{"id":1705048,"date":"2022-10-21T06:06:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T10:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1705048"},"modified":"2022-10-21T06:33:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T10:33:53","slug":"dems-already-making-excuses-for-upcoming-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-already-making-excuses-for-upcoming-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Already Making Excuses for Upcoming Midterms"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fdems-already-making-excuses-for-upcoming-midterms%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=1705048&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1236440967.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>With three weeks to go until the 2022 midterm elections, things are so bad for Democrats that they\u2019re already getting their stories together on who and what to blame for what many pollsters are predicting will be a bloodbath for the party.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama, who hit the campaign trail in a desperate attempt to stem the losses, was brutal in his assessment of what\u2019s dragging Democrats down, saying they\u2019re a \u201cbuzzkill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we\u2019re talking about putting together \u2026 durable majorities, we have to be able to speak to everybody about their common interests,\u201d Obama said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/15\/barack-obama-blasts-cancel-culture-calls-dems-buzzkill\/\">interview<\/a> with \u201cPod Save America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere we get into trouble sometimes is when we try to suggest that some groups are more \u2014 because they historically have been victimized more, that somehow they have a status that\u2019s different than other people,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that we\u2019re going around scolding folks if they don\u2019t use exactly the right phrase, or that identity politics becomes the principal lens through which we view our various political challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James Carville, the chief strategist for Bill Clinton, was famed for framing the 1992 presidential race with just four words: \u201cIt\u2019s the economy, stupid.\u201d He, too, says Democrats are far too focused on abortion while Americans care most about inflation, gas and food prices, rampant crime, and the porous southern border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of these consultants think if all we do is run abortion spots that will win for us. I don\u2019t think so,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-ragin-cajun-warns-dems-abortion-aint-a-winning-issue\">said<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a good issue. But if you just sit there and they\u2019re pummeling you on crime and pummeling you on the cost of living, you\u2019ve got to be more aggressive than just yelling \u2018abortion\u2019 every other word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carville is spot on. Democrats thought they had been gifted a winning issue when the Supreme Court overturned <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, the 1973 landmark decision that deemed abortion a constitutionally protected right across America.<\/p>\n<p>And Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) says Democrats are spending too much time moaning about abortion rights and far too little on one of his key issues, economic inequality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe it can be the only issue,\u201d Sanders told \u201cCNN Tonight with Jake Tapper\u201d in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when we have an economy in which the wealthiest people, the billionaire class, are getting much, much richer while working people are struggling to put food on the table, it goes without saying that we have to focus on the economy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Lux, a Democratic strategist and Clinton White House adviser, told <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/3695023-democrats-ready-for-midterm-blame-game\/\">The Hill<\/a> he agrees with Obama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the language police stuff gets a little silly, but I would also say that in the focus groups that I have done and the polling that I have been working on \u2026 voters are not mostly focused on that stuff. That\u2019s what Twitter is focused on,\u201d he said. \u201cMy sense of what voters are focused on is economic issues, abortion, stuff that really matters to them and their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, wrong on abortion, but right on the other issues.<\/p>\n<p>Americans are keyed in inflation, which has forced more than half of working Americans to consider getting a second job to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout 38% of workers have looked for a second job, while an additional 14% have plans to do so, according to a survey of more than 1,000 full-time US employees by Qualtrics International Inc., which makes software used by over 16,000 organizations,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-10-19\/inflation-forces-over-50-of-americans-to-consider-a-side-hustle?leadSource=uverify%20wall\">Bloomberg News<\/a> reported. \u201cAt the same time, 18% of working adults said they had moved to an area with a lower cost of living to cut expenses, and another 13% plan to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why? \u201cAbout 70% say their pay isn\u2019t keeping up with rising expenses. A recent Brookings Institution study estimated that the current spike in prices means it will now cost more than $300,000 to raise a child to age 17, up $26,000 since inflation took hold,\u201d Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With three weeks to go until the 2022 midterm elections, things are so bad for Democrats that they\u2019re already getting their stories together on who and what to blame for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1425609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705048","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=1705048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1425609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}