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Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind: Reelecting President Joe Biden
Good News/Bad News: Incumbents run on their record.
“Biden, gearing up for reelection bid, urges Democrats to tout accomplishments,” reported CBS News on March 1, 2023.
“Folks, you all know how much we’ve gotten done, but a lot of the country still doesn’t know,” President Biden told Democratic lawmakers at the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference this week. “If we did nothing, nothing but implement what we’ve already passed and let people know who did it for them, we win.”
At the event, Biden proudly flourished a sign reading, “President Joe Biden” which will hang above the Frederick Douglass Tunnel under construction in Baltimore.
“We’re going to let everybody know you did it,” Biden told Democrats. “These are the signs we’re going to put up.”
That Biden chose these words in Baltimore is interesting.
Recently released international crime index numbers show Baltimore scores worst out of all U.S. cities. Clocking in at #15, Baltimore is safer than #1 Caracas, Venezuela, and #7 Kabul, Afghanistan, but Baltimore’s citizens are less safe than those living in Memphis (#18), Detroit (#19), and Kingston, Jamaica (#26).