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The Campaign Woes of President Biden
The forecast is headwinds upon headwinds this election season for the incumbent Democrat.
“Behind the Curtain: Trump’s exponential power surge,” explained Jim VandeHel and Mike Allen for Axios on Thursday.
“The once-mighty Reagan-Bush GOP establishment, committed to a muscular foreign policy and unfettered trade, has given way to a Trump Republicanism that’s skeptical of large companies and institutions, hawkish on trade and modest in foreign policy,” they wrote in a surprisingly positive piece about former President Donald Trump.
“Nearly every person of consequence at the federal and state levels fell in line by New Hampshire,” they noted of Trump’s recent primary campaign win and overall improving odds. “Even those who’d been ridiculed by Trump stood on stage with wide smiles.”
Since Trump’s unexpected surge in polling, the Democratic Party and its analysts have been going in a dozen different directions trying to explain it away or dismiss it.
The growing consensus in progressive media circles seems to be that tweaking the Democratic Party’s campaign message and censoring Donald Trump into oblivion will be enough to push incumbent President Joe Biden over the finish line in November.