jimnyc
10-24-2018, 07:41 AM
As I said yesterday, unless something drastic happens, it's difficult to beat the incumbent, and especially so when that person is doing great in office!
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Dems will struggle to pry middle-class Americans away from Trump
Former Vice President Joe Biden is viewed by many as the Democrats’ best hope of winning back those blue-collar workers in states like Ohio and Michigan who defied tradition and voted for Donald Trump in 2016.
Certainly, compared to progressives like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) or Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), the likeable “Uncle Joe," raised in hardscrabble Scranton, Pa. by middle-class parents, seems a good bet to reconnect with those voters.
But what does Biden or any other Democrat hoping to beat President Trump in 2020 offer the middle class? Nothing but the politics of envy and a transparent effort to misrepresent and belittle the current economy.
During a recent interview with "CBS This Morning," Biden, who has hinted he might run in 2020, urged his party to “focus on all the terrible things that are happening now in terms of interest of the middle-class people and working-class people.”
What exactly are those terrible things, Joe? Would that be the unprecedented number of jobs that are currently available, unemployment that is near a 50-year low, rising wages, lower middle-class taxes that the GOP incorporated in the tax reform bill and that every Democrat voted against, or maybe the increased credits for child care?
Working-class Americans are prospering in today’s economy. Democrats running for office this year have struggled to offer up any competitive economic program because it’s tough to combat the booming jobs market and accelerating growth.
Instead, they are studiously ignoring the obvious success of the Trump agenda — the roll-back of cumbersome regulations and reduced taxes — and the consequent soaring optimism among consumers and business owners alike.
Joe Biden, and others in his party, have instead manufactured a fiction that Trump’s policies have caused the middle class' struggles to worsen. The narrative starts with the false assertion that the GOP tax cuts benefited only the rich and corporations.
Rest - https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/412712-dems-will-struggle-to-pry-middle-class-americans-away-from-trump
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Dems will struggle to pry middle-class Americans away from Trump
Former Vice President Joe Biden is viewed by many as the Democrats’ best hope of winning back those blue-collar workers in states like Ohio and Michigan who defied tradition and voted for Donald Trump in 2016.
Certainly, compared to progressives like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) or Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), the likeable “Uncle Joe," raised in hardscrabble Scranton, Pa. by middle-class parents, seems a good bet to reconnect with those voters.
But what does Biden or any other Democrat hoping to beat President Trump in 2020 offer the middle class? Nothing but the politics of envy and a transparent effort to misrepresent and belittle the current economy.
During a recent interview with "CBS This Morning," Biden, who has hinted he might run in 2020, urged his party to “focus on all the terrible things that are happening now in terms of interest of the middle-class people and working-class people.”
What exactly are those terrible things, Joe? Would that be the unprecedented number of jobs that are currently available, unemployment that is near a 50-year low, rising wages, lower middle-class taxes that the GOP incorporated in the tax reform bill and that every Democrat voted against, or maybe the increased credits for child care?
Working-class Americans are prospering in today’s economy. Democrats running for office this year have struggled to offer up any competitive economic program because it’s tough to combat the booming jobs market and accelerating growth.
Instead, they are studiously ignoring the obvious success of the Trump agenda — the roll-back of cumbersome regulations and reduced taxes — and the consequent soaring optimism among consumers and business owners alike.
Joe Biden, and others in his party, have instead manufactured a fiction that Trump’s policies have caused the middle class' struggles to worsen. The narrative starts with the false assertion that the GOP tax cuts benefited only the rich and corporations.
Rest - https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/412712-dems-will-struggle-to-pry-middle-class-americans-away-from-trump