It didn’t work. Joe Biden’s friendly 22-minute interview with George Stephanopolous did little to nothing to quell the calls from Democrats that Biden should drop out of the race for U.S. President. Of course, this should come as no surprise. For anyone who was willing to see it, it has been quite obvious that Joe Biden has been in a frail and declining mental and physical state for years now. This was clear well prior to the 2020 election.
The
Trump campaign ran an ad in August of 2020 that highlighted Biden’s mental
decline. No doubt this is one of the reasons why the drive-by media refused to
cover Biden’s numerous health issues. They sacrificed the truth because none of
them wanted to be seen as aiding Trump, or even giving any credibility to his
campaign. In other words, they lied about Biden simply because they hated Trump.
And
never forget, this is not merely about Donald Trump. Trump was once a media
darling. They now hate him because he is a big obstacle—not the only obstacle—to
the perverse leftist agenda. Now that Joe Biden has also become an obstacle to
the left’s political goals—simply because many Democrats now believe he can’t
beat Trump—he, like Trump, now draws their ire.
Though
they want him gone, the left can’t seem to stop praising Biden over his “accomplishments”
as U.S. President. One of the first big voices to call for Biden to leave the
Presidential race was The New York Times editorial board. On June 28,
just hours after the Trump-Biden debate ended, they declared,
Mr. Biden has been an admirable
president. Under his leadership, the
nation has prospered and begun to address a
range of long-term challenges, and the wounds ripped open by Mr. Trump have
begun to heal.
Just days after his disastrous debate, David
Strom at HotAir revealed that a common refrain from Democrats and their
media apologists was in the works: “The real line I keep seeing coming from
Democrats big and small is ‘Joe Biden is the most accomplished president in my
lifetime,’ or some minor variation of that.”
While being the third Democrat congressman to call for Biden
to exit the race for President, Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton boldly
concluded that, “I think President Biden has done an amazing job for America.
He's been a great president. And he'll go down in history as a great president.”
In an X post in
support of Joe Biden, Democrat Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee declared “President
Biden has done a great job…” Axios recently
reported that “Many Democrats believe Biden has been an excellent
president.” Most
recently, Democrat Senator John Fetterman told CNN, “Joe Biden has been a
great president ... and I'm not going to chuck him for a rough debate.”
Of course, as was the case with his obvious declining
health, this is all just more propagandic spin from the democrats and their
media stooges. On Biden, Republican Senator Tom Cotton nailed it when he
announced, “But even if he were 20 years younger and sprightly and
energetic, he’d still be a failed, weak president because his ideas are
failures.”
Likewise, on Howard Kurtz Fox News show MediaBuzz, Mollie
Hemingway said,
It’s not that people don’t think that Joe Biden is
old. They do. They have repeatedly said that for years. But the reason why Joe
Biden has favorability in the thirties—prior to the debate—is because of his
policies. They don’t like inflation. They don’t like what he’s doing with
foreign policy. They don’t like domestic policy. And you have not heard the
media talking about the actual reason why Americans don’t like Joe Biden.
Instead, they’re just doing all this about his health.
Yes, Joe Biden is physically and mentally unfit for the
office of U.S. President, but even if that were not the case—and the drive-by
media has spent years pretending it wasn’t—his, and his party’s, policies are
not popular with the American electorate. Joe Biden’s economic policies are
unpopular, his immigration policies are unpopular, his foreign policy is
unpopular, his crime and policing policies are unpopular, and so on.
Very
recent polling (post debate) finds that registered voters approve of Donald
Trump’s job performance as President over Joe Biden’s job performance as
President, 51% to 41%. Additionally, the same poll found voters trust Trump
over Biden on handling the economy, 54% to 40%. Likewise, voters trust Trump
over Biden on immigration, 53% to 40%, and on national security, 52% to 42%.
In other words, Democrats are in serious danger in the
upcoming election not merely because of Joe Biden’s body and brain, but because
of how democrats, led by Joe Biden, have governed over the past
three-and-a-half years.
(See this column at American Thinker.)
Copyright 2024, Trevor Grant Thomas
At the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason.
www.trevorgrantthomas.com
Trevor is the author of the The Miracle
and Magnificence of America
trevorgrantthomas@gmail.com
