Few people are more concerned over President Biden’s abysmal poll numbers than internal Democratic Party strategists. They see the real happenings in the country and how voters are responding, absent the spin of the White House. The numbers don’t lie, and the attitude of voters hasn’t been swayed by a poorly received State of the Union address or a rally against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Biden continues to flounder and struggle on every critical challenge facing the country.
As some of these strategists watch Biden’s poll numbers in crucial states like Arizona, it’s becoming clear that Democrats need to come to terms with the shellacking that’s likely to happen in November:
Democrats for months have feared they will lose the House majority this fall, and they are worried about losing the Senate, too, with polls showing Biden performing poorly in key states such as Arizona.
“It’s bad,” said one Democratic strategist. “You have an energy crisis that’s paralyzing and inflation is at a 40-year high and we’re heading into a recession. The problem is simple. The American people have lost confidence in him.”
The news from the job market on Friday was that the U.S. economy added 431,000 jobs in March, more signs of a strong economy. Yet those figures have not translated into a boost for Biden.
“My hypothesis is that, unless and until inflation comes down appreciably, that there’s going to be a ceiling on his job approval that’s a lot lower than the White House wants it to be,” said Bill Galston, chair of the Brookings Institution’s governance studies program and a former domestic policy adviser to President Clinton.
Biden’s moves since taking office have all been in the wrong direction and resulted in a weaker America. The energy problem is probably on the forefront right now with a misguided push for green energy. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine gave the American people a firsthand look at what it means to be reliant on foreign oil at a time of global upheave. It’s not pretty and it’s infuriating given the amount of domestic oil America could be tapping into.
Things must be so bad at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that they’re bringing back former President Barack Obama to the rescue:
Former President Barack Obama will be joining President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House on Tuesday in his first public event there since the end of his second mandate in 2017.
The event on Tuesday will celebrate the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also informally known as “Obamacare,” the reform of the health care system promoted by Obama which aimed at making health insurance affordable to every American.
The event comes at a time when Biden has very little to celebrate: inflation has surged to its worst level in a generation, and the president’s popularity among Americans has remained quite low, with only 41.1 percent of people approving of Biden as of April 1, according to estimates by FiveThirtyEight.
Health insurance is still a sore subject for many Americans given the way ObamaCare upended and destroyed the individual and small group insurance market. A focus on health insurance and letting Obama come in to take credit for a law passed 12 years ago seems like a waste of time. Once again, the Biden administration is focusing on something that is not on the list of top priorities for voters.
A photo-op with Obama will look cute and serve no real purpose other than to remind Democratic voters that Biden’s no-growth presidency is an extension of Obama’s slow-growth presidency. Remember, Obama was such a fantastic president, allegedly, he was succeeded by Donald J. Trump, a man offering a very different vision for the country compared to Hillary Clinton campaigning for Obama’s third term.
Obama can’t save Biden from himself and his bad decisions. As a VP, Biden’s blunders were contained and more harmless. As a President, his blunders are an embarrassment on the world stage and his domestic policies are eating paychecks and destroying household budgets from coast to coast.
Democrats are right to be concerned, but they’re concerned for the wrong reason. Losing Congress in November is a political loss. For the time being, the country is suffering consequential losses in terms of stagnating wages and skyrocketing costs of household goods.
