Biden could be dragging Democrats into ‘political earthquake’: NYT guest essay
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A New York Times Tuesday guest essay predicted that President Biden could be dragging the Democrats into a “political earthquake” after a poll found that in 2021 more Americans are identifying as Republicans than as Democrats, a first in decades.
There was a great difference in Democrats’ popularity in 2021 versus the previous year, which Christopher Caldwell attributes in part to Biden. Gallup found that Republicans outperform Democrats in Americans’ party preferences at 47% compared to Democrats’ 42%.
“Since Gallup began tallying party identification in 1991, Democrats have averaged a four-point lead,” according to Caldwell.
Biden appears to lose popularity apparently synchronously with his party. A January Quinnipiac poll found Biden’s approval to be at 33%, with the majority of Americans disappointed in the president’s handling of COVID-19, foreign policy, and the economy. The poll reflects historic inflation , the withdrawal from Afghanistan , and Biden’s failure to " shut down the virus " as he promised during his 2020 campaign.
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Caldwell said Biden’s widely-panned remarks in Atlanta, which compared those who oppose his election reform agenda to reviled figures in American history, is politically poisonous for the Democrats.
“When … Biden told an Atlanta crowd this month that those who opposed this bill were on the same side as Alabama’s segregationist Governor George Wallace and the Confederacy’s President Jefferson Davis, he was arguably combining the condescension of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 ‘deplorables’ remark with a kind of anti-white race-baiting. That is electorally dangerous,” Caldwell wrote.
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Americans are not buying the story Democrats are selling, according to Caldwell.
“Roughly since the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, Democrats have been telling a story about the country that focuses way too much on race and way too much on Donald Trump,” he wrote. “Democrats have been led astray by their Trump obsession. They have misunderstood what the former president represented to voting Americans. … Trump tapped into smoldering grievances against various information-economy elites and managers. There is no reason that ethnic-minority voters wouldn’t share some of those grievances.”
Hannity: ‘I don’t really give a rip what Joe Biden says to anybody’
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Sean Hannity vowed not to “fake and feign moral outrage” over President Biden calling Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a b—-” in Tuesday’s opening monologue of “Hannity.”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki did not apologize for Biden’s profane insult Tuesday, instead saying Biden assured Doocy in a phone call that “‘it was nothing personal, man,’ and also acknowledged that all [reporters] were going to ask him a range of questions.”
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" … [U]nlike fake news CNN and every liberal in the country, we’re not going to fake and feign moral outrage," Hannity said. “I don’t really give a rip what Joe Biden says to anybody. ‘It’s not personal’? Fine. I’ll take it that way. Joe is apparently unable to control his bursts of anger and so many other cognitive troubles.”
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The Fox News host criticized Biden for his day Tuesday, which included a visit to a clothing boutique and a stop for ice cream.
When asked about the risk of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, Biden answered that “it’s a little bit like reading tea leaves.”
“There you have it, the Biden doctrine — reading the tea leaves, just like he read the tea leaves in Afghanistan,” Hannity responded.
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“Whoever is really running the show in the White House, we, the American people, are not stupid,” Hannity said. “Now it is painfully obvious to everyone: Joe is not fit to serve. U.S. presidents don’t just hang out at ice cream parlors and then call it a day at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. That is not normal. And of course, by all accounts, Joe has never been … to be blunt, the sharpest tool in the shed anyway. Remember, he plagiarized speeches, cheated in law school, still finished near the bottom of his class — lied about that too. High-level officials in the Obama administration, they even openly mocked Joe for getting pretty much everything wrong. But now it’s serious and much worse.”
To Highlight Economic Growth, Biden Goes Shopping for Gifts
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By JOSH BOAK, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden pledged last week to chat more with everyday Americans and took an initial step Tuesday afternoon by visiting a gift shop and ice cream store in Washington’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Biden went shopping at Honey Made, a boutique that opened up last year amid the pandemic. The president perused the store, choosing a hoodie for his grandson and a necklace for his wife, Jill. He then picked up a mug with a picture of Vice President Kamala Harris on it.
“I’ll get this one, too,” he said.
The excursion occurred as the administration is trying to spotlight the healthier parts of the economy, at a time when many Americans are fretting over inflation at a nearly 40-year high. Higher prices have overshadowed the clear gains under Biden’s watch as the unemployment rate has improved sharply to 3.9% and the economy is poised for the strongest growth since 1984.
