet service, and $55 billion to upgrade the water system.
The utter inadequacy of these sums to seriously address the infrastructure crisis—the result of decades of neglect and funneling of resources to the corporate-financial oligarchy—is shown by the latest estimate of the American Society of Civil Engineers, which says there is a $786 billion backlog for roads and bridges alone.
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Biden’s poll numbers continue to collapse
Thanks to relentless mainstream media propaganda, Joe Biden entered the Oval office with very good poll numbers. Despite the contentious campaign season and the even more contentious election, Americans were willing to give Biden the benefit of the doubt, with 57% of them expressing approval for him in the first weeks of his presidency. Since then, he’s had nowhere to go but down. The latest poll puts his approval at 38% and the slide shows no signs of stopping.
The most recent presidential approval poll comes from USA TODAY/Suffolk University and was taken between Wednesday and Friday last week. That means it caught the responses to the elections on Tuesday, including the way Virginia, which easily gave its Electoral College votes to Biden in 2020, has now turned red, with a Republican Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and State House.
USA TODAY sums up the most recent poll results:
A year before the 2022 midterm elections, Republicans hold a clear lead on the congressional ballot as President Joe Biden’s approval rating sinks to a new low of 38%.
A USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, taken Wednesday through Friday, found that Biden’s support cratered among the independent voters who delivered his margin of victory over President Donald Trump one year ago.
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Among the findings:
- Nearly half of those surveyed, 46%, say Biden has done a worse job as president than they expected, including 16% of those who voted for him. Independents, by 7-1 (44%-6%), say he’s done worse, not better, than they expected.
- Nearly two-thirds of Americans, 64%, say they don’t want Biden to run for a second term in 2024. That includes 28% of Democrats. Opposition to Trump running for another term in 2024 stands at 58%, including 24% of Republicans.
- Vice President Kamala Harris’ approval rating is 28% – even worse than Biden’s. The poll shows that 51% disapprove of the job she’s doing. One in 5, 21%, are undecided.
- Americans overwhelmingly support the infrastructure bill Biden is about to sign, but they are split on the more expensive and further-reaching “Build Back Better” act being debated in Congress. Only 1 in 4 say the bill’s provisions would help them and their families.
This is impressive in its own way and shows the one place in which both Biden and Harris are over-achievers: They succeed when it comes to failing. Even their “Build Back Better” bill, which is meant to be the centerpiece of the Biden administration, gets support from only 25% of voters.
Given that both Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin seem to understand that reality, it’s hard to imagine how the Democrats will be able to push the bill through—although one should never underestimate the role that the Vichy Republicans will play, as they did when it came to the House vote on Friday passing the “infrastructure” bill. Marjorie Taylor Greene said it best:
It’s possible that the media will be unable to prop Joe Biden up any longer. With soaring inflation, runaway fuel prices, international humiliations, a deliberately broken border, the obsession with anti-White racism, the transgender indoctrination in schools and other institutions, and the hated, unnecessary, and unconstitutional vaccine mandates, all the feel-good stories in the world about ice cream and the absence of mean tweets will be useless. Moreover, given that voters have substantive reasons to dislike Joe, even if he bows out and Kamala steps in (or a different Veep gets the job), as long as the policies continue, the Democrats will be reviled.
The only fly in the ointment is that the Republican National Committee is practically guaranteed to throw its support behind the Mitt Romneys and Liz Cheneys in the party rather than the Trumps, Ted Cruzes, Josh Hawleys, and Marjorie Taylor Greenes. The RNC is the Democrat-lite party and it is as hostile to true conservatives as the Democrats themselves are.
(My pronouns for this post are “Believe the polls” and “My dog could do a better job.” What are your pronouns?)
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