Daily Verse | 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Wednesday’s Reading: 2 Thessalonians 1-3
It’s Wednesday and thanks for checking in this morning. I don’t know why, but sales of my Velcro jello mold have stalled.
Just when it seemed President Joe Biden could get no lower in the public’s political esteem, a new I&I/TIPP Poll of Americans’ preference for the 2024 Democratic presidential ballot is a shocker: Just over one out of five want Joe Biden back at the top of the Democrats’ ticket in three years.
A number of recent I&I/TIPP Polls (here and here) have documented Biden’s sharp decline in favorability with the public due to a number of issues, ranging from his leadership of the military, the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, the recent inflation surge and supply-chain crisis, the border crisis, and a number of other vexing White House issues.
Even so, no favorite has emerged among the large field of potential challengers to run against Biden in the 2024 primaries. The I&I/TIPP Poll gave respondents the names of 16 other possible candidates, asking “Who do you want to see run for president on the Democratic ticket in 2024?”
As mentioned, Biden was named by just 22% of those asked, while 12% mentioned Vice President Kamala Harris, whose abrasive style, lack of preparation and revolving-door personnel changes have drawn criticism even from formerly friendly Democrats and the left-leaning media.
Biden and Harris with their corruptocrat commie cronies operate like they have a political mandate from the people to blow up America as we’ve known it. But whatever support they had has evaporated like coverage of Darrell Brooks from the MSM.
In fact, I’d wager that even 22 percent is higher than their actual base of support.
That number is easy to believe since it matches the number of people in a recent NBC poll who say that the country is headed in the right direction: “Just 22% of adults say we are headed in the right direction.” (I posted about that here.) I’m not insulting your math skills when I say that means that 78% of adults think we’re headed south.
Let’s go, Brandon!
Plus, small business owners are letting the Resident have it, too.
Just 34 percent of small business owners say they approve of the way Joe Biden is handling his job as president, down from 40 percent in the previous quarter and 43 percent at the start of the year, according to the latest CNBC|Momentive Small Business Survey.
Small business owners tend to be Republicans learning, so its no surprise that Biden is more disapproved than approved. What makes the fourth-quarter polling results so startling is that virtually all of the decline in support for Biden came from independents.
Just nine percent of Republican small business owners say they approve of Biden, while 89 percent of Democrats do. Those figures are nearly unchanged from previous surveys.
Among independents, however, support for Biden fell from 51 percent to just 33 percent.
Fifty-nine percent of independents say Biden has been bad for small businesses and 60 percent say he has been bad for the economy.
It was a Democrat, James Carville, who famously said during the 1992 election between incumbant George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, “It’s the economy, stupid.”
Thirty years later, it’s still the economy. Hit people in the pocketbook through inflation and taxes, and you’ll lose their support every time.
Still, it’s hard to have much sympathy for those who voted for Joey Ice Cream Cone. They deserve what they’re getting. The rest of us, not so much.
On the other hand, imagine if Trump had been allowed to expand on his successes. We’d be energy independent, China and Russia would not be the military threats they are (although China always had the bioweapons at their disposal), the economy would be expanding and we’d have recovered our position as a superpower.
bUt … BuT … nO moaR mEan tWeeTs!
Only three more years to go.