Biden's incredible shrinking path to victory

 

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Badlands News Brief Trump's Plan, Biden's Path & Israel's Dilemma BURNING BRIGHT JUL 11   READ IN APP   Behind the Curtain: Trump's new 2024 plan Former President Trump is adjusting his agenda, the GOP platform, his vice-presidential plans — even his debate style — to win over more than a half-dozen persuadable voter groups in seven states, advisers tell us. Why it matters: Starting with the debate, every Trump move — from personally editing the Republican platform to lying low while President Biden's debate debacle sucked up attention — has been designed to nudge double-haters and truly undecided voters. State of play: The Trump campaign sees a clearer map emerging, with these swing states being hardest to easiest to win, in this order: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada and Arizona. (You could flip the first two, but the campaign puts Pennsylvania first because it's the biggest swing state, and because Biden desperately needs it.) Job 1 for the V.P. nominee, besides raising money, will be to park in Pennsylvania to try to deny Biden the biggest of his Blue Wall states. The Rust Belt appeal of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) helped rocket him to one of the finalist slots to be Trump's running mate. The Trump-orchestrated platform adopted this week by the Republican National Committee targets very specific groups in these states — most notably Rust Belt, working-class, white voters ... plus security-focused moms who are skeptical of Trump's style but care about the border and crime ... Hispanic, working-class men ... and Nevada bartenders angered by high taxes on tips. — Axios And … Biden's incredible shrinking path to victory President Biden appears, for now, to have stalled the Democratic coup triggered by his disastrous debate performance — but at a potentially massive cost. Why it matters: If Biden remains the nominee and loses to former President Trump in November, as many Democrats privately and publicly believe he will, the failed rebellion will haunt the party for years. Driving the news: Cook Political Report moved six states toward Trump in its Electoral College ratings Tuesday, citing Biden's decline in national and private battleground polls shared by both Democratic and GOP sources. The big picture: Heading into the debate, Biden was already a historically unpopular incumbent with a narrow path to winning 270 electoral votes. It was the Biden campaign that requested the debate in June — the earliest in U.S. history — in a strategic bid to reset the race and draw national attention to Trump's flaws. The gamble backfired in spectacular fashion, redirecting scrutiny to Biden's biggest vulnerability — his age — and setting off widespread calls for him to drop out for the first time all campaign. Zoom in: Two weeks into the post-debate meltdown, Democrats have found themselves in arguably the worst of all scenarios. — Axios Our Take: The legacy media relies on their audience’s gullibility and institutional trust, but as people awaken to the deception by their trusted sources, the power of those outlets diminishes, audiences dwindle. Take Axios, for example. Since Biden’s debate disaster, the outlet appeared to be firmly on Team Replacement, publishing borderline disparagement that relied solely on ‘anonymous sources close to the matter.’ It seems that now they realize Biden isn’t going anywhere. In the two articles before us here, we see Axios being critical of both candidates, but not in equal ways. While the outlet’s Biden critiques focus on his age and feebleness, their approach to Trump is to repeat the ‘convicted felon’ lines and screech about abortion. This tactic is directly in line with the Democrat Politicians and NGOs, who have spent the last couple weeks declaring that Heritage’s Project 2025 is the much anticipated sequel to the Handmaid’s Tale. Like I said, their audiences aren’t that bright. Taking these articles together, the outlet will say, ‘Look at us being so balanced, being so critical of both sides.’ But they’re not actually. In each of these articles, when you cut through the nonsense and noise, you get to Axios’ key takeaway, where the outlet confidently, and repeatedly, asserts that, despite all these ‘new’ and ‘urgent’ revelations about the President having dementia, the candidates are still ‘neck and neck.’ They have to protect the 50/50 country lie with everything they have. It’s one of their biggest lies of all, responsible for perceived national division and solidified through ceremonial and theatrical ‘elections.’ As long as we are a 50/50 country, they can claim a tiny majority and do whatever they want. When our countrymen figure that out — that we are not a 50/50 country, and they only believed that we were because outlets like Axios abused their trust — everything will change. — Ashe in America