If you think Donald Trump is a shoo-in for reelection in 2024, think again, as he’s already making political blunders that could cost him the election — which is his to win, given the Biden administration’s dreadful job performance and approval ratings circling the drain.
If you want a gut check on how badly things are going for Team Biden, consider the recent Quinnipiac poll showing his approval ratings at 33% — a disaster by any political metric. In fact, the current administration is so unpopular that even CNN — a de facto cheerleading squad for the Democratic National Committee — ran a TV segment last month titled “Why Is Biden So Unpopular?” trying to explain to viewers why the president is, well, so unpopular. And Democratic strategists are so desperate to find a viable candidate to take on the GOP in 2024 that they’re floating Hillary Clinton as a potential candidate — again — despite her lack of appeal with voters, hefty political baggage and serial failed bids for the White House.
Clearly Democrats are freaking out if they’re trying to recycle Clinton, an unpopular candidate, to replace unpopular Biden. That’s like swapping your old clunker with a broken tailpipe and blown transmission with a lemon that can’t make it to your nearest 7-Eleven without calling a tow truck.
Yikes.
That said, Trump is still capable of screwing things up with his unfiltered, freewheeling style that lacks discipline and political calculation, evidenced by his ongoing preoccupation with the “rigged” 2020 election he alleges was stolen from him. Whether you believe the last election was on the up and up or not, someone in Trump’s orbit needs to remind him that elections are about the future — not the past.
The GOP standard-bearer must consider this and shift gears stat or risk political extinction.
Yes, many care about election integrity; it is an important issue. Hence, if Trump runs again in 2024 and wins reelection, he can address voter reform after he’s inaugurated. But not now, or in the run-up to the midterms and beyond, given the prior election is politically explosive and risks repelling voters who care more about the present than the past. Americans care deeply about kitchen table issues like soaring inflation burning a hole in our wallets, the pandemic, our children’s education, and rising crime — not a controversial election from long ago.
Trump would be wise to focus on Biden’s abysmal job performance getting the pandemic under control. It’s well documented that more Americans have died from COVID-19 on Biden’s watch than during the Trump administration, which didn’t have the benefit of vaccines being available. Yet, now, despite over 248 million Americans having received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine — if not 3 jabs with booster shots — the virus is still raging, and access to lifesaving therapeutics and COVID-19 tests are hard to come by due to Team Biden’s colossal failure to deliver these critical tools to us this winter, when they knew the virus would surge.
In fact, when asked during a recent NBC “Today” interview when Americans would get access to 500 million at-home COVID-19 tests the administration promised weeks ago, Vice President Kamala Harris shockingly didn’t know the answer. Biden’s veep whiffed, saying, “Soon.”
Given the gravity of the pandemic, at minimum, Harris should have known the date COVID-19 tests will become available and provided viewers with the government URL to order them. Hardly a heavy lift. But instead, she dismissively suggested citizens Google COVID-19 tests, apparently unaware they’ve been nearly impossible to find for weeks now. All Harris needed to do was tell us the date the government-issued tests would become available, which is Jan. 19, and direct us to COVIDTests.gov to appear even remotely competent.
It’s no wonder Harris’ poll numbers are even worse than her bumbling boss.
Staffing shortages are straining hospitals; schools are returning to virtual learning, harming a generation of youth being denied a quality education. We’re still wearing masks, and despite mass vaccination, which Dr. Anthony “flip-flopping” Fauci said would get our lives back to normal, it’s anything but. We continue to be subjected to endless COVID-19 restrictions stripping our freedoms, while little has changed to curtail the virus. To the contrary, cases have surged in recent weeks. “As of January 12, 2022, the current 7-day moving average of daily new cases (782,766) increased 33.2% compared with the previous 7-day moving average (587,723),” says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Voters also care about Marxist teachers indoctrinating our kids with radical political ideology. We care about the sharp increases in violent crime in cities like New York, where an Asian woman was shoved onto a Times Square subway track last Saturday in a horrific murder by a madman. In Los Angeles, a young UCLA graduate working at a furniture store was also recently killed. These tragic events are just a microcosm of alarming violence trending nationwide under a “soft on crime” Democratic administration that denigrates cops for political gain while letting thugs and repeat offenders skate.
