Biden’s allies are telling opponents to “get down” and adjust

Reality-stricken Democrats pushed their colleagues to “get low” and fake it until they make it amid the presidential poll numbers.

Whether or not President Joe Biden’s writing is on the wall remains to be seen, but in the meantime, leftist leaders called for a unified gaslight to drag their candidate back to the finish line next November.

Speaking with The Hill, prominent party figures addressed the favorable poverty, primary challenges and difficulty in the polls as proof that Democrats must unite to translate the “whining” into winning.

Having experienced this himself, the former chairman of the Democratic caucus of the House and dismissed the representative of New York Joe Crowley, who was already out of power. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, said: “We need to lower the whining and the whining and all the whining.”

“There’s just too much of that. I think that gets into the psyche of the voters as well. That has to stop and I think at this point, you’re going to start seeing Biden’s numbers improve, certainly among Democrats, but I think at the voter level they will start to improve,” he added.

Similarly, Steve Elmendorf, deputy campaign manager for then-Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, acknowledged the problems but tried to ignore them.

“I’m not like, oh, everything they’re doing is great there. Obviously, they have to constantly refine the message and figure out what works and there are challenges with various groups of voters and they have to figure them out. But I don’t think it’s helpful as a party for people to publicly complain about,” he told The Hill.

Elmendorf noted, “He’s running for re-election, people need to understand that, and so as a party, everybody should figure out how we can get him re-elected. Like, that’s pretty simple. I’m in the Jim Messina, David Plouffe school, people need to stop whining and focus on how to win.”

Messina, former President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign manager, had pointed out to X: “A year’s worth of polling is as good at predicting election results as a magic eight ball would be.”

In addition to poor polls showing Biden losing battleground states in November 2024, Democratic strategist David Axelrod, who had to withdraw over comments that appeared to suggest Biden would drop out, lament recently: “I think he has a 50-50 shot here, but no better. than that, maybe a little worse.”

“He thinks he can cheat nature here, and it’s really risky,” he continued, reflecting on the 2016 showdown between then-businessman Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “They have a real problem if they’re counting on Trump to beat them. I remember Hillary doing that too.”

Axelrod says Biden has 50-50 chance at best IF he doesn’t avoid Hillary’s mistake in 2016 https://t.co/48XugUGpCL road @BIZPACRevision

— Based on BPR (@DumpstrFireNews) November 20, 2023

Adding to the narrative of wanting a favorable outcome, former South Dakota Senator and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle expressed, “You have to be concerned, but you also have to take it with the understanding that a year in politics, especially in an election, is a lifetime. Things change dramatically during that time. We don’t know what the next 12 months will bring. Is it worrying? Of course, but there is plenty of time for circumstances to change “.

Speaking directly to the negativity expressed, he added: “Obviously, they’re right. Despite the debate we’ve had for several months now about age and choices, I think we have to recognize that it’s absolutely critical that we come together and be the as cohesive as possible over the next 12 months. And I know it’s not easy. But it’s essential if we’re going to be successful.”

“The only way to guarantee that we will not fail is if we stay as united and as aggressive as possible. And that seems to me to be the simple truth that the sooner we all recognize and acknowledge, the better,” said the former senator.

Above, Holland & Knight Senior Policy Advisor Yasmin Nelson, a former senior policy advisor to then-California Sen. Kamala Harris, told The Hill, “Biden-Harris is the ticket, and it’s not the best it’s in Democrats’ interest to entertain nothing more than that. The campaign has a year to show voters the difference they’ve made and significant legislative success during the first term amid extreme odds. They need to remind voters of this struggle daily and build the brand around this success.”

Along with an independent career of environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the main challenges of the author Marianne Williamson and recently all in Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips, as well as the imminent possibility of a third-party bid from outgoing West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D), Biden has his own record of failure playing on the world stage and the portfolio of northern Americans to contend with.

Staff writer

A native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College, where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and seeker of truth, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and dog, and when he’s not researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel ·the.

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