Signs of life: Democrats suddenly look feisty
The graphic above is over the top, of course. A House special election win on Tuesday and other indicators that 2022 will not be a Republican wave year does not a blue wave make.
Even so….
The Kansas landslide rejection of an abortion ban amendment, tightening national generic polls, a Florida poll showing Rep. Val Demings (D) edging Sen. Marco Rubio (R) in his reelection bid, polls in Ohio showing Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan ahead of GOP Senate candidate J.D. Vance, and weak GOP fundraising as Donald Trump siphons his party’s election fuel have lifted Democrats’ spirits.
As have Democrats’ legislative wins this summer, surging post-Dobbs voter registration by women, this week’s announcement of President Biden’s student debt forgiveness, and Biden’s approval numbers creeping up as gas prices creep down.
Not to mention ominious-looking legal threats to the former president.
The White House on Thursday issued an in-your-face Twitter rebuttal to Republican criticisms of student debt forgiveness. Damn, I don’t recall anything quite like it.
The White House brought receipts. Joe Biden did. What a concept.
Give that staffer a raise, someone replied in the comments. Others cited other Republican electeds who had PPP loans forgiven. It’s not that Democrats did not receive any during the pandemic. It’s that Democrats are not the ones going all “for me but not for thee” now about student loan forgiveness.
Capping it off, Biden went after Trump’s MAGA movement head-on Thursday:
“What we’re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy. It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the — I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism,” he said at a fundraising event hosted by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in Bethesda, Md.
It’s part of Biden’s midterm strategy, The Hill reported, “to paint Republicans as extreme.”
He won’t need two coats either.
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