LOS ANGELES.–President Joe Biden, 81, and 77-year-old former President Donald Trump are headed for a smack-down in November, a rematch to their 2020 contest, with many exceptions, since the Democrat-controlled U.S. press wants to ignore Biden’s track records as he readies himself for the March 7 State-of-the-Union Speech. Democrats and the press have demonized Trump as a threat to Democracy and of tainted character, hoping they can roll him like they did in 2020. Trump was painted as a racist-white supremacist in 2020, blaming him for botching the once life-threatening Covid crisis sweeping America. But since the Covid crisis ended, voters have come back to the their senses, no long buffaloed by the Democrat Party and press, not realizing that Biden’s biggest obstacle to reelection in2024 is his track record. Over three years of Biden has hit the country with a wrecking ball.
When he reads his teleprompter Thursday night at the State-of-the-Union Speech, Biden has some big hurdles to overcome as he touts his economic success and tries to avoid his foreign policy failures, especially his unending war in Ukraine against the Kremlin, costing the U.S. Treasury nearly $200 billion and climbing daily. Biden said he’s in it for the long-haul, insisting falsely that Putin wants to take over Europe as his prime justification for the costly proxy war that has wrecked U.S.-Russian relations, ending decades of diplomacy, détente and arms control, with the U.S. and Russia now mortal enemies. Biden says, if reelected, he’ll keep the Ukraine War going until he defeats the Russian Federation. No military expert believes that Biden or Ukraine 46-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky can defeat the Kremlin, eventually losing the wasteful conflict.
Biden goes into the State-of-the-Union with Democrats denouncing Trump as a hardened criminal, already convicting him in the Democrat-controlled media as guilty of his 91-felonies. Recent polls indicate that more Americans think the charges against Trump are not real at all but a product of a zealous Democrat criminal justice system, using the powers of the state to prevent him from running for president. Biden walks into the State-of-the-Union selling himself as an economic success, needing to avoid discussing foreign policy where in just three short years Biden has destroyed U.S.-Russian and U.S.-Chinese relations, making mortal enemies of the world’s biggest nuclear superpowers. Biden drove Russian and China into an economic, military and strategic alliance, all because he joined Ukraine’s war against the Kremlin. Biden plans to divert attention away from runaway inflation and foreign policy.
Trump finds himself battling former U.N. Amb. Nikki Haley on Super Tuesday, while Biden is a fill-in-the-blank choice for Democrats. Haley has little chance of winning even one of the 16 states voting today, largely because she’s run an insurgent campaign, telling voters that Trump and Biden are too old. Polls show that most voters actually don’t think that Trump is too old, despite only four years between them. Yet Democrats and the press like to talk about Trump’s occasional faux pas on the campaign trail. Unlike Biden who spends almost no time on the campaign trail, Trump spends hours delivering the most entertaining and energetic campaign rallies, sometimes keeping audience mesmerized for hours. Biden’s campaign finds his spontaneous campaigning too much a risk, using snippets-and-sound bites to hide Biden’s age-related cognitive decline.
Biden gets his shot as president selling voters at the State-of-the-Union why to give the 81-year-old four more years. Polls show that Democrats, Republicans and independents don’t think Biden is fit for four more years, let alone his current job. Biden spoke on “DeDe in the Morning” Radio show, the perfect place for him to demonize Trump against Blacks. “If we lose this election, you’re going to be back with Donald Trump,” Biden told DeDe. “The way he talks about, the way he acted, the way he has dealt with the African American community. I think, has been shameful,” Biden said pandering to Blacks. Biden feels comfortable preaching to a Black audience where, for the most part, Trump is universally despised. But Biden sounds incoherent slamming Trump, reflecting the fact that he campaigns with his memory issues from age-related cognitive decline.
When the dust settles tonight, Biden and Trump will be left standing, with Haley having to make a decision to call it quits. She has no mathematical path to the nomination, but, more importantly, has done very poorly with Republican voters against Trump. “We can do better than two 80-year-old candidates for president,” Haley said at a rally in Houston. But Haley hasn’t made her case against Trump or Biden, actually supporting Biden’s economic and foreign policy agenda. Haley backs Biden’s reckless proxy war in Ukraine against the Kremlin, all but killing U.S.-Russian relations for the foreseeable future. Haley sounds more like Biden’s running mate than a GOP candidate. She’s resorted to cheap shots only about age because she has no economic or foreign policy platform. When the primaries are over, voters are treated to very different rematch than 2020.
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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.