These are some of the issues about which Trump can win reelection handily without saying a peep about the prior election. Will he exercise the restraint and political discipline needed to win?
One can only hope. We have a country to save.
Adriana Cohen is a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate. To find out more about Adriana Cohen and read her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
Perhaps God sent us Trump to be destined to lose his head and his office every bit as John the Baptist lost his to his false accusers with a mission of Baptizing with fire and brimstone of wavering RINO republicans and American independents, with voice crying in the wilderness to prepare ye the way of our perfect Republican redeemer, or as perfect as any man can remain who enters the blood sport of politics. Recycling Hillary to oppose us in 2024 is like substituting Herod Antipas for his father Herod the great. Herod slew his thousands, Antipas slew our redeemer, Hillary will slay the concept of an honest election.
Ecclesiastes said that for everything there is a season and Trump’s first 4 years was the American season of division and discontent. THE PEOPLE are tired of discontent which is the main reason they are tired of Biden. Trump if he seeks to prove himself the savior of the American dream must first conquer himself and move on to the seasons of coming together or he will just end up a voice crying in the wilderness while WE THE PEOPLE prepare for another to get the job done and across the finish line. You cannot deny he has prepared ye the way for many others who are now arising to the challenge and keeping the spirit alive in many of the 50 red state Tribes that many awakened down trodden are now fleeing to like the lost tribes of Israel returning from Assyria.
“That said, Trump is still capable of screwing things up with his unfiltered, freewheeling style that lacks discipline and political calculation, evidenced by his ongoing preoccupation with the “rigged” 2020 election he alleges was stolen from him.”
I understand your point, but Trump was heartily embraced and won handily being the way he is. I agree that he should exercise discretion in any situation, but he is the type who puts his cards on the table and he calls things the way he sees them.
He certainly played a lot of WILD cards.,,,,hope they weren’t the Jokers who were wild.
ITS Not a bungle, that he still focuses on that theft. IT IS A FACT it was stolen.. AND those who refuse to acknowledge it, are COMMUCRATS…
“…..elections are about the future — not the past.”
Well, heck! ALL CRIMES ever committed were committed in the past. That fact would not prevent me from an honest, transparent and thorough investigation.
Mr. Trump is a man that calls it like it is and is for We The People and America as a Whole. He has learned the the Swap has critters that bite, I will bet that he will not under estimate them the next time, if he runs. He mite have better luck if he stays away from the lying Meda and the networks, and let them hang them selves. on the outside he does run? he has learned a few things that he will not do again.
BUT has he learned, WHO NO TO TAKE ADVICE From? That’s the big question!
A News Update:
In fact, when asked during a recent NBC “Today” interview when Americans would get access to 500 million at-home COVID-19 tests the administration promised weeks ago, Vice President Kamala Harris shockingly didn’t know the answer. Biden’s veep whiffed, saying, “Soon.”
The United States Post Office is now operating various fulfillment centers to ship out the 500 million at-home Covid test kits. So, these will be going out.
Now, you can debate how costly these “free” test kits will actually be to the taxpayers… I bet it will be a very costly program as opposed to getting these through stores… but the fact is, these will be going out soon…
And you can easily debate how valuable these test kits will be. Sure, you can take a test one day and get exposed to the virus the next…
Just pointing out we can very soon stop pummeling Biden on this point and hit him on his other failures.
Also, how QUICKLY do those tests work? How accurate are they?
WHO are they mailing them too??
A very good question. Are the rapid Covid tests as reliable as the government supplied converter boxes from years ago when the government got rid of analog TV? Those converter boxes were garbage.
The bigger point is that “Illegit 46” — my “endearing” term for Brandon — is in his effort to look like he is doing something, he is taking an awful lot of these tests off the market where consumers might able to buy them faster and cheaper (taxpayer dollarwise).
PLUS what are they DOING with those tests?? DO we have to self check? OR are we sending them IN somewhere/??