Over the last few days, Joe Biden had projected confidence going into yesterday’s election. He leaned into the camera to declare that Terry McAuliffe would be elected. It was no doubt a show of falsified confidence by a president watching his whole agenda fall before him.
As we all now know, things did not go Biden’s way last night. Glenn Youngkin won a stunning upset victory to take the governor’s race in Virginia. Republicans won the House of Delegates as well the remaining two state races. Things didn’t stop there, though. All across the country, there were upheavals. One of these was a Biden +14 Texas district that went Republican.
So what was the president’s response? Well, there isn’t one. Biden, along with the entire White House, called for a lid in order to explain or face questions about their future plans. Today’s press conference will not take place, even 24 hours after the conclusion of a major electoral election.
Joe Biden has no public events scheduled today. WH Press Briefings are not available.
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) November 3, 2021
It is clear that the White House doesn’t have any other options. They’ve leaned into woke culture as hard as they can and have bent the knee to the progressive wing of the Democrat Party. McAuliffe was supposed to win and provide evidence that Biden’s moves were not proving detrimental. The results show the opposite. Virginia’s radicalism of the Biden government was decisive as it pushed Youngkin to the final hurdle.
That means the president’s agenda is on life support. This morning, Joe Manchin cited the election results as a sign that Americans are worried about inflation and other rising costs, signaling he may have gotten the message that voting for another massive spending bill isn’t going to play well back in West Virginia (or anywhere else outside of deep blue enclaves).
Manchin shared his top takeaways with me on last night. He stated that inflation is a major concern and rising prices are causing people to be concerned.
“Pay attention to people back home. They’ll tell you what’s going on,” he said.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 3, 2021
You can see why the administration doesn’t want to address the music with all the inter-party chaos. How do they respond? But when they finally do speak, you can expect them to double down on everything they did that led to yesterday’s losses. They can push racial extremism or insist that everyone will love them if they spend more money.
Those paying attention know that’s not true, though, and for the moment, it’s probably best Biden just keeps his mouth shut. Unfortunately, for Democrats this is not going to end. The cake is almost completely baked going into 2022 now, and there’s nothing the current White House resident can do to change that.
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