President Ronald Reagan once said, “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.” I’d like to propose an addendum to the Gipper’s piece of political wisdom: If your presidential campaign is solely focused on killing as many unborn babies as possible, you’re losing.
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is not going according to plan. The 81-year-old is trailing former President Donald Trump both nationally and in nearly every swing state. The president can’t run on foreign policy victories; the plodding, U.S. taxpayer-funded war in Ukraine has no end in sight, and Biden’s reputation on foreign policy took another hit with his inexplicable decision to fund both sides of the Gaza war, almost certainly prolonging the conflict long past its natural expiration date.
Biden’s team abandoned the term “Bidenomics” faster than it abandoned U.S. allies in Kabul, and now JPMorgan’s Matthew Boss has said the U.S. economy is in a “selective recession,” meaning the lower and middle classes are already experiencing a recession as they struggle to keep up with the cost of living. Via the Bureau of Labor Statistics, prices have jumped 20.8% since 2020, a brutal number for working class Americans, and politicians seeking reelection.
The president is making no effort to tack to the middle as the election approaches, and polls suggest Biden is losing support among black Americans. So the focus is on the Democrats’ most loyal voting block: single, liberal white women. Biden’s X feed is almost exclusively abortion propaganda designed to scare liberal women into political action.
The president’s social media team may excite extremely online feminists with posts such as “Donald Trump doesn’t have a clue about the power of women. He’s about to find out,” but it is unlikely that girl-power tweets will distract everyday people from the worst inflationary cycle in 40 years.
Unsurprisingly, there is little truth to Biden’s abortion-related claims. He posted, “A vote for Trump is a vote for a national abortion ban,” and that Trump would restrict access to birth control if elected in November.
Of course, this couldn’t be further from the truth as the former president has angered the pro-life movement as of late, moving to the center on the issue and even erroneously blaming pro-life legislation for electoral losses. Trump’s only stance on abortion this election cycle has been no stance at all: that after Dobbs, the issue is in the hands of the states. Nevertheless, the Biden team seems committed to perpetuating its abortion radicalism.
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Unfortunately for the president, public sentiment doesn’t match his campaign’s major focus. A Gallup poll from last month reveals that 36% of voters say the economy is their number one issue and 18% of respondents say that immigration is their top issue this election cycle, while only 4% of voters hold abortion as their top priority.
Looking past the moral depravity of making the killing of the most vulnerable the focus of a presidential campaign, there simply are not enough liberal, abortion-obsessed women to overcome the economic and foreign policy destruction caused by the Biden administration.
Brady Leonard (@bradyleonard) is a musician, political strategist, and host of The No Gimmicks Podcast.