There has been a subtle morphing in the thrust of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' argument for another term in the White House. It's not really a good look.
For several months now, positive accomplishments in the first term, were there to actually be any that can be documented, seemed or a while to be on what the President wanted to focus. 'We're doing great, economically,' Joe Biden would mutter at every campaign stop, along with the classic, "I reduced the deficit/debt by over a trillion dollars," which of course is laughably untrue. Job growth, which is more like job recovery from the pandemic, and the wildly preposterous claim of lowering inflation that was at 9% when he got here, are all parts of the stump speech from the stumped 81-year old president and his stump-stupid vice president.
There has not been a poll in the last few months where Joe Biden's job approval is not underwater by at least ten points, and in some surveys, as much as 23 points. Real Clear Politics currently has Biden's index average at -15.6.
Joe Biden himself, The White House Press Office, and Biden/Harris campaign flunkies will tell you that the weak numbers are because media is not doing its job by presenting the good news that everything is awesome. After the State of the Union, Biden even sent a frustrated letter to regime media lashing out for not being in the tank enough.
He is, of course, is referring to the same media that has yet to offer a mea culpa, much less a correction of the record, that Hunter Biden's laptop, in fact, is Hunter Biden's laptop. In case you have forgotten the length to which regime media interfered in the 2020 Election, here's a 20-minute highlight reel. You owe it to yourself to watch it all the way through, if for no other reason than to remind yourself that no matter how much you hate the media, it's not nearly enough.
The FBI just admitted in court that Hunter Biden's laptop is real.
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) June 5, 2024
Here are 20 minutes of Joe Biden, U.S. intelligence officials, and the American media claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop was "Russian disinformation."
The FBI has had possession of Hunter's laptop since… pic.twitter.com/5lzQaXitwq
Joe Biden's former press secretary, Jen Psaki, is now a host on MSNBC. She's part of regime media. But for all intents and purposes, she never was not a part of the same sideline. She merely switched from defense to special teams. She offered up this analysis earlier in the week, pleading with the campaign to jettison the accomplishments stuff and instead focus on the only thing that can save him - Orange Man Bad.
Orange man bad has indeed been a staple of this entire administration, from January 20th, 2021 forward. If this campaign cycle were a college education, orange man bad would definitely be their declared major. Kamala Harris would also like a minor in abortion studies, but I'm going to terminate that discussion right jere without further development. Let's stick to their only winning strategy - orange man bad.
After the show trial verdict in lower Manhattan by Juan "Beria" Merchan, it took about 30 seconds before Donald Trump's name had apparently been legally changed in regime media to Convicted Felon Donald Trump. Biden/Harris '24 took a little longer to actually use that rhetoric, but use it, they have.
Wednesday, the campaign took irony and projection to an entirely new art form, dropping this nugget of a press release.
Biden-Harris campaign statement on convicted felon Donald Trump confirming his Project 2025 plan to jail his opponents pic.twitter.com/j9ELJI1J6D
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) June 5, 2024
If campaign spin were movies, this one would be shown in Dolby Imax.
They're worried Convicted Felon Donald Trump, convicted of a felony that no one - not Judge Merchan, not Alvin Bragg, not the jury, not Donald Trump, nor anyone in the legal profession can actually define. Remember, the 34 counts of falsifying records are misdemeanors, and they have long since passed their sell-by date of statute of limitations. They're only felonies due to the commission of (insert unspecified felony here). Yet we're on the threshold of a hearing in July that could actually jail Joe Biden's opponent, and yet the Biden camp is concerned about what Trump might do down the road if he's reelected.
Byron York of the Washington Examiner and Fox News notes the obvious.
Shouldn't there be even a tiny bit of self-awareness here? Just a little? pic.twitter.com/lCeXHlKFTJ
— Byron York (@ByronYork) June 5, 2024
The terrifying prospect for Team Biden, which includes regime media, is that the verdict has had no impact thus far on the polling at all. New York Times/Ipsos, along with several sets of swing state polling taken after the verdict, show that the conviction of Donald Trump in a banana republic trial may already be baked into the election cycle mix. None of the numbers thus far are moving. That's disastrous for Joe Biden. Trump is still winning back the Sun Belt states of Georgia, Nevada, and Arizona - states that Biden won in 2020. And Trump is pulling ahead, albeit more modestly, in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Biden's calculus was that a Trump conviction would shore up his Rust Belt firewall, allowing him to eke out the November election. And that doesn't account for what may be the upset specials - New Hampshire and Virginia. Both states are showing the race in a virtual dead heat. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin told Fox' Martha MacCallum this week that Virginia was definitely back in play.