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The White House issued a fact sheet as Biden shopped that said the administration had provided $400 billion in aid to more than 6 million small businesses. Biden opened his presidency by securing a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, which helped to keep cash-strapped companies in business and boosted consumer demand. But strong demand and troubled supply chains led to higher prices, creating what is now a political challenge for a president who has seen his approval slip as the country has struggled to recover from the pandemic.
The president followed his time at Honey Made by greeting nearby members of the U.S. Marine Corps and then stopping at Jeni’s Ice Cream for several scoops in a waffle scone.
After stepping out Tuesday, Biden will meet Wednesday with the heads of General Motors, Ford, Microsoft, Salesforce and Etsy, among other CEOs, to discuss the benefits of his economic agenda that has stalled in the Senate, according to a White House official. The official insisted on anonymity to preview the plans. These executives support the agenda even though Biden has proposed corporate tax increases.
Biden plans to visit Pittsburgh on Friday to highlight the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal that he signed into law last year.
Biden says US-based troops may embark for Europe soon
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President Biden made clear Tuesday that there would not “be any American forces moving into Ukraine,” though U.S. troops could be moved to Europe in the “near term.” The troops may head to NATO front-line countries if Russian begins a large military operation against Ukraine.
Biden’s comments to reporters in Washington come as the White House has urged Americans to leave Ukraine, saying that the security situation in the region “can deteriorate with little notice.”
“There are reports Russia is planning significant military action against Ukraine. The security conditions, particularly along Ukraine’s borders, in Russia-occupied Crimea, and in Russia-controlled eastern Ukraine, are unpredictable and can deteriorate with little notice,” said a State Department travel advisory Sunday.
The president compared a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine to the kind of operation not seen in Europe since World War II, saying the country would face “enormous consequences” if it attacked its neighbor.
“There will be enormous consequences if he were to go and invade … for Russia,” Biden said when asked to assess the risk that Russian President Vladimir Putin would opt to invade Ukraine. “Not only in terms of economic consequences and political consequences, but there would be enormous consequences worldwide.”
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Biden said that such an invasion would “change the world,” comparing the scope of the situation to World War II.
“If he were to move in with all those forces, it would be the largest invasion since World War II,” Biden said.
The president said trying to predict what Putin will do is like “reading tea leaves,” noting that it will ultimately be Putin’s decision on what to do with all the troops Russia has amassed on the Ukrainian border.
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But officials in Ukraine have sought to calm fears that an invasion could be imminent, arguing that the situation is currently “under control.”
“There are risky scenarios. They’re possible and probable in the future,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said Monday. “But as of today … such a threat doesn’t exist.”
Jesse Watters: Joe Biden has proven himself ‘defective’ and the media are ‘pulling him off the shelves’
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In the inaugural episode of “Jesse Watters Primetime” Monday night, Jesse Watters pledged to expose those who are disrespecting the American people and to celebrate those who are forwarding American values and liberties.
On Tuesday, the host honored his pledge, offering a fresh take on the country’s dissatisfaction with President Biden and the media’s role in deliberately misrepresenting him to the American people with colorful analogies in typical Watters fashion.
“Most of you women watching have been on a blind date,” Watters began. “You know what it’s like, your friends get you all excited about this mystery guy. They talk him up, tell you is he funny smart handsome and interesting…then you show up. And instead of sitting down for dinner with John Stamos you realize you are eating with Michael Moore…and somewhere in between your salad and steak you realize you have made a terrible mistake.”
“Now, that’s essentially what happened to America with Joe Biden,” Watters said. “The media spent the last few years serving as Biden’s hype man, promising us he’s a moderate, that he’s a great union fighter bring the country back together. Confident and calm. They insisted we were the perfect match because Joe was blue-collar Biden, America always loves a working-class hero. So the media turned Joe into one.”
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Watters pointed to a video montage of Biden proudly touting his Scranton, Pennsylvania roots during the 2020 campaign in an effort to appeal to working-class Americans. What the media won’t tell you, said Watters, is that Biden moved to Delaware with his family at the age of 10 and has lived there since.
“In reality, the blue-collar Biden was never that blue-collar,” remarked Watters, pointing to Biden’s storied financial history.
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“The Biden family balance sheet has always been full of questionable details. But the media doesn’t care to look into it because it destroys their narrative. Biden is just a product they sold to beat Trump,” Watters said. “And now that product, Joe Biden, is defective, and they are starting to pull him from the shelves.
“They told us Biden was calm, cool and collected, and a wise man with a steady hand. But he has shown us that he is anything but.”