They should be…..
Midterms are coming in about a year…
Democrats do NOT want another 2010 like Midterm washout…
Biden IS dealing with bad press from bad images across the front pages from Afghanistan and now the border…..
Democrats are worried that Joe Biden’s presidency is at an inflection point where his administration risks being defined by a series of negative and disturbing images from Afghanistan and the border.
A picture is worth a thousand words, and the Biden White House wants its image to be one of professionals restoring order, empathy and compassion after what Democrats say was the chaos, dysfunction and cold-heartedness of the Trump years.
The early months of Biden’s first year in office mostly went according to script, but things have started to come off the rails as the stark footage from the border and Afghanistan, two consistently difficult issues for the president, crystalize in the public view….
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“Political stories are often told through images, and the images have been really strong and they almost supersede what’s in the column space below them,” said Democratic strategist Joel Payne.
Payne says the White House needs to ensure it contextualizes the photos and reacts quickly.
“It’s very important to balance out those images with context,” he said. “It’s always better to preempt the story, not be in reaction mode.”
On the issue of immigration in particular, the president finds himself receiving strong backlash from liberals in his party who now doubt his empathy for migrants.
And with both the border and Afghanistan, the bad pictures are reflective of wider policies that Biden must either defend or alter….
Democrats would be well advised to take along, hard look at this whole issue of immigration.
The evidence certainly doesn’t support ,as a straight political matter, a more “liberal” immigration policy.Figures that I am seeing show that Hispanic voters ,part males, are voting increasingly Republican.
Agreed…..
‘Open Borders’ is actually a losing political position for a Democratic President….
Those who go thru the system legally are NOT happy with those who don’t…
The pictures of the Border cop on a horse makes things tougher for Biden….
“..Donald Trump will be the Republican candidate for President in 2024.The hope and expectation that he would fade in visibility and influence have been delusional.He enjoys mammoth leads in the polls ;he is building a massive campaign warchesr; and at this moment the Democratic looks vulnerable.Barring health problems, he is running.Trump and his Re allies are actively preparing to ensure his victory by whatever means necessary.“
Robert Kagan
Washington Post columnist
For the record?
I do NOT DJT will be the nominee
If i am wrong?
I believe he will lose again….
I’m somebody here will remember my view…
Biden maybe in polling lousy now
But i do NOT think Americans want ‘loser’ Trump back fir a second go-round….
And if you ate wrong, you will tell us that everyone agreed with your view at the time.
If the matter was to be decided today?Trump would win the Republican nomination with very little opposition.
Things could happen ;however, it’s difficult presently to see Trump not being the nominee if he wants it.
Despite his resounding loss in the popular vote, he was within in a few hundred. thousand votes in several states and he would have won the Electoral College.
If for whatever reason Trump isn’t a candidate?Then ,whomever wins the nomination must either have his blessing or at least his acquiescence.
Jack, it was much, much closer than that in 2020.
Trump would have needed fewer than 77,000 votes combined in the closest four states to carry the College 275-263.
He would have needed to surmount margins of less than 1% (less than 43,000 votes together) in the three closest states (37 EV total) to deadlock the College 269-269.
D margin|% margin|EV| state
10,457 0.31% 11 Arizona
11,779 0.24% 16 Georgia
20,682 0.63% 10 Wisconsin
33,596 2.39% 6 Nevada
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/data.php?year=2020&datatype=national&def=1&f=0&off=0&elect=0
Nope Z…….
Unlike some here
I’ll admit i was wrong
And who are you accusing of not admitting when they are wrong? You were obnoxiously and continuously adamant in both 2015 and 2016 that Trump couldn’t win, and then you accused us of believing that as much as you did.
Everyone else here appears to admit when they are wrong,
The GOP infrastructure won’t even the same in 2024 as it was in 2020. They have subsequently strengthened their ability to cheat to win – especially if Trump is the nominee (which I expect).