President Biden IS the President….
A drop in by him brings national media and excitement….
(With a huge security foot print)
It also brings a guy with a +50% NEGATIVE approval ….
Jill Biden , a attractive, blonde First Lady, with a doctorate degree, brings a human touch to crowds that her husband does not have….(See below about Jill Biden going on Newsmax)
Jill Biden’s weekend included five flights, 11 events and three appearances with Democrats who all requested her help ahead of the midterm elections. There was also a spin class in there somewhere.
During one particularly busy 27-hour chunk of time, Dr. Biden, the first lady, appeared in Atlanta, where the voting rights activist Stacey Abrams is in an uphill race against Brian Kemp, the Republican governor. Then it was on to Florida, where she toured a breast cancer research facility and gave an interview to Newsmax, the conservative network. After that, she appeared with Representative Val B. Demings, who hopes to unseat Senator Marco Rubio, and Charlie Crist, a centrist Democrat who trails Ron DeSantis, the governor and conservative firebrand.
“It’s not going to be easy,” Dr. Biden, on the last leg of a 15-hour day, told a group of people at a second event to support Ms. Demings on Saturday. “But we know how to win because we’ve done it before.”
With President Biden’s job approval hovering at about 40 percent at a moment when Democrats are struggling to hold on to the House and Senate, Dr. Biden has become a lifeline for candidates trying to draw attention and money but not the baggage that an appearance with her husband would bring. According to a senior White House official, she is the most requested surrogate in the administration.
“She does not offend people in a way that a president can because she’s much less polarizing and political,” said Michael LaRosa, a communications strategist and her former press secretary. “It’s why she was sent all over rural Iowa and New Hampshire during the campaign and why she can go places now that the president can’t.”
“She does not offend people in a way that a president can because she’s much less polarizing and political,” said Michael LaRosa, a communications strategist and her former press secretary. “It’s why she was sent all over rural Iowa and New Hampshire during the campaign and why she can go places now that the president can’t.”…
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Polling shows that Americans have mixed feelings about her. A CNN survey this summer found that some 34 percent of Americans had a favorable opinion of Dr. Biden, compared with 29 percent who said their view was unfavorable. Almost as many people — 28 percent — had no opinion, and 9 percent said they had never heard of her.
That poll also found that she performed well with women and Black voters, and people from both groups turned out to see her as she went from event to event over the weekend….
Jill Biden will talk on Newsmax…
This weekend, first lady Dr. Jill Biden sat down with Newsmax host Nancy Brinker to discuss the Biden administration’s efforts to fight cancer – and the one-on-one interview will air on Newsmax Monday night at 9 p.m. Eastern time.
The pair met in Florida on Saturday for an upfront and personal interview, conducted by Brinker, host of Newsmax’s “Conversations with Nancy Brinker.”…
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