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Dems are petrified Trump will beat Biden. You won't
believe their latest plan
Hysteria on the left about 2024 and Biden's likely opponent is reaching a fever pitch
By Liz Peek Fox News
Published December 12, 2023 5:00am EST | Updated December 12, 2023 5:06am EST
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Trump Derangement Syndrome has reached new heights. Trump will be a dictator! Trump
will destroy the Constitution! Trump will execute his political opponents! (Yes – loony Joe
Scarborough actually said that.)
And…Trump will destroy democracy, the central theme of Joe Biden’s campaign .
Not since the Grinch stole Christmas has anyone been so hysterically vilified. The
establishment media is spewing out Trump alarmism at warpspeed. The Atlantic recently
published an entire special issue, featuring more than twenty pieces on "how a second
term could shatter norms with the courts, education, the military, foreign policy,
immigration, abortion rights, science, gender", according to the magazine.
Why this sudden surge in scaremongering? Three reasons:
Trump might win.
Biden has nothing else to run on, and
It worked before.
On that last point – remember that in 2016 Hillary Clinton’s team when they weren’t ,
conjuring up fake news about Trump colluding with Russia, pushed a narrative that had
Americans quaking in their Uggs. In his first year in office, they predicted, Trump would
plunge the country into recession and cause a stock market crash! He would ignite World
War III! He was going to deport 11 million illegal immigrants and terminate equal rights for
women! He’d give Europe to Putin and bring back torture!
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Of course, Trump did none of those things. Instead, he helped pass a massive tax
overhaul, put Neil Gorsuch on the court, began dismantling President Obama’s suffocating
regulatory excesses and drove down illegal immigration. Most consequential, he put China
and the rest of the world on notice that the U.S. was not to be trifled with. How? By
bombing Syria during a dinner with China's President Xi at Mar-al-Lago; over what Trump
described as a "beautiful piece of chocolate cake," he stunned the Chinese dictator by
announcing the surprise attack. That set the tone.
In 2016, voters tuned out the alarmist talk and elected Trump over Hillary Clinton. That
didn’t prevent Biden from resorting to the same line of attack in 2020; this time it worked,
which is why they’re going there again.
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The second reason for turning up the Trump hysteria is that Biden has nothing else to sell.
He has pitched Bidenomics incessantly only to find his boasts falling flat with the 60% of
,
voters who disapprove of his handling of the economy. Rumor is that the White House is
backing off the term, and who can blame them? Personalizing big spending, big
government and big inflation seems beyond stupid.
Biden also proudly touts his climate agenda, which is becoming less popular by the day.
Vice President Kamala Harris was recently at COP28 in Abu Dhabi and bragged that the
Biden White House has committed $1 trillion to climate initiatives. For those voters not
keeping track, that must have been a head-turner.
Some might wonder, where is that trillion dollars going? Where, indeed? One of the biggest
objectives of the laughably titled Inflation Reduction Act was boosting take-up of electric
vehicles by greatly expanding the number of charging outlets. Consulting firm McKinsey &
Company predicts that "The United States will need about 28 million ports by 2030 to
meet the demand for electricity by zero-emission passenger vehicles," up from roughly 2.6
million today. It was recently reported that not a single charging station has been added
since that bill passed sixteen months ago .
DEMOCRATIC ANALYSTS SOUND ALARM ON MORE 'GRIM' BIDEN POLLING SHOWING
DIMINISHING SUPPORT IN KEY VOTER GROUPS
John Podesta, who ran Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 campaign, spearheaded Obama’s
climate agenda and founded the left-wing Center for American Progress, was handed
$370 billion in climate funds to distribute to various clean-energy groups; tracking which
swing states and critical districts get those monies will be informative.
Biden also claims to be building the economy from the middle out. He says he’s bringing
manufacturing back to the U.S., but the numbers say otherwise. In December 2019, before
COVID blasted the U.S. economy, there were 12.9 million Americans working in
manufacturing. Last month, that number had inched barely higher, to 13 million.
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The reality is, the GOP agenda for 2024 is bursting with opportunity. The border is truly a
catastrophe . Millions are pouring into our country illegally and the president is inert.
Horrific fentanyl deaths, drug gangs terrorizing border communities, unknown numbers of
terrorists sneaking across the border… and Biden is unwilling to change policies even
though the calamity is dragging down his approval numbers and angering even die-hard
Democrats in blue cities and states. The White House has repeatedly stiffed Eric Adams,
New York City mayor, who has appealed for help as our greatest city hovers on fiscal
crisis.
To what end? Who is cheering on massive illegal immigration? It’s not Hispanics – polling
shows they oppose the influx. It is the progressive wing of the Democratic Party that is
pulling the levers, which says a great deal about Joe Biden’s tenuous grasp on the Oval
Office.
Which brings us to the last point. Democrats are increasingly terrified that Donald Trump
could win in 2024. A new Wall Street Journal poll puts Trump ahead of Biden by 4 points
and by an even greater margin if third-party candidates are in the mix.
In 2020, Trump was rarely ahead, but today is very different. Voters now know what a Joe
Biden presidency looks like, and they don’t like it. Trump wins on nearly every issue –
inflation, crime, securing the border and the Israel-Hamas war.
In the last race, Biden hid in his basement, under cover of the pandemic; the public
consequently did not see how he had aged. The stumbles and mumbles are now daily
embarrassments; it won’t get better. In addition, the president has been credibly accused
of corruption and has lied endlessly about his involvement with his son’s business
activities . Even if the charges never lead to impeachment, the image of Biden as the
upright, honest statesman is gone.
Democrats fear a Trump-Biden rematch. Their over-the-top attacks on President Trump
show just how scared they are.
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Liz Peek is a Fox News contributor and former partner of major bracket Wall Street firm Wertheim &
Company. A former columnist for the Fiscal Times, she writes for The Hill and contributes frequently
to Fox News, the New York Sun and other publications. For more visit LizPeek.com. Follow her on
Twitter @LizPeek.
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