LOS ANGELES.–Democrats are starting to panic after Super Tuesday realizing they face an energized 77-year-old President Donald Trump with polls showing that 81-year-old President Biden lags 5% behind Trump in battleground states where the race will be won or lost. As Biden prepares for a last ditch State-of-the-Union Speech March 7, Democrats face a real dilemma wanting Biden to disprove questions about his fitness for a second term, but, more importantly, touting his accomplishments over the last three years. Biden’s fully prepared to denounce Trump as the presumptive GOP nominee warning the country, as he’s not for months, that Trump is a threat to U.S. democracy. Biden expects to target Blacks in particular in his speech, reprising his 2020 strategy that Trump is a racist and white supremacist. Biden plans to throw as much red meat as possible to a joint session of Congress.
Biden’s main problem ginning up his accomplishments are the proof of what most voters live with in their daily lives.
Talking about jobs creation and a strong stock market, means little to ordinary citizens watching basic commodities, food, energy and rent nearly double in the last three years of heavy inflationary pressure brought about by Biden’s economic policies. Biden will tell the State-of-the-Union that the economy is strong under his leadership but ordinary citizens know differently, dealing daily with high gas and food prices. “If you’re Donald Trump and his team, you go, ‘Wow, I’ll take this any day of the week,’” said Democrat strategist Steve Jarding, commenting about Trump’s improving political message compared to Biden’s faltering campaign. Biden’s Democrat strategists fear that the more exposure, the more chance Biden will mess up with the public.
Biden supporters, like Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), said the Supreme Court postponing its decisions about Trump’s possible immunity to prosecution is “outrageous.” “The president is going to get out on the stump and he’s going to have an opportunity to show he’s got the energy as well as the intellect and the acuity to do the job,” Welch said, in another wish fulfilling prophecy. Biden doesn’t have the energy or the intellect to get much done at all, let alone gaslight voters into believing he’s miraculously changed since Trump because the presumptive GOP nominee. Welch knows that more Biden exposes himself to the public, the more he’s prone to the kind of gaffes that’s left him behind the Eight Ball. Biden passed on doing a pre-Super Bowl interview with CBS News precisely because his handlers don’t want him to make any mistakes to a big audience.
Democrats making public statements against the Supreme Court do so at their peril of the court ruling favorably for Trump on his immunity case no slated for oral arguments April 25. “That’s outrageous. There’s no excuse for that,” Welch said, referring to the Supreme Court’s decision to take up the immunity case in late April. “The decision that I think is the most glaring, egregious and wrong is the Supreme Court delay on the special counsel trail” over Trump’s alleged attempts to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power Jan. 6, 2021. Welch makes it sound like the Supreme Court is to blame for following procedural steps to deal Constitutional issues over prosecuting the president. Supreme Court justices hear the criticisms like everyone else but stay away from the partisan debate.
Biden’s biggest problem heading into the 2024 election is himself, not the same person that ran against Trump four years ago. Democrats think suddenly Biden can reinvent himself on the campaign trail, or try, like the State-of-the-Union, to energize his base. Anyone listening to Biden in the past months know he a shell of his former self. Trump will relentlessly expose Biden’s cognitive weaknesses and physical decline. All voters really need to look at is how they’re doing in Biden’s economy. Biden will do anything to avoid any discussion of foreign policy where it’s obvious that he’s made enemies of Russia and China, driving the two nuclear-armed superpowers into an economic, military and strategic alliance. Biden’s foreign policy has been an unmitigated disaster. Turning Russia into a mortal enemy has extinguished any attempts and global cooperation and arms control.
Showing the extent of Democrat denial heading into the matchup between Trump and Biden, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Il.) tried to blame the Democrat-controlled media, not recognizing they’ve done everything possible to hide Biden’s cognitive challenges. Durbin said the race “is far from over” despite “a lot of people in the press are trying to announce it’s over,” despite the obvious Democrat bias in the press. “I think we have a good candidate and a good story to tell,” said Democrat strategist Cornell Belcher. Belcher knows that Biden has problems delivering the message but, more importantly, when he tries it reminds voters about his cognitive impairments. “We have a good story, a record of accomplishment and time to deliver it,” Belcher said, the exact opposite of reality. Biden delivered runaway inflation, open borders and a nation now embroiled in perpetual war.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
