Democrats and their media allies are ecstatic about a new Fox News poll. This is the first time since October that President Joe Biden has outperformed former President Donald Trump, and it comes on the heels of recent reports – this time by Axios – of a breakdown within the Democratic Party.
But is there really any reason to celebrate? Not really.
Trump is currently among the most motivated voters to turn out in November, which is crucial and in some ways surprising.
When you’re feeling down and your team is starting to get nervous (and backstabbing), any good news is welcome news — it’s always nice to have a decent news cycle on a slow day — but it’s far too early to take any real reassurance, either about the data actually behind the polls or about the legitimacy of the Biden campaign’s strategy.
First, Trump stands up In battleground states, An Ipsos poll released Thursday showed Trump leading in first, second and fourth place. All 7: Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania, North Carolina. By comparison, in 2020, Biden won every state except North Carolina.
Trump is falling in the RealClearPolitics average Just 2.3 Minnesota got points. that Overall, Minnesota last voted Republican for President Richard Nixon in 1972. The State of 10,000 Lakes was the only state to vote against President Ronald Reagan’s reelection in 1984.
Second, Trump is currently among the most motivated voters to vote in November. This is crucial, and somewhat surprising given his historic ability to drive Democrats to the polls, but it’s true. Despite the Democratic rhetoric, voters in battleground states are far more concerned about inflation, followed by immigration, where Biden should be most concerned.
(Even though the president announced the pardons on Tuesday, the White House folks somehow missed the memo. Or maybe they’re so desperate to lure Hispanic men back into the fold that they’re willing to trade off broader losses for men married to illegal immigrants.)
And finally, there’s the Biden campaign’s “convicted felon” message. Three weeks after Trump was convicted in a Manhattan courthouse and a little longer after the White House launched an intensive effort to use the conviction to sway votes, Democrats are betting big on this race out of necessity.
What’s going on? Three weeks of incubation and near-constant corporate reporting might provide the answer. Down 3 points nationally in polls of registered voters. The news cycle moves fast, and there’s little about the free world’s president and the most famous man in it that isn’t already priced in. If this is the apex, strategically anxious Democrats shouldn’t rest easy just yet.
Axios: Democratic Party Leader: Biden’s strategy to lose
Daily Caller: Frank Luntz impresses Trump with ‘close race’ in ‘reliably’ Democratic state after conviction
Byron York: Could Biden hold the election around January 6th?
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The fire rises: Blaze Original: Inside one Democrat’s 20-year fight to save the world from Anthony Fauci – Part 1: 2001-2014.
Before 2020, most of us knew very little about Dr. Anthony Fauci. Reports and profiles began appearing in media outlets across the country, telling us that the new head of the national response was a brilliant AIDS doctor and an expert on infectious diseases and epidemics. He would know what to do. It would be years before the public woke up to his lies and deception.
But some people knew Dr. Fauci before his big debut, including Dr. Richard Ebright, a Biden supporter who has been a fierce critic of the Bush administration’s bioweapons program and has tried for decades to warn the world about Dr. Fauci’s arrogance and the dangers of his research. As Blaze News’ Leon Wolf reports:
For years, Ebright and Fauci waged a quiet battle in print, visible only to members of the small community of serious scientists, mostly in chemistry and biology. The same refrain was repeated over and over: Ebright warned the public that the research threatened their safety; Fauci insisted that the public was at risk. Safer.
As we now know, Dr. Ebright was almost certainly right, but it took four years for the nation to slowly come around to that realization, thanks to the concerted efforts of Dr. Fauci and his team.
But to understand where we are, we first need to understand how we got here.
