Voters Respond To Biden Accomplishments, Winning Virginia, Ongoing GOP Betrayal
Published:October 25, 2023
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*Published with the generous permission of Simon Rosenberg. Read more of his important work on his Hopium substack.
By Simon Rosenberg
Voters Respond Positively When Informed About Biden Accomplishments - Part of the reason I’m optimistic about 2024 is that we know from polling and research that voters don’t know much what Biden has done, and when they are informed (what campaigns do) his approval jumps. Our friends at Navigator just released some new research looking at this dynamic, which includes these two key charts:
You can see the biggest jumps come from independents and Democratic leaning voters of color, some of the universes we need to shore up right now to get to 55 next year. Remember - it is early, we don’t have a primary election happening, the Biden campaign hasn’t really turned on yet, and it is not suprising our coalition hasn’t come back together yet. Given our strong performances across the US in 2022 and 2023, I am confident that if we keep working hard we can pull our coalition back together next year, keep winning indies and wandering Republicans and win this thing.
This research is a reminder that the work we have to do in the next year is doable work, it is things we can do. Joe Biden is a good President, the country is better off. We can sell that. How you sell Trump after what he’s done is much harder to see. All of this is at the core of why I would much rather be us than them as we head in 2024. We can do this people!
Last week on Fox the outrage machine was on overdrive as the overpaid stuffed shirts expressed their disgust at President Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter. Judge Jeanine conveniently forgot to mention that Trump pardoned her ex-husband, Steve Doocy and Emily Compagno both declared that the president-elect was already improving the economy and Jesse Watters joked about annexing Canada and Greenland while promoting conspiracy theories about Iran rigging the 2020 election.Jessica Tarlov was the only person on the network that mentioned Donald J. Trump also pardoned a family member. Hunter Biden had fallen off the radar of Fox News but last week it was suddenly the most important topic in the world.
Rick dissects Trump’s blatant lies about Biden’s response to Hurricane Helene, and the long history of MAGA using tragedy for political gain. He discusses the use of social media and AI to disseminate disinformation, particularly Marjorie Taylor Greene’s absurd claim that “they” control the weather.
Fox News was desperate for some kind of scandal to help boost Trump’s presidential campaign. Fox tried to boost RFK Jr.’s endorsement of Trump, Mark Zuckerberg wrote a letter to Jim Jordan, Kamala Harris had an interview with her running mate, Joe Biden somehow controlled Trump’s DOJ, and finally Kamala Harris stranded astronauts in space. Absolutely nothing stuck but that wasn’t going to stop anyone at Fox from insisting all of these stories were life and death important.
A crazy old man named Donald J. Trump called into the last night of Fox News’ coverage of the DNC. When the first show hung up on him he called in to the next show - the worst comedy show on television. Jessica Tarlov broke down his meltdown. Jesse Watters made a racist statement about crime. Sean Hannity waited for a riot that never happened. Brit Hume referred to women who suffered sexual assault and serious pregnancy complications as “abortion speakers” Multiple Fox News hosts whined about how the Dems have treated Biden. Nancy Pelosi proved she’s a boss on PBS.
