Staff Reports
Looks like the Democrats are starting to sweat over Joe Biden’s upcoming 2024 campaign. While they scramble, it seems they’re focusing on all the wrong issues, and it’s looking like a recipe for disaster that could very well cost them the White House. Biden’s grand plan? Obsessing over January 6, political violence, democracy, and, of course, Donald Trump’s character. Meanwhile, the real pressing issues – the economy and immigration – are mysteriously missing from their talking points. Shocking, right?
Let’s clear this up: Trump consistently outshines Biden on the big issues that voters actually care about. Poll after poll shows Trump leading Biden by double digits on the economy and immigration. Yet Biden’s team seems hell-bent on making January 6 the focal point of their campaign. Biden’s top aide and chief bottle washer, Mike Donilon, utterly convinced that January 6 is the new 9/11, thinks this is how they’ll take home the trophy. Just to put it in perspective, a New York Times/Siena College survey found that a mere 5% of respondents primarily associate Trump’s presidency with January 6. Looks like Donilon’s holding onto a losing ticket.
Democrats are worried Biden campaign is focusing on the wrong things https://t.co/NHTnWwXkCH
— Trump2024_no_matter_what (@TexasTrump2024) June 19, 2024
Now, despite new polling showing that voters are hyper-focused on inflation and the economy, Biden’s camp is tone-deaf to this reality. This level of detachment would be amusing if it weren’t so tragic. Democrats seem to have some romantic notion that democracy and political violence are the be-all and end-all for voters. Biden’s advisers are patting themselves on the back with their strategy, citing democracy as a top issue in previous elections. Newsflash: past success doesn’t guarantee future results, especially when you’re skirting the real issues hitting Americans where it hurts.
A Democratic strategist even went so far as to call the campaign’s situation “dire.” When the insiders start talking like that, you know the wheels are coming off. Biden loyalists, still hungover from their 2020 win, think they can ride the same high horse for the upcoming election. Focusing on the nation’s “soul” in 2020 and ignoring the economy worked out for them then, but banking on the same strategy while the country is knee-deep in inflation appears to be a tragic misjudgment.
According to a recent NPR/PBS News/Marist poll, preserving democracy is listed as a concern, but it’s only the second biggest issue. Inflation tops the list, with immigration not far behind. These concerns speak volumes about what American voters have been grappling with every day. But Biden’s team is more interested in battling ghosts from January 6 than addressing the kitchen table issues. For all the hoopla around Trump’s legal woes, Republicans are hoping it will galvanize voters, turning righteous indignation into a decisive rejection of the Democratic establishment.
The Democrats might want to wake up and smell the inflation before their detachment leads to a November to remember, and not in the way they’re hoping. January 6 fixation or not, if Biden’s team doesn’t pivot to the critical issues voters actually care about, they might find themselves with a one-way ticket out of the Oval Office.
