If You Were Duped On Biden’s Cognitive Decline, You’re Too Dumb To Be A Journalist
And if you knew, you were in on it.
Democrats are "super-duper worried" about the drag that President Joe Biden will have on them in the 2022 midterm elections, according to journalist Jim VandeHei.
During an interview on MSNBC's "Way Too Early," VandeHei was asked how worried Democrats are about Biden's dismal approval ratings. VandeHei confirmed that all Democrats are extremely worried it.
"They’re super duper-worried, right?" said VandeHei, co-founder of Axios.
"You don’t want the president of your party sitting at 40% or slightly below 40%," he explained. "You look at the numbers of independents, you have swing voters often around 30%, sometimes lower. That's terrible. Like, there's no other way to cut it, and Democrats know that."
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Biden's approval rating remains about 15 points under water, according to RealClearPolitics, with an average approval rating of about 39% and an average disapproval rating of about 54%.
That metric alone signals Democrats will not only lose their majorities in Congress, but do so in embarrassing fashion.
Last week, CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten explained that Republicans are in the "best position ... at this point in any midterm cycle in over 80 years" precisely because of Biden's poor approval rating. That is because the outcome of midterm elections is often correlated with presidential approval in the months leading up to the election.
On Tuesday, Enten reiterated his abysmal analysis, saying Biden is doing worse than Jimmy Carter, who lost re-election because he failed to adequately respond to economic crises.
"I'll compare it to Carter at this point in his presidency, right? Look at the disapproval rating Joe Biden has an inflation right now — it's over 70%," Enten explained. "Carter was not even there at this point in mid-1978. When you're doing worse than Jimmy Carter's doing in the minds of Americans on inflation, you know, that they're holding you responsible for the conditions that are currently on the ground that are hurting Americans in their pocketbooks."
Jim VandeHei, Axios co-founder and CEO, suggested that the media is way out of touch with Americans based on predictions for the 2020 presidential election.
VandeHei appeared Wednesday on MSNBC, where he said that much of the media needs to wake up and realize that they don't understand America.
"On one hand, a lot of this was knowable," he said, pointing out that what was not "knowable" was how House Republicans would "way overperform" this election cycle.
"And this is the one where I think all of us have to have a little bit of humility, and a lot of people living in bubbles have to realize they don't understand America," he said.
"Donald Trump was the only person who thought they were gonna pick up House seats."
VandeHei added, "Trump could still lose, but he performed way better than most people thought that he would. Look at Wisconsin, some of the polls ... somebody had a 17-point Biden lead. It looks like it's going to come down to a point or two. And so there's things happening in America that people don't realize if they're living in big cities."
He pointed out that Hispanic voters came out in droves for President Donald Trump in Florida and insisted that the vote wasn't carried only by "working-class white men."
"In almost every state, he overperformed what people thought he would do, and so we're headed towards some really, really rocky times," VandeHei insisted.
“I do think the one thing all of us can learn is to have a little bit of humility that there's something going on — and we talked a lot about it on the show, all these flags, the boats, everything — there's something going on out there that most of the media has been missing," VandeHei said. “And obviously Donald Trump and the Republicans are the big beneficiaries of that as we sit here today, even if Trump loses the presidency."
(H/T: Mediaite)