I liked it when the media was just biased. Now it exists in its own alternate reality and writes elaborate fiction that has as little to do with events in the real world as anything on TV. What’s the difference between CNN and Discovery’s fictional offerings? Beats me. Except some people still confuse CNN with reality.
Anyway, CNN has an “exclusive” with Kamala Harris which required it to make the case that Biden needs her.
“We’re going to have to earn our reelect, there’s no doubt about it,” the vice president told CNN in an exclusive phone interview from Air Force Two after spending just over an hour in South Carolina on a trip to officially file Biden for the Democratic primary there.
Just over an hour. She’s really earning it.
Polling nationally and in battleground states alike suggests the president, who turns 81 on Monday, is weak with young voters, as well as with Black and other voters of color. Overall, Biden and Harris hold similar approval ratings, but Harris’ ratings among these key subgroups have varied, suggesting views of the vice president are not as deeply entrenched. Several Harris insiders have optimistically pointed to the New York Times/Siena College polls of battleground states released this month, which showed “11 percent of Ms. Harris’s would-be supporters do not back Mr. Biden, and two-thirds of them are either nonwhite or younger than 30,” according to The Times.
That has created an uncomfortable dynamic for the Biden team in Wilmington, Delaware, and the West Wing that has mythologized his connection with voters as being stronger than polls can measure and where some are still carrying grudges from the Democratic primary race. Harris is consistently rating better – which, to a growing number of Democrats, means that if Biden wants a second term in an election that Biden aides are forecasting will be won by slivers of votes, he will need to rely on her help to get there.
“People were saying, ‘The VP is a drag on the ticket,’” South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn, who boosted Biden in 2020, said after joining Harris for the filing. “Now they’re saying just the opposite.”
“I absolutely think she can move voters,” said Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Austin Davis, a 34-year-old African American in one of the target demographics the Biden campaign is desperate to improve with, in a state the president needs to carry.
This is some entertaining fanfiction. In the real world, Kamala Harris has a 53% disapproval rating and only a 36% approval rating.
Yes, you read that correctly. (35.9%, but I decided to give her .1% to be generous.)
When you can barely get a third of the country to sign on, that means you’ve not only lost Republicans and most Independents, you’re not doing well with Dems either.
But sure, Kamala will save Biden. Also, Joe Biden is a “beast.”
White House infrastructure coordinator Mitch Landrieu dismissed questions about President Joe Biden’s age on Thursday while touting the extensive schedule the president has kept in order to promote the bipartisan infrastructure law.
“For those of you that think the president might be too old or doesn’t have enough energy or whatever it is that you all think,” Landrieu told a group of reporters. “This guy gets up early. He stays up late. We have made trips, if not every week, sometimes twice a week and three times a week. And we have done it over and over again and there’s nothing new here. What’s wonderful about it is how relentless that it is and how many places that we have been.”
“The guy is like, he’s a beast,” Landrieu later added.
As I said, the media is just writing Biden admin fanfiction now.