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August 23, 2022

Democrats’ spin Biden success and wish upon a star for midterm magic but don’t you believe it

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Are Republicans really about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?

That’s what the liberal media would have you believe. For the past few weeks the New York Times, Washington Post et al – the usual message boards for the Democratic National Committee – have been celebrating Joe Biden’s slightly rising poll numbers and legislative “accomplishments.”

“Biden is on a roll” trumpeted the Times recently, quoting White House aides claiming the president has enjoyed a “string of victories [that] compares favorably to the two-year legislative record of most any other modern president.”

According to the Times, Biden recently descended from Air Force One with a “jaunty step, a playful manner and a huge grin” – that’s how reinvigorated the 79-year old president is. Once again, the Times reports, within the halls of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Biden is being likened to LBJ or FDR.

Politico ran a piece under the headline, “Wait, Is Biden a Better President Than People Thought?

The simple answer is: no. Biden is still an unpopular, ineffective president whose recent promise to get out on the campaign trail (now that he has recovered from COVID) must have Democrat candidates shaking in their boots.

Few want the president at their side when they are trying to explain to Americans why egg prices are up 38% in the past year and why Covid-19 still haunts the land despite Biden’s promise that the vaccine would kill off the virus. They can’t imagine Biden’s response when voters ask how our booming economy fell into recession, or why Democrats are allowing some 2 million people to enter the U.S. illegally this year. Or when Americans ask how the president plans to make our cities’ streets safe again.

It is true that Biden’s team finally put some points up on the board. They managed to pass a bill fraudulently titled The Inflation Reduction Act that only 12% of the nation thinks will actually reduce inflation. Instead, the bill addresses climate change, which fails to rank in the top eleven issues most concerning to Americans and will do almost nothing to stem global warming.

The bill does offer some help for Medicare patients struggling to buy prescription drugs, but most of the savings won’t show up until 2025 or later, which could disappoint many.

But… it also promises middle income Americans and small business owners a more invasive fully-armed army of 87,000 new IRS agents tasked with uncovering tax cheats. That should be popular.

Biden can also boast about allowing the assassination of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, inflation of only 8.5% (it was even worse) and the signing of the bipartisan Chips bill.

The list of victories is pretty thin but after a catastrophic first year marked by epically low approval ratings, which included our disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, Democrats appear elated. Talk about setting a low bar!

Joe Biden now averages 40.8 approval and 55.9 disapproval in polls, according to Real Clear Politics. The negative gap is 15.1, up marginally from 19.9 in late July. Not much to cheer about.

But cheering is heard far and wide, especially because Democrats think that the tick up in Biden’s standing will protect their majorities in Congress.

Left-leaning political pundits now suggest Republican gains will be modest, with the GOP probably taking control of the House, but not likely to win a majority in the Senate.

Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader-in-waiting, recently echoed Dem skepticism about a “red wave”, musing that “there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate.”

The Washington Post described McConnell’s comments as “grim 2022 expectations-setting”, writing that the Republican senator reflected an “emerging reality” of improving Democrat prospects.

Based on what? A narrowing of the generic Congressional ballot? Poll problems for a couple of Republican candidates in important swing states?

Democrats think (rightly) that bad-mouthing GOP prospects will dry up fundraising (and enthusiasm) for Republican candidates. They want the GOP to give up.

But it is way too early for Republicans to hang up their cleats. Even the Post also admitted that McConnell’s remarks provided an “early start” to election predictions.

Tradition has it that most voters do not start paying attention to midterm elections until after Labor Day, and that tides can turn within weeks of the actual voting.

It is worth remembering that in the year leading up to the November 2010 election, when Democrats suffered one of the biggest “wave” defeats of all time, losing an historic 63 seats, the generic ballot see-sawed back and forth. Even in late October, a Newsweek poll showed Democrats leading by 3 points.

So, much as it is fun to dissect the current political mood, it is worth remembering that much can change in the next eleven weeks.

