Biden Is Losing Ground Because He's Not Answering The Tough Questions

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  1. flyboy56

    flyboy56 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Is liberal MSM no longer going to give Biden a pass? This article is a brutal critique of Biden's job approval rate among other things as well. He needs his agenda to pass if he wants to see a second term either for himself or another Democrat.

    https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/22/opinions/joe-biden-is-losing-ground-jennings/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/cnn_topstories+(RSS:+CNN+-+Top+Stories)

    While I watched President Joe Biden's CNN town hall Thursday night, I kept asking myself: What is the point of this? Who is the audience?

    Biden is stuck right now with two political problems: trying to appease disparate factions of his party as he attempts to pass his agenda and his own flagging poll numbers.

    If the point of this was to create a groundswell of support so overwhelming that senators from West Virginia and Arizona must succumb to it, that didn't happen.

    More likely, his advisers thought this event would prop up his fading poll numbers. Simply put, they are brutal. Biden's aggregate job approval according to CNN's Poll of Polls is 50% disapprove versus 44% who approve. And inside the polls, he is experiencing major dips on a range of issues and personal characteristics, including whether people find him honest, mentally sharp and running an administration that is competent.

    Did he solve any of those problems Thursday night? No. He rambled a lot. He did that weird lean and whisper thing a few times. He meandered and gave inefficient, long-winded answers to most of the audience questions (some of which were pointed and deserved more direct answers).
     
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    Agreed. Not answering questions makes him look old and frail and not up to the job.

    The question is, where to from here??
     
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    Biden's diving because he is completely incompetent. The 2022 election could be a real mess for Democrats:

    Current betting odds:

    Senate GOP +14
    House GOP +44

    https://electionbettingodds.com/House2022.html

     
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    Of course he is. But he's got a lot more political problems than just two. Not to mention his mental ability is being questioned by over half of the country. And after his performance at that "town hall" I expect that number to increase.
     
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    Perhaps...but it would be wise to have an ARMY of independent poll watchers distributed amongst the states come 2022....just sayin'.
     
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    So in other words nothing's changed other than the mainstream media covering up slightly less for him.
     
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    I believe the liberal MSM is trying to send Biden a wake up notice. What is important to take notice of is this warning is starting to appear in liberal MSM.
     
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    after 4 years of Trump, people are glad not to hear from our President as much
     
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    ..... Trump Trump Trump Trump

    Do you ever address the topic or you just instantly default to Trump?
     
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    I believe Republicans want to hear more from Biden and Democrats want to hear less. From the article;

    "But did any viewer -- other than the most partisan Democrat -- walk away from that town hall tonight thinking: "Man alive! this guy is on top of his game!"

    To borrow a phrase: "Come on, man!"
     
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    Why didn't the liberal media alert the Biden Administration about the crisis at the border? Why didn't the liberal media alert the Biden Administration about the dangers of too many onerous pandemic rules? Why did the liberal media alert the Biden Administration about the pullout in Afghanistan? Why did the liberal media alert the Biden Administration about recent failures and about the precipitous loss of American confidence in the Biden Administration?...I'd venture to guess that's because the media are whores to political elites.:roll: See, political elites don't see the border crisis as a problem and political elites don't see the dangers of too many onerous pandemic rules as a problem...Political elites do care about the way the pullout from Afghanistan was handled and political elites do care that the polling of the Biden Administration has precipitously plummeted.
     
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    I addressed the topic, don't take it personally
     
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    If you were watching liberal media's coverage of the pullout in Afghanistan and the Haitian refugees gathering at the border and then being picked up and flown back to Haiti you would know they've been on him about many of the issues you listed that are confronting Biden's administration.
     
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    I just think, glad it's not Trump... wish was Bernie
     
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    Well here's a message for you!
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    also Trump, Criticism of him is not free speech on his new site
     
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    Anybody who thought this man had the answer to any problem, and voted accordingly, is a fool.

     
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    The crisis at the border, for example has been going on for 9 months (as long as Biden has been president) and the media just recently joined the fray about the border problems. Why didn't the media join in on the protest from the jump? Answer: cause the media are whores to pollical elites and political elites have just recently held an opinion on the border crisis.
     
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    All he can do is work behind the scenes to try to get a strong 2024 nominee to replace him. Too late for Biden to turn his ship around. Trump won on "I'm not Hillary" and Biden won on "I'm not Trump". Hopefully in 2024 we have a candidate from one of the parties or the other who has a strong policy-oriented campaign and is not just another cult of personality candidate. Not holding my breath though.
     
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    What matters is they are on it now.
     
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    Sanders is a traitor to all Independents who vote for the candidate and not the party. Sanders jumps to the Democratic Party when he runs for president because he doesn't want to take votes away from Democratic candidates.
     
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    It will be a real massacre for the GOP.... in a year.
     
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    the reality it, if dems or repubs split into two parties, they both lose, as they do take votes away

    that is the issue Republicans have right now too, the minority of the party is wagging the dog
     
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    And the SAME Site has the DEM Party +5 to Keep the White House in 2024.

    https://electionbettingodds.com/

    Great to hear that you have 100% Faith in those Numbers not changing....
     
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    Still struggling with what free speech is huh.
     
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