The first week of February proved to be a hell of a news cycle for President Joe Biden. Depending on what happens in November, it may go down as the week he lost the election.
Can he do well enough in New Hampshire to cause Democrats to rethink another Biden candidacy?
“Obama is pushing Biden to push his political operation outside and beyond his advisors. Translation, Barack and Michelle are taking over, and the media agrees.”
The Obama courtier David Axelrod tiptoed near a truth recently: If Donald Trump is everything Democrats say, they ought to nominate a candidate who is better able to beat him.
Mr. Biden is like a President Clouseau fumbling around a room and breaking everything he touches.
On the question of presidential mendacity, according to a recent Economist/YouGov poll, only 39% of U.S. adults think Mr. Biden is honest and trustworthy. Also, despite the President’s years of denials regarding his family’s enrichment schemes, the latest Harvard-Harris Poll finds that a full 60% of respondents believe he helped and participated in Hunter Biden’s business.
Most of the 2,000-plus respondents to the Harvard-Harris poll said that they have doubts about President Biden’s mental fitness to serve as commander-in-chief, while more voters said he is worsening as president rather than improving.
His vetoes, his foreign trips, his upcoming debate with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis: It all adds up to something like a shadow presidential campaign by California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The latest Siena College-New York Times poll of six battleground states, released on the weekend, is a five-alarm fire for Democrats a year before the election. It shows Mr. Biden losing to Donald Trump in five of six states on which the 2024 election is likely to hang.
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