Democrats Hit New Levels of Disingenuous Posturing Toward Biden – Opinion

President Joe Biden kicks off a US Tour this week, in an attempt to improve his likability and boost Democratic Party candidates by selling voters on recent policy “wins”. On Saturday, I reported that Nevada’s Democrats were avoiding unfavorable Biden on the campaign trail. Since then, the Biden-aversion has spread to Arizona. During Sunday’s appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union”, host Jake Tapper asks Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) if he would like Biden to campaign for him in Arizona. Kelly answers,

“Hey, I will welcome anybody to come to Arizona, travel around the state at any time — as long as I’m here, if I’m not up in Washington in session — and talk about what Arizona needs,”

Either not everyone can read for nuance, or we are to be fully committed to selective understandings because The Hill wrote that Kelly “welcomes Biden on campaign”. No, he didn’t. He claimed he’d welcome the opportunity to do so. anybody…Answer the question by exclamating Hey. Kelly’s response was a dodge and an attempt at being polite when offered something he was disinterested in.

Sen Kelly vulnerableI think they refer to the incumbent who is leading 8 points but let’s not get picky. It is a headline that pretends frail Dems await Biden.The lifeblood of the party.They will waltz into their offices and give them a boost. That kind of storytelling is sad, deceitful, and difficult to follow. Not every outlet is buttering up Biden’s surrogate desirability, as my colleague Joe Cunningham points out. This is the Washington Post isn’t letting “democracy die in darkness” by shining a light on Biden’s unpopularity.

The president isn’t featured in ads. His name is not mentioned on Twitter or campaign websites. And candidates in key races in battleground states are either not asking him to come — or avoiding him when he does.

Along with the snubs racking up from Nevada’s Dems, Rep. Tim Ryan’s (D-OH) absence from an early July Biden visit in Cleveland, and Georgia Gubernatorial candidate, Stacey Abrams (D) skipping an Atlanta appearance with Biden in January, some Democrats are campaigning Against Biden. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) is running ads saying she is “fighting back” and that she “doesn’t work for Joe Biden”. The ad tells voters that she is, “working with Republican Rob Portman, protecting our jobs.”

Kaptur was a champion of Biden last month when she campaigned in Ohio for the Inflation Reduction Act. Kaptur has been serving Congress for the longest time and is trying to get her 20th year. Kaptur votes 100% with Joe Biden.

It’s clear that Kaptur has read some polls in her 20 years in office, takes notes, and panders accordingly. It’s obvious that Kelly was being professional and courteous in his nationally-broadcast answer about everyone, even Biden, being welcome. But for voters, it’s insulting and intolerable that we have to watch politicians become contortionists bending around the basic truth: Biden is super cringey, gaffe and confusion prone, and a massive liability for both candidates and the country alike. Dems are fleeing, hoping that they won’t be splashed during their election. Biden-aversion tours have just started and the Emperor is still naked.

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