{"id":2243998,"date":"2024-05-14T06:35:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T10:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-incompetence-is-outstripping-voters-fear-of-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T06:40:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T10:40:02","slug":"bidens-incompetence-is-outstripping-voters-fear-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-incompetence-is-outstripping-voters-fear-of-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s Failures Surpass Trump Fear"},"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\">10<\/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%2Fbidens-incompetence-is-outstripping-voters-fear-of-trump%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=2243998&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>Summary:\u2062 President\u2063 Biden&#8217;s potential withdrawal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-stefanik-garlands-comment-on-cuomo-corruption-not-good-enough\/\" title=\"Rep. Stefanik: Garland\u2019s comment on Cuomo corruption \u2018not good enough\u2019\">military aid<\/a>\u2064 to Israel if it took action against Hamas has sparked reactions and highlighted divisions within the Democratic Party. The\u200b shift in Biden&#8217;s stance has\u2062 led to concerns among\u200b voters, with some expressing dissatisfaction. The situation underscores Biden&#8217;s leadership challenges and the growing support for\u2063 Trump due to perceived failures in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">foreign policy<\/a> and other key issues.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Last week, President Biden said he would withdraw military aid to Israel if it commenced military operations to go into Rafah and go after Hamas. There were many reactions to this announcement because it seemed to perfectly encapsulate the incoherent Israel policy the Biden administration has been developing since Hamas\u2019 brutal attack last October that touched off the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, the American people are broadly supportive of Israel and the moral justification for this war. Lest anyone forget, Hamas is still holding American citizens hostage at this very moment. On the other, the hard-left grassroots that are an important part of the Democrat Party\u2019s coalition are radically pro-Palestinian and eager to engage in street violence domestically to prove the point. It\u2019s also worth noting that the hard-left shock troops aren\u2019t just emblematic of the party\u2019s activist heart \u2014 their efforts to destabilize colleges and worse are being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/people-setting-america-on-fire-soros-tides-wespac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">funded<\/a> by George Soros, the Tides Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and those that hold the purse strings for billions of dollars of funding for Democrats and their lefty causes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-968109334\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-74b8304fb0a09dd31bafea977ec3b28c fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-74b8304fb0a09dd31bafea977ec3b28c\"><\/div>\n<p>The issue is drastically polarizing the Democratic coalition. For instance, normally America\u2019s celebrities are engaged in overt social media campaigning for Democrats six months out from an election. Well, here\u2019s a video of Jewish actor Michael Rapaport, an avowed Trump hater, unendorsing Biden in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelRapaport\/status\/1788541793430057212\">characteristically profane fashion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, last week, rapper Macklemore released a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/macklemore\/status\/1788814336611467523\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">banger of an old-school hip-hop track<\/a> in support of the Palestinian protests, which isn\u2019t a huge surprise given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/macklemore-apologizes-for-alleged-anti-semitic-costume-97527\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his antisemitic bona fides<\/a>. (Hope the ADL feels good about <a href=\"https:\/\/seattle.adl.org\/mackelmore-what-i-know-about-the-man-and-his-apology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defending Macklemore now<\/a>!) Anyway, Macklemore\u2019s song is primarily notable for one verse: \u201cThe blood is on your hands, Biden\/ we can see it all\/ and f-ck no\/ I\u2019m not votin\u2019 for you in the fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it seems pretty tawdry to look at a conflict where children are dying half a world away and view it through the lens of politics. However, examining this viewpoint may be necessary because politics is unmistakably determining policy here. Since the beginning of the Gaza war, the Biden administration has done little but try to follow the shifting political winds, hoping to find some Goldilocks zone between extremes in his coalition \u2014 and this is all being done with an eye toward November.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DYShor\/status\/1788726510896943176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plainly flip-flopped on his support of Israel<\/a>, his administration is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\/status\/1789713305231352152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">making up reasons to withdraw support<\/a>, there are no principles here, there\u2019s no attempt to articulate and stake out a position, and there\u2019s no attempt to <em>lead<\/em>. Meanwhile, the Gaza conflict has significantly disrupted global shipping and threatens to turn into a full war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5a99fbec1e0df1092313f18a0b25f3d9 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5a99fbec1e0df1092313f18a0b25f3d9\"><\/div>\n<p>Like almost every other major challenge of his presidency, nay his entire political career, Biden\u2019s approach has been defined by his incompetence. \u201cI think he has been wrong on nearly every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-headlong-rush-to-surrender\/\" title=\"A Headlong Rush to Surrender\">major foreign policy<\/a> and national security issue over the past four decades,\u201d to quote Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Of course, when Biden was a senator and vice president, his terrible judgment wasn\u2019t nearly as consequential. Now that he\u2019s president, it\u2019s a different story.<\/p>\n<p>Biden wonders why he\u2019s down in the polls. Biden\u2019s incompetence on Israel and beyond is so evident that it\u2019s far outstripping voters\u2019 fear of the chaos that might accompany another Trump presidency.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Panic!<\/h2>\n<p>What\u2019s more is that you can see the panic in real time. Even the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-gives-impassioned-speech-urging-conservatives-to-take-key-steps-to-win-back-country\/\" title=\"Cruz Gives Impassioned Speech Urging Conservatives To Take Key Steps To Win Back Country\">compliant media<\/a> are noticing. \u201cBiden\u2019s nuanced position [on Israel] has created different fault lines of division within his own Democratic Party,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/biden-faces-new-democratic-divisions-israel-shift-rcna151580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">observes NBC News<\/a>. \u201cNuanced\u201d is an odd way of describing what Biden is doing, especially since NBC\u2019s own reporting indicates voters don\u2019t view it that way:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s starting to seem as if he is supporting the wrong side,\u201d Dovid Jacobowitz, a Democrat from Allegheny County in Pennsylvania, told NBC News. Jacobowitz wouldn\u2019t say if he\u2019ll vote for Biden in November. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nasir Raza, an undecided voter from Scottsdale, Arizona, who voted for Biden in 2020, said the president\u2019s shift in position on Israel \u201cmay be too late for a lot of people that