Are Democrats in Freakout Mode Over Nov. Presidential Election?

[Webster]

(The Guardian) Biden enlists January 6 police officers to campaign in swing states as reports of Democratic 'freakout' over poor polling emerge
With less than six months to go until the 5 November presidential election, Politico has published yet another report about Democrats being nervous about Joe Biden’s chance for re-election against Donald Trump. That the president is unpopular, and has been for year, is practically old news, but his allies have more recently been rattled by successive waves of polls showing him trailing Trump in most of the swing states he will need to win. Citing anonymous sources, Politico reports that some Democrats are in “freakout” mode over Biden’s chances, with the president facing persistent public concerns about his handling of issues as varied as inflation, immigration, and the relative unpopularity of his running mate Kamala Harris.

The Biden campaign has plenty of cards up its sleeve, including reminding voters of the violence at the Capitol on January 6, and Trump’s role in instigating it. Three police officers who fought the insurrectionists will soon be hitting the road to campaign for Biden in battleground states, and warn voters that Trump would pose a threat to the country’s democracy, if he returned to the White House.

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Democrats' anxiety over Biden's chances rises after Trump gains fundraising edge - report
The latest development rattling Democrats is the edge in fundraising that Donald Trump gained over Joe Biden last month, Politico reports.

The former president’s fundraising last month was $25m more than Biden, Politico reports, though the Democrat maintains his edge in cash on hand. The story is otherwise full of alarming quotes from nameless Democratic insiders warning that Biden’s in a far weaker position than he should be, especially considering the stakes of this election.

From one Democratic operative Politico describes as being in touch with the White House: This isn’t, “Oh my God, Mitt Romney might become president.” It’s “Oh my God, the democracy might end.”

And a Democratic adviser: The list of why we “could” win is so small I don’t even need to keep the list on my phone.

The response from Biden campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz: The work we do every day on the ground and on the airwaves in our battleground states — to talk about how President Biden is fighting for the middle class against the corporate greed that’s keeping prices high, and highlight Donald Trump’s anti-American campaign for revenge and retribution and abortion bans — is the work that will again secure us the White House.

 

[DrLeftover]

Democrats.... Republicans. Libertarians.

Name somebody that ISN'T "freaking out".

 

[Webster]

Name somebody that ISN'T "freaking out".

Dead people don’t vote: Study points to an ‘extremely rare’ fraud

SIEPR's Andrew Hall scoured 4.5 million voter records in one state and found only 14 possible cases of ballots cast on behalf of people who had died.

siepr.stanford.edu

Dead people perhaps since, contrary to popular opinion, they don't vote.

 

[Black Angel]

Nah.. I see this a good thing..

Historically Democrats have sucked monumentally at messaging and that is largely because they've been listening to the people who will probably be dead by the next 2 presidential elections instead of the people who will be forced to take care of them because of how they voted 20+ years ago.

So I truly salute their efforts to change this.

And I am surprised at how quickly things have changed up here politically speaking since we moved up here.. it is part of the irony in how fast paced everything is up here where it is so slow compared to how slow everything was downstate in what was and is still considered a fast paced city. People up here actually apologize for making you wait 10 minutes..

and when I respond that I am used to waiting a long time, such as the fact that it took us 2 hours to get out of Brooklyn with our second truck to drive here because we got stuck in evening rush hour traffic, or that I have waited 20 minutes for food, while on a long line at a food truck, they look at me like I am from another planet because it is just that unheard of.. lol

 

[NeoMetallix]

The Democrat party went from being the party of antiwar, free speech, and for the working man to authoritarian in just 20 years.

They are now as bad as Republicans in being warhawks, they are the root of censorship, and their economic policies benefit large corporations more than the working man.

Biden's record can't back up the propaganda he will be putting out. Unfortunately the American's have two poor choices and voters only vote based on how the few months leading to the election are going. Very short sided and fickle to the point that all that has to happen to swing an election is the price of gas going up or down in the last three months. Anything that happened 2-4 years ago? Completely forgotten.

 

[Webster]

If Biden's in freakout mode, he ain't showing it, folks...

(The Guardian) Biden savages Trump as 'convicted felon' in aftermath of conviction
Joe Biden went on the attack against Donald Trump last night, with a new and potentially potent weapon: his conviction on business fraud charges. At a campaign event in New York, the president described Trump as a “convicted felon”, and said, “This guy does not deserve to be president whether or not I’m running.” The remarks comes after months of polling that showed the president trailing his predecessor in surveys of the swing states that will determine the election. But all of those were conducted before a jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments ahead of the 2016 election, a historic conviction that Biden’s campaign is clearly hoping will make voters turn their backs on the ex-president.

Only a few polls have been released since the Thursday’s verdict, but they contain signs that Trump’s conviction has dented his support with independents, and the so-called “double haters” – people who like neither candidate. Both groups are seen as pivotal to determining the election, and we’ll see if the trend persists in the months of campaigning to come.

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Campaign in 'uncharted territory' after Trump conviction, Biden says
Speaking to donors in White Plains, New York, Joe Biden yesterday said this year’s presidential campaign would be like no other, thanks to Donald Trump’s felony conviction. “Folks – the campaign entered uncharted territory last week. For the first time in American history, a former president that is a convicted felon is now seeking the office of the presidency,” Biden said.

Not since 1892 has an incumbent president faced a challenge to a second term from a former president. However, until Trump, no American president, current or former, has ever been convicted of a crime.

Speaking to donors at the event hosted by HBO chief executive Richard Plepler, Biden reiterated his argument that Trump would harm America’s democracy, if re-elected.

“The threat Trump poses would be greater in a second term,” Biden said, describing his predecessor as “unhinged”. “Just listen to his rantings. He wants to, in his words, be a dictator in one day,” the president added.

 

[Webster]

The Democrat party went from being the party of antiwar, free speech, and for the working man to authoritarian in just 20 years.

And the Republican Party went in the other direction, absorbing all the bigots, racists, segregationists and misogynists in turn; go look up the Southern Strategy 'cause the GOP played that strategy perfectly.