{"id":1712410,"date":"2022-10-26T16:50:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T20:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1712410"},"modified":"2022-10-26T16:50:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T20:50:39","slug":"as-dems-face-grim-midterm-outlook-biden-hopes-appearance-on-jay-lenos-car-show-will-win-over-republican-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-dems-face-grim-midterm-outlook-biden-hopes-appearance-on-jay-lenos-car-show-will-win-over-republican-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"As Dems Face Grim Midterm Outlook, Biden Hopes Appearance on Jay Leno\u2019s Car Show Will Win Over Republican Voters"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fas-dems-face-grim-midterm-outlook-biden-hopes-appearance-on-jay-lenos-car-show-will-win-over-republican-voters%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=1712410&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 dir=\"ltr\">President Joe Biden hopes his appearance on an upcoming episode of<em> Jay Leno&#8217;s Garage<\/em> will appeal to &#8220;some parts of the Republican base&#8221; and hit the brakes on increasingly gloomy predictions for his party&#8217;s performance in the midterms, according to a <em>New York Times<\/em> report.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The episode, airing Wednesday, comes less than two weeks before Election Day as Biden tries to appeal to &#8220;a country of car lovers,&#8221; the <em>Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/26\/us\/politics\/biden-cars.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;You know, he&#8217;s a good driver,&#8221; Leno said. &#8220;He still has a Corvette; he can drive a stick. I mean, most presidents are not car guys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Even as Biden makes last-minute efforts to steer his party away from a midterm crash, recent polling <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/gop-polls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/gop-polls\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1666897100723000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1UThUXJ8uSt3IFhuaWOhdX\">shows<\/a> Republicans have an 80-in-100 chance of flipping the House, according to FiveThirtyEight.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">During the episode, Biden promotes electric cars, a vehicle Democrats have embraced in recent years. Rep. Tim Ryan (D., Ohio), who is running in Ohio&#8217;s Senate race, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/tim-ryan-says-americans-need-to-give-up-gas-cars-as-he-drives-around-ohio-in-gas-guzzlers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/tim-ryan-says-americans-need-to-give-up-gas-cars-as-he-drives-around-ohio-in-gas-guzzlers\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1666897100723000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0S41IQ0CGDzRiZEzl_tUB4\">said Americans need to give up<\/a> gas-powered cars. Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer (D.), who is seeking reelection this year, is <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/michigans-gretchen-whitmer-directs-236-million-to-electric-battery-exec-who-has-already-lost-taxpayers-millions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/michigans-gretchen-whitmer-directs-236-million-to-electric-battery-exec-who-has-already-lost-taxpayers-millions\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1666897100723000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0ZBG-wM3g0TAK-Poo2j-NX\">granting<\/a> $236 million in funds to an electric car battery executive who has already lost millions of taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;You all know I&#8217;m a car guy,&#8221; Biden said at an automobile event in Detroit last month. &#8220;Just looking at them and driving them, they just give me a sense of optimism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Biden allegedly hits 118 miles per hour in his 1967 Corvette Stingray during the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden hopes his appearance on an upcoming episode of Jay Leno&#8217;s Garage will appeal to &#8220;some parts of the Republican base&#8221; and hit the brakes on increasingly gloomy predictions for his party&#8217;s performance in the midterms, according to a New York Times report.<br \/>\nThe post As Dems Face Grim Midterm Outlook, Biden Hopes Appearance on Jay Leno\u2019s Car Show Will Win Over Republican Voters appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1467,"featured_media":1712413,"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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/1712410","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\/1467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}