{"id":1307306,"date":"2022-02-17T16:53:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T21:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1307306"},"modified":"2022-02-17T16:53:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T21:53:42","slug":"former-obama-adviser-david-axelrod-tells-biden-to-show-humility-in-state-of-the-union-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-obama-adviser-david-axelrod-tells-biden-to-show-humility-in-state-of-the-union-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Obama Adviser David Axelrod Tells Biden to Show Humility in State of the Union Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-obama-adviser-david-axelrod-tells-biden-to-show-humility-in-state-of-the-union-address%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1307306&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">David Axelrod, Barack Obama\u2019s former political consultant, penned a&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/14\/opinion\/biden-state-of-the-union.html?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&amp;stream=top\">op-ed<\/a> this week admonishing President Joe Biden to appear humble during the State of the Union address on March 1.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-message_actions__container c-message__actions\">\n<p>Referencing 40-year-high inflation, the deadly Afghan withdrawal, rising crime, and coronavirus mandates,&nbsp;Axelrod publicly advised Biden to \u201cproceed with caution\u201d and not to ignore the plight of Americans \u201cin the grips of a national trauma\u201d one year after assuming the presidency.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-message_actions__group\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cPolls show that the vast majority of Americans believe we are on the wrong track, and people will have little patience for lavish claims of progress that defy their lived experiences,\u201d&nbsp;Axelrod advises:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Unsurprisingly, incidents of suicide, drug overdose deaths and violence in our homes and on the streets have grown dramatically. Frustrations with masks, mandates and shifting rules have deepened our political divides. Jobs have come roaring back, raising wages. But those wage increases have been eaten up by inflation, the likes of which we have not seen in four decades. And all the while, the rich have gotten richer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, under Biden\u2019s leadership, just like Obama\u2019s leadership, the elites have grown more wealthy. Establishment media have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/30\/how-much-money-the-10-richest-people-in-the-world-made-in-2021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a>&nbsp;that \u201ccombined, the 10 richest billionaires added $402.17 billion to their net worths in 2021\u201d under Biden\u2019s so-called economic recovery. Meanwhile, the average worker got a 2.4 percent pay&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/01\/12\/higher-pay-eclipses-inflation-bite-for-some-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decrease<\/a>&nbsp;last year, according to the Department of Labor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Axelrod warns Biden, whose average approval rating is in the 30s, that any high-stepping and showboating would appear disingenuous, \u201cout of touch,\u201d and \u201coff key.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18633882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/biden-infrastructure-laughing-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18633882\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/biden-infrastructure-laughing-getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">ROBERTO SCHMIDT\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-message_actions__container c-message__actions\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cThe state of the union is stressed,\u201d&nbsp;Axelrod said of Biden\u2019s America. \u201cTo claim otherwise \u2014 to highlight the progress we have made, without fully acknowledging the hard road we have traveled and the distance we need to go \u2014 would seem off-key and out of touch. You simply cannot jawbone Americans into believing that things are better than they feel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Axelrod\u2019s advice comes as the Biden administration\u2019s perhaps greatest advocate, MSNBC, has also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WOsjm75zqK4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scolded<\/a>&nbsp;Biden for being out of touch with American workers heading into the 2022 midterms. MSNBC\u2019s self-identified \u201celitist\u201d and anchor Joe Scarborough told a panel this week that working class voters care little about elitist issues, such as global warming and transgenderism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s just face it. It\u2019s the elites, the wealthy, the people in the ivory towers. \u2026We have the luxury of being philosophical when we go in to vote. The majority of Americans \u2013 they are [just] trying to get by,\u201d Scarborough stated.&nbsp;\u201cWe the elites have the luxury of looking at it from 30 thousand feet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC is not the only outlet noting Biden\u2019s estranged&nbsp;political position. The establishment media have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/midterm-election\/2022\/02\/16\/report-democrat-internal-polling-reveals-republicans-winning-big-in-culture-war\/\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;two articles in two days&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-elections-pennsylvania-lifestyle-election-2020-fc79679ef54d850c0245f96dac37456c\">warning<\/a>&nbsp;Biden of huge losses in the midterms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_17699322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Joe.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17699322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Joe.jpeg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 26: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the situation in Afghanistan in the East Room of the White House on August 26, 2021 in Washington, DC. At least 12 American service members were killed on Thursday by suicide bomb attacks near the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 26: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the situation in Afghanistan in the East Room of the White House on August 26, 2021 in Washington, DC. At least 12 American service members were killed on Thursday by suicide bomb attacks near the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drew Angerer\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe trend lines in rural America are very, very bad. \u2026 Now, the brand is so toxic that people who are Democrats, the ones left, aren\u2019t fighting for the party,\u201d former rural North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp&nbsp;<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-elections-pennsylvania-lifestyle-election-2020-fc79679ef54d850c0245f96dac37456c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a>&nbsp;the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-message_actions__container c-message__actions\">\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/gettr.com\/user\/wendellhusebo\">Gettr<\/a>&nbsp;@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Axelrod, Barack Obama\u2019s former political consultant, penned a\u00a0New York Times\u00a0op-ed this week admonishing President Joe Biden to appear humble during the State of the Union address on March 1. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}