Washington Post editorial board warns Biden not to bow to liberal ‘want lists’ if he wants to beat Trump

The Washington Post editorial board warned that President Biden‘s efforts to defeat former President Trump in a 2024 presidential rematch might depend upon how loyal he is to the “wish lists” of left-leaning curiosity teams forward of the election.

“Mr. Trump could well win if their rematch were today, but Mr. Biden has eight months to improve his fortunes. Nodding to the priorities of every Cabinet agency and the wish lists of liberal interest groups won’t shift any narratives,” the Post’s editorial board famous Saturday.

The editorial board’s declare got here because it mentioned subsequent week’s State of the Union handle and warned Biden not to “squander his biggest televised audience of the year by delivering another box-checking laundry list that drags on more than an hour.”

Specifically, the left-leaning information outlet urged that Biden ought to promise to use govt motion on the border disaster, saying that he “will lose reelection if he doesn’t address the southern border.”

“It’s valid to castigate Republicans for killing the sensible bipartisan border deal, something Mr. Biden did during his visit to a Texas border town on Thursday — but insufficient. He needs to convey he understands that many see the millions of border crossings as a breakdown in one of the federal government’s core responsibilities and outline how he will use executive authorities to stop it if Congress won’t,” the editorial board wrote.

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The Washington Post editorial board warned President Biden not to “squander his biggest televised audience of the year” throughout subsequent week’s State of the Union handle. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg by way of Getty Images)

Prompting Biden to resonate with extra viewers and listeners, the editorial board insisted the president should “rethink an exhausted format, step up to the bully pulpit and make a case less for himself than for his worldview” as he addresses a joint session of Congress on March 7.

“He needs to push back on the self-defeating isolationism, nativism and protectionism of the ‘America First’ movement, whose ideas are as dangerous now as when they were previously tried, and failed, in the 1930s,” the editorial board wrote.

Several nationwide polls in latest weeks recommend that Biden is affected by an enthusiasm hole when it comes to how excited voters are to help him in November.

A Monmouth University ballot performed final month confirmed that solely 32% of registered voters really feel at the least considerably captivated with Biden’s candidacy, and that quantity stands at simply 62% amongst Democrats.

The identical variety of registered voters, 32%, say they’re at the least considerably assured in Biden’s bodily and psychological means to be president. The identical ballot reveals that confidence in Biden’s skills amongst Democrats has dropped considerably to 72% after standing at 91% in 2020. 

The Monmouth ballot additionally reveals Biden with a meager 39% approval ranking and that he is underneath water on a number of points with voters, together with jobs, immigration and overseas coverage.

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“Mr. Trump could well win if their rematch were today, but Mr. Biden has eight months to improve his fortunes,” the Washington Post editorial board wrote Saturday. (FOX News)

The weak approval ranking is backed up by different polls, and the Real Clear Politics common reveals that his approval ranking has been underneath 50% since August 2021. 

According to Gallup, Biden is considerably shedding help from key demographics, together with younger voters, Black voters and Hispanic voters.

Gallup defined that a lot of the decline in Black voters referring to themselves as Democrats has been in the previous few years.

“Most of the decline has been recent, with the net-Democratic ID for this group falling 19 points from a 66-point advantage in 2020,” Gallup mentioned. “At that time, 77% of Black adults favored the Democrats and 11% the Republicans, so the 2023 findings represent an 11-point decrease in Democratic affiliation since 2020 and an eight-point increase in Republican affiliation.”

Other mainstream information retailers have taken discover of the passion numbers, together with the New York Times editorial board, which wrote earlier this month that Biden “needs to do more to show the public that he is fully capable of holding office until age 86.”

The Biden marketing campaign beforehand pointed Fox News Digital to “several indicators of enthusiasm” they’ve seen in favor of the president.

“In the Nevada primary, we saw higher turnout than 2008 – despite that being a far more competitive election,” Biden marketing campaign spokesperson Lauren Hitt mentioned. “The email from the First Lady after the Hur report was our best-performing email since the launch.”

President Biden indicators an govt order with Vice President Kamala Harris on October 30, 2023. (Al Drago/Bloomberg by way of Getty Images)

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Hitt additionally pointed to Biden successful “extra votes in NH as a write in candidate than Obama did in ‘12” and highlighted that Obama was on the ballot, and Biden wasn’t.

“January was our best grassroots fundraising month ever, we doubled the number of small-dollar donors from December,” Hitt added. “We brought in over $1M in donations following President Biden’s speech marking the anniversary of the January sixth revolt.”

Fox News’ Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.

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