A CNN panel worked overtime on Thursday to defend President Joe Biden from their network's own poll.
CNN released a new poll this week showing that a majority of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters want their party to nominate someone other than Biden as their 2024 candidate for the White House.
The vast majority, nearly three-quarters, of those Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters said they had no preference of who should replace Biden — they just want someone else, anyone else.
Reacting to the poll on "CNN This Morning," network anchor Don Lemon and political analyst Maggie Haberman appeared to be in denial over the poll's results.
"Biden is the sitting president, so he is just definitionally in a stronger position. I'm sorry, he just is," Haberman defended. "And so even though I know that there are a lot of people in his party who privately will say they don't want him to run, until those people start saying that publicly, Biden is in good shape."
Lemon took the defense of Biden farther. Not only is the poll not troubling for Biden, but the president "is winning," Lemon declared.
"Biden is winning. I'm sorry, Biden is winning," Lemon said. "And I don't know what the polling is showing, if you look at the Inflation Reduction Act, lower gas prices, lower prescription drug prices, better than expected midterm for Democrats, Brittney Griner's release from Russia, the Respect for Marriage Act. I mean, Biden is winning."
Lemon even began to suggest the poll is wrong, but cut himself off to predict that Biden will run for reelection.
While Biden may be "winning" in Lemon's eyes, the president would likely struggle to win a head-to-head matchup against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
A new USA Today-Suffolk University poll released this week showed that DeSantis would defeat Biden by four points, 47% to 43%. Still, as Haberman pointed out, all "signs are that Biden is going to run."
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who rose to media stardom during Donald Trump's presidency, accused the former president of communicating an "implicit threat" of violence to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
On Monday, Trump's attorneys filed a motion requesting the appointment of a "special master" to review the items FBI agents seized from Mar-a-Lago for privileged information.
The 27-page court filing included the message that Trump relayed to Garland via a top Justice Department official, Jay Bratt, on Aug. 11.
That message said:
President Trump wants the Attorney General to know that he has been hearing fromPeople all over the country about the raid. If there was one word to describe theirmood, it is "angry." The heat is building up. The pressure is building up. WhateverI can do to take the heat down, to bring the pressure down, just let us know.
Reacting to the court filing on CNN, Haberman alleged the message communicated an "implicit threat."
"It is notable that he referenced that conversation, that an intermediary had with Garland," Haberman began. "That is ... a classic Donald Trump move where he starts trying to have a negotiation with a prosecutor.
"But there is also an implicit threat, it seems, in what he is saying, which is, well, people are angry, and who knows what will happen," she charged.
Previously, in an interview on CNN's "New Day" last week, Haberman reported that Trump was trying to be "friendly" with the message, which at that time had not yet been confirmed to have existed.
"So Donald Trump has a very long history of trying to sort of both negotiate with prosecutors who are looking into him, this has been going on for decades, and also to try to send some kind of a 'friendly word' to people who are either writing about him or looking into him or whatever," Haberman explained.
"And this appeared to fall in that category," she declared at the time.
Left-wingers believe that the FBI raid on former president Donald J. Trump's home was completely justified. Mark Levin wants to know how Democrats know the FBI was justified. Were they tipped off? This is a Stalinist mindset, and that's the nature of the Democrat party.
Mark looked at several unprecedented acts against Trump under a microscope in this video. "Pelosi violated the traditional way impeachments are conducted," Mark said, "and that has never been done before ... Impeaching a man who is not president anymore has never been done before. [Congress] triggered a special counsel investigation without a predicate required in the department of justice regulations. That has never been done before."
Let's not forget about the January 6 committee or the Democrats' complete disregard for the Constitution. Now, 90 days before the midterm elections, we have a former president who is likely to want to run for president again being raided by the FBI for reasons related to the Presidential Records Act.
This is the criminalizing of politics like we've never seen before.
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