Inflation, and the economy, are key, and favor Republicans. We have recently experienced two down quarters in a row – a recession. The current period looks weak and getting weaker; the Atlanta Fed third quarter GDP now estimate is for growth of 1.6% , down from 2.5% ten days ago.

Inflation, meanwhile, is cooling but way too high. The Federal Reserve will be forced to ratchet interest rates higher, further dampening growth.

That will probably mean another leg down for stock prices; at the same time, the housing market is trending down. A drop in consumer net worth hurts confidence and spending.

The one bright spot for households has been the robust jobs market, but a recent survey by Price Waterhouse shows half of business leaders cutting staff or planning to do so, with 52% implementing hiring freezes.

That crazy-strong jobs market that Joe Biden touts may disappear before November.

An uncertain economy, ongoing inflation and weaker jobs market won’t help Democrats. Neither will rampant crime and out-of-control illegal immigration.

Today, 74% of Americans think our country is heading in the wrong direction.  Americans will vote for change, and yes, we will have a red wave.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/democrats-spin-biden-success-wish-upon-star-midterm-magic

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Are you better off than you were 2 years ago?
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Are you better off than you were two years ago? That’s what Republicans will ask voters a year from now.

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Inflation is worldwide and COVID induced.

No Trump, No Trump Doctrine

There's a growing rumble, by the minute, from people all over the planet who are suddenly missing Trump's policies, not necessarily Trump.

First, Trump's policies, domestic and foreign, were clear and common-sense driven which is anathema to the Swamp control freaks who thrive on complication and confusion to mask their real agendas and who they're really working for.

Second, the hypocrites who are now lamenting Trump's policies are the same, domestic and foreign, who fought Trump every inch of the way to prevent the implementation of policies that clearly worked.

Third, without Trump the fighter, no Trump policies would have ever seen the light of day.

And without what is now collectively the Trump Doctrine, what clear metric would we have to truly understand the depth and devastation of the Biden/Swamp debacle?

Don't you know that the global supply chain story is done on purpose for there to be empty shelves at the grocery stores and what not to screw with the public. This is done by the world economic Forum with the likes of Klaus Schwab Bill Gates and George Soros and their ilk

YOU are the delusional personality, dear. Sticking it against the US to please 🖕trump and putin. Disgusting anti American.

Nope

Maybe Liz you would support some immigration reform , you bitch about not having enough servers in your entitled selfish world , oh and you are against mask wearing too , how trumpian of you, the pandemic is all a hoax to you , just dont get sick out there might not be any hospital beds for you . The drs and nurses are sick and tired of taking care of anti mask anti vax selfish repubs Go claim your Darwin Award .

Stupid doesn't describe Liz Peek well enough. No one knows who you are so whenever you troll your way onto some useless FOX program, you utter absurd TDS infected nonsense. Stay smart Mensa. I will never have you on my radio talk show.

how soon some forget. after herschel loses- PRES TRUMP got these jobs done- cheap gas. no soldier deaths the last 18 months of afghan when he was in office. He cut taxes. the largest in America's history. cut regulations. got us out of the Iran deal. put the american embassy in jerusalem. took it to the terrorists. such as soleimani, and al-baghdadi. built the wall on our southern border on 350 miles of our southern border. REAL MEDIAN household income grew to $68,703 in 2019, an impressive 6.8% increase over 2018. While the overall growth rate was 6.8%, real median income grew by an even greater 7.9% for Black Americans, 7.1% for Hispanic Americans, and 10.6% for Asian Americans. All record highs as were the new income levels for each of these groups. Joe's handlers are heading us to the "misery index" purposely. Did I say cheap gas? Please list for me what Joe's handlers have done for you? be the first to answer my question. LOL

TRUMP VS THE GLOBALIST MURDOCH MEDIA EMPIRE

This has been brewing from the day Trump became president and refused to tow the line for the Murdochs or anybody else in the Swamp Establishment, comprised of RINOS, the Democratic Party, their globalist masters and media propagandists all rolled into one.

And it's been a non-stop, phony, six-year witch hunt ever since.

What's breaking out across media land is the central battle between the self-serving globalist crowd who want to rule the world as their personal piggy bank and their greatest obstacle: a strong, independent, self-sustaining American Middle Class of all stripes and creeds – in the majority – that made this country great and will not be told how to think, how to live their lives, raise their families or certainly how to vote.

The big threat here is Trump's policies that worked for and empowered the American people, not the Swamp full of special interests. Not to mention the eye-opening example Trump's successful policies set for people around the world who are needlessly suffering under globalist rule.

We became known as the land of the free for hard-earned reasons.

Now the globalists want to drag us back to the good old feudal days of serfdom where we get to labor for their great benefit while with our heads bowed we are given the privilege of eking out basic subsistence for ourselves and our families.

The Murdochs have launched in unison their media troops/mouthpieces in a full frontal assault. Some who have been chomping at the bit, others, it appears, reluctantly. With big paychecks hanging in the balance, it'll be interesting to see who, if anybody, breaks ranks.

DeSantis has done a great job as governor of Florida, has great potential and to his credit has followed Trump's lead in revolutionizing the Republican Party as the party of the people.

But there's no appeasing the Swamp globalists. The billionaire class is impatient. They are solely focused on creating the trillionaire class and will not be denied.

As push is now coming to shove, DeSantis will have to clearly pick a side. There's no middle ground here.

You either work for the globalists and follow orders or you work for the people. If DeSantis sides with the people, in a nanosecond the globalists and their minions will turn on him with the exact same tactics they've been using on Trump for the past six years.

So, finally, it's on, out in the open for all to see. And long overdue.

The stakes could not be higher.

President Trump lost the election you are such a dummy he got over 95 million the other yo-yo got about 45 million the rest was fake you're a disgrace. Www.magapill.com

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Progressives got hammered on Election Day- but that was only the latest big defeat. What does this mean for Dems? Can Joe pivot? (spoiler-probably not)
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They may not know it yet, but the ultra-liberal cabal that has choked Democrat politics and humiliated spineless party leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has lost its mojo.

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Liz have you not heard latest on the “russia collusion” “steele dossier” Fiona Hill???
Or are you a typical msm reporter?

President Trump lost the election you are such a dummy he got over 95 million the other yo-yo got about 45 million the rest was fake you're a disgrace. Www.magapill.com

Liz Peek

2 years ago

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Joe Biden wanted to be an historic president- and he has done that. Worst ratings slide of any president since WWII.
He (or whoever is running WH) doesn’t care about voters’ top issues – instead Team Biden obsessing about climate change, gender and race.
No wonder he’s in trouble!
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Liz Peek: Biden vs. Americans – his priorities, like climate change, ignore top worries of most voters

Voters are worried about inflation, jobs, crime, education and our open border, while the Biden White House is laser-focused on climate change, transgender rights, racism and reducing inequality.

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The great days turned to very bad days in less than a year.
Congress needs a flip to GOP next year to stop the craziness

Climate change is important.
The GOP may not care about it now, but their children will.
He is trying to get an infrastructure bill through.
He has had issues with Afghanistan, but what else could he do
The people who are taking over Afghanistan were released by the previous administration.
I am sure that Biden is not perfect but he is better than Trump.

Your bias is ridiculous. Makes you a bad writer. Btw avg teacher pay is way above 31000. Sensationalize much?

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Duuuuuh President Trump lost the election you are such a dummy he got over 95 million the other yo-yo got about 45 million the rest was fake you're a disgrace. Www.magapill.com

worst ratings only from a side thats ignorant to the truth. the effects of coming off a pandemic with oil companies profitting off the pumps in order to pay their shareholders back from profits lost. inflation effects the entire world but of course your base doesnt pull their heads out their asses for one second to look around and use common sense. keep spreading bullshit and weakening our country til it no longer functions as a democracy….bc i see through your fake Christian patriotic pow wows. you are the opposite of ehat you claim and you are the definition of what you claim your rivals are. deflection, projection, hypocrisy. 3 words that sum you up

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