A large influx of cash into Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is not a good barometer for the sitting President’s popularity.
The President’s campaign has reportedly raked in over $71 million dollars from donors. However, most of that money is not coming from voters, but large donations from wealthy backers in the Democrat party.
The New York Times reported, “Wealthy Democrats have thrown their money behind the president’s re-election bid, but for many reasons, the party’s small donors have yet to step up their contributions.”
The Times offered all sorts of reasons for this decline compared to the small donations – defined as those who give $200 or less – including new rules about data collection, inflation, and overall voter fatigue, all of which are true.
Lackluster Joe Biden
However, the most logical reason seems to be the one preventing everyday Democrats from opening their wallets to support Biden’s campaign: it’s really hard to get excited about another four years of one of the least exciting or intelligible candidates in recent history.
Joe Biden routinely ignores questions from the press, not to mention his own granddaughter. This from the man who threatened to remove anyone in his administration “on the spot” who expressed disrespect for others.
In his first six months in office, Biden held only one official press conference. According to the New York Times, in his first two years, the president granted the fewest interviews since Mr. Reagan’s presidency: only 54. (Donald J. Trump gave 202 during the first two years of his presidency; Barack Obama gave 275.)
One can’t imagine his vigor or ability to handle confrontational situations on the campaign trail will improve. If there even is a campaign trail.
While it’s easy to understand a candidate’s distaste and distrust of the media these days, they cannot simply ignore them. Like it or not (mostly not), the press still plays a crucial role during campaigns that won’t be won on carefully curated Tik-Tok videos and social media messages alone.
Donald Trump may have accused the press of being the “enemy of the people” but, he was smart enough to know the more press coverage, the better. And they lapped it up like a puppy does water on a 90-degree humid day in New York City.
Biden’s glaring absence from the public eye is raising concerns even from the liberal media.
It’s the Economy, Stupid
Regardless of poor optics, the fact remains much of the middle class continues to have difficulty meeting their basic financial responsibilities. The bigger ticket items that once defined the American Dream, such as purchasing a home or a car – seem out of reach completely for many.
Indeed, it seems this country is moving more and more toward, “You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.”
“The President is still struggling to convince Americans Bidenomics is working.” That’s because no matter what people hear or read in the news about cooling inflation or growing the economy from the “bottom-up and middle-out,” their rapidly rising credit card statements and monthly bills tell them times are tough.
Trying to convince me that I am not spending up to 30 percent more for my everyday essentials such as groceries and gas does not remove the reality from the fact that I am.
In April, a Monmouth poll found, “Just 10% of Americans say middle class families have benefited a lot from Biden’s policies so far while 51% say the middle class has not benefited at all.”
Of course, such increases affect the middle and lower class more than those who scoff at an extra dollar or two for milk, eggs, and meat, but no one, not even rich people, like spending more money.
Regardless of how much people get fired up about book bans, abortion, or affirmative action, such passion pursuits get pushed to the side when the economy is sour. When it’s this bad campaigns are often lost on economic issues alone.
I’m not sure who’s doing the numbers at the White House, but it doesn’t appear to be anyone with any sort of financial or accounting acumen.
The Biden Administration, despite the Supreme Court decision to strike down Biden’s attempt to forgive all student loan debt, continues to pursue a promise of forgiving $39 billion in student debt for over 800,000 borrowers.
After all, what better way to galvanize the young adult vote – something the Biden campaign relied upon to win in 2020 and will need again in 2024 – than to tell them they are not responsible for any of the decisions they made to take on such debt?
While it’s true money wins most elections, the million and billionaire donations floating Joe Biden’s campaign only highlights how out of touch the elite establishment is with the plights of everyday Americans on both sides of the aisle.
Jennifer Galardi is the politics and culture editor and opinion writer for 19FortyFive.com. She has a Master’s in Public Policy from Pepperdine University and produces and hosts the podcast Connection with conversations that address health, culture, politics, and policy. In a previous life, she wrote for publications in the health, fitness, and nutrition space. In addition, her pieces have been published in the Epoch Times and Pepperdine Policy Review. You can follow her on Instagram and Twitter.
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