Obama and Clinton look to boost Biden without overshadowing him
The Washington Examiner points out how Biden’s use of the more popular presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton may backfire on the current (yet addled) president.
President Joe Biden is hoping the star power of his Democratic predecessors, former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, will shine a light on his campaign against another former president, Donald Trump, during a high-profile New York City fundraiser.
But although his last State of the Union before November’s general election addressed concerns about his age, his campaign is under pressure to make sure Biden is not overshadowed, particularly by his younger, more popular former boss.
The Biden campaign dismisses the idea that the president has an enthusiasm problem, citing expectations Thursday night’s fundraiser could raise more than $25 million, with 5,000-plus attendees anticipated to be at Radio City Hall.
“Democrats are unified and energized behind President Biden’s reelection campaign, and that will be on full display this Thursday in New York City,” Biden campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz told the Washington Examiner. “Donald Trump has no juice heading into the general: Huge chunks of Republican primary voters have made clear they have no interest in voting for him this November, Republican leaders like his own vice president are openly opposing him, and even if Trump wanted to reach them (he does not!), he has no cash or energy to do so.”
“Elections are won by putting in the work to assemble a broad, diverse coalition, and Joe Biden is doing just that,” Munoz said.
Simultaneously, Republican strategist and former chief of staff to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) Cesar Conda contended Biden’s support in black, Hispanic, and Asian communities is “hemorrhaging.”
“President Trump has made significant gains with minority voters, which is why I think we will [see] Barack Obama earlier and often on the campaign trail compared to 2020,” Conda told the Washington Examiner. “But I don’t think Obama’s appeal will transfer to Biden because blacks and Hispanics have been battered by rising gas prices, grocery bills, and housing costs caused by Biden’s policies. They know that they were much better off financially during the Trump-era economy.”
Meanwhile, the Trump campaign is claiming “Crooked Hillary,” in addition to “Barack Hussein Obama,” is “coming out of the bullpen to help Joe Biden shuffle over the finish line because Democrats know Biden is weak, unpopular, and incompetent.”
“Their reinforcement efforts will fail when President Trump defeats them on Nov. 5,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said.
(Read more at the Washington Examiner)
Even if Democrats do not hear the opposition, they remember the past
Surely these Democrats remember the better economy coming out of Trump’s term. They might even remember the more centrist views of Barack during his first term and Bill during his whole two terms.
If they are Baby Boomers or Generation X, they might remember the hardships of the last socialist-leaning president (the peanut farmer). Therefore, they might remember how many years it took of Reagan to get out of the Carter malaise.
So, pointing us to better times likely will not motivate voters to the polls.
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Biden White House quietly intervening in international labor dispute despite objections he may be breaking the law
Fox News looks into how Joe Biden has decided to take up the cause of Mexican labor despite warnings from others telling him he may be breaking the law.
The White House is escalating a labor dispute at a major mine in central Mexico, an action backed by powerful labor unions, but it could have a devastating effect on workers and the economy.
The United States Trade Representative (USTR), which is housed in the White House, is pursuing the case by leveraging a little-used tool in the 2020 United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
The Rapid Response Labor Mechanism (RRM), is a provision that allows the government to take enforcement action against factories if they fail to comply with domestic freedom of association and collective bargaining laws. As part of its effort, the USTR successfully convened the first-ever RRM tribunal to review concerns brought by labor officials in the U.S. and Mexico.
“This announcement upholds the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to creating a more level playing field for workers to feel empowered and using every enforcement tool at our disposal to safeguard workers’ rights,” U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said after her office filed its initial motion to convene the RRM tribunal.
However, the process has faced considerable pushback from the Mexican government, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the owner of the mine, Grupo Mexico, which has argued the U.S. government doesn’t have jurisdiction in the dispute. Critics have also warned the process, which is expected to conclude with a ruling as early as Friday, has lacked transparency.
The case dates back more than a decade and a half when, in 2007, the powerful Mexican miners’ union Los Mineros went on strike at Grupo Mexico’s San Martin mine in Sombrerete, Zacatecas, which produces a high quantity of Mexico’s lead, zinc and copper supplies. The strike was related, in part, to safety conditions at the site.
According to legal filings reviewed by Fox News Digital, the San Martin mine reopened 11 years later, in 2018, when the mine’s operator struck a deal with Los Trabajadores Coaligados, a coalition of workers that voted to return to work and end the strike. In June 2023, the Mexican Conciliation and Arbitration Board, a government panel, confirmed in a ruling that the strike was over and San Martin could operate as normal.
(Read more at Fox News)
This only accentuates the claim by President Trump that Biden is “Mexico First”
At a time that we are being flooded by illegal aliens, this will not sit well with most voters. At a time that most Americans struggle to make ends meet, having Joe Biden go to bat for a Mexican union just does not seem right.
And at a time that Joe keeps claiming he works for America and has our economy running better than it ran under President Trump, that will likely keep people home on election night.
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