Instead of reaping the benefits of what the left guessed would be the death knell of the Trump campaign, the verdict has supercharged intensity for the former President. Many people who were once never Trump are now, at a minimum Trump curious, if not committed supporters again. And people who were meh about Trump before the trial are mad at the way the system was weaponized against him. $300 million since the verdict in small and large money donations have flooded the Trump and RNC headquarters, which is a staggering sum for this time of year in the presidential cycle. And you'd have to think that the people who donated all that money, many of them first-timers, are not committed with their votes as well as with their money.
Biden-Harris is going to run the rest of the way on how bad Convicted Felon Donald Trump is. There is no Plan B. The House has just referred both Hunter Biden and James Biden, Joe's brother, to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution. The Wall Street Journal ran a devastating piece quantifying the cognitive decline of Joe Biden during this term in office, and how much it's manifesting itself on policy and personnel decisions. The ceasefire Joe Biden negotiated on Hamas and Israel's behalf, you'll be surprised to learn, was rejected by Hamas and Israel. Failures on the international stage are stacking up like cordwood.
The two big question marks hovering over the campaigns between now and mid-July are whether or not the Atlanta debate between Biden and Trump will actually take place on CNN. Conventional wisdom says yes, but don't count out the Biden camp using the conviction in New York to pull the rip cord. You can see the headlines now, right? Biden Refuses To Debate Convicted Felon Trump: Cites Dignity Of The Office Concerns.
Biden's surrogates have been all over media the last couple of days, but not in the way they intended. They figured they would be spiking the ball on the Merchan verdict. Instead, they're being forced to explain the Wall Street Journal piece as getting Biden all wrong, that behind closed doors, Biden has never been sharper or more cogent. Don't you think that if that were true, the President would demonstrate that in just one public setting? Instead, we keep getting stuff like this.
The second question goes back to Juan "Beria" Merchan on July 11. That's when the sentencing hearing takes place. It's four days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Again, conventional wisdom is that he wouldn't dare sentence Trump to prison. I'm telling you, there is no backup plan in place for these people. The sunk costs involved in seeking the conviction in the first place are quite high. If they pull back from the brink now, they will risk deflating every supporter they have on MSNBC and CNN. The fever swamp wants the video of Trump frog-marched out of court in shackles. They want that image so bad they can taste it. The temptation to give the base what they want is awfully high, with the added benefit of throwing the RNC convention into chaos, making the decision too enticing for Merchan to resist.
When I tell you the left has no backup plan, I really mean they have no good backup plan. Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson is trying to jam through legislation that would deny Secret Service protection to anyone that is a convicted felon. There's only person, pending the outcome of the Hunter Biden trial, who currently warrants Secret Service protection that also now is a convicted felon. Any guesses on whom might be most affected by this legislation?
And why on Earth would Thompson want to offer up a bill to strip Trump of security detail? Perhaps if you can't beat him fairly in an election, and you can't beat him unfairly using the judicial system against him, then the next best option is to leave him as vulnerable as possible and hope he becomes a crime statistic. That's their backup plan.
I'll leave you with the latest in-kind campaign donation to the Biden-Harris campaign by the New York Times. Here's an X post by Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton.
Delusional.
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) June 5, 2024
Is the @nytimes unaware that Biden & his Dem allies are prosecuting Trump in four baseless cases? pic.twitter.com/QMqvRoCG3Y
The Times is concerned that Trump is putting the rule of law on the ballot, and insinuating that the only one that will uphold that cornerstone of democracy is the one who is (looking at the giant IMAX screen again) suspending the rule of law on immigration, student loan debt, and coordinating with state courts to prosecute their political opponents.
The hypocrisy flows like a waterfall. Nevertheless, stay thirsty, my friends. There will be much, much more to come.
