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Bye-bye Bidenomics

&NewLine;<p>President Biden launched his 2024 presidential campaign on the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Bidenomics” brand&period;&nbsp&semi; The idea was to overcome the American people’s opinion that things were not so good with the economy by propounding a rose-colored glasses fictional version&period;&nbsp&semi; Biden even lies to make his point&period;&nbsp&semi; He recently said that most folks like his economic program when polls show the opposite&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As soon as the White House staked its claim on Bidenomics&comma; the Democrat chorus and their media megaphones starting repeating their litany of good economic news&period;&nbsp&semi; It was all spin&comma; however – and Biden has proven Lincoln’s adage that you cannot fool all the people all the time&period;&nbsp&semi; According to polls&comma; the Bidenomics theme is not even fooling half the people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In terms of the economy&comma; the more Biden tried to sell the glories of Bidenomics&comma; the more the folks back home rejected it&period;&nbsp&semi; The most recent polls tell that story&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>MSNBC’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Morning Joe” reported on the Marquette Law School poll that show Trump has a 52 to 28 percent lead over Biden in HANDLING THE ECONOMY&period;&nbsp&semi; That is a new record low for Biden&period;&nbsp&semi; Biden has basedhis reputation on being a &nbsp&semi;President who has created a lot of jobs – good union jobs&comma; as he would claim&period;&nbsp&semi; Yet&period; The public gives the job-creating credit to Trump by 40 to 30 percent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Biden has an advantage over Trump in only three areas &&num;8212&semi; healthcare &lpar;39 to 37&rpar;&comma; abortion &lpar;43 to 34&rpar; and climate change &lpar;44 to 24&rpar;&period;&nbsp&semi; Unfortunately for Biden&comma; these are not the top issues driving voters&period; The economic issues are number one&comma; the border is number two and crime is number three – and Trump has a commanding lead on all those issues&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Bidenomics brand has become so toxic that even the leftwing media personalities are conceding that focusing on economics was a big mistake&period;&nbsp&semi; That was the recent opinion of MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough – who not long ago was pumping his hot air into the Bidenomics balloon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In a recent speech&comma; Biden has tried to replace Bidenomics with saving democracy as the central theme of the campaign&period;&nbsp&semi; That is nothing more than going back to the Democrats’ mantra from November 8&comma; 2016&comma; when Trump was elected President of the United States – and that political narrative went nuclear on January 6&comma; 2021&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>That issue has not shown itself to be a slam-dunk winner for Biden&comma; but it may be all they have&period;&nbsp&semi; It may just be that the only thing going in Biden’s and the Democrat’s favor is Trump&comma; himself&period;&nbsp&semi; And even there&comma; the MSNBC poll showed Biden with a statistically insignificant lead of 51 to 49 percent over Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Interestingly&comma; in reporting on the SAME poll&comma; CNN showed Trump leading by 51 to 48 percent&period;&nbsp&semi; The difference was in the details&period;&nbsp&semi; MSNBC gave the number for &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;likely voters” and CNN used the number for &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;registered voters&period;”&nbsp&semi; Since both sets of numbers were well within the margin of error&comma; it is a distinction without a difference&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The point is&comma; Biden is not beating Trump with the electorate&period;&nbsp&semi; What is relevant is that despite Biden’s efforts to find a winning campaign theme &&num;8212&semi; and Trump’s having more baggage than Samsonite – the best Biden can do is a statistical tie&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Whatever the future holds&comma; we can at least lay to rest the remains of Bidenomics&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The only good news for Biden these days is that there is still 13 more months until Election Day 2024&period;&nbsp&semi; Oh my God&excl;&nbsp&semi; That means 13 more months of obsessive hysteria and hyperbole permeating the political atmosphere like a discharge from a local sewer treatment plant – not to mention a few more senior moments and presidential pratfalls&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>So there &OpenCurlyQuote;tis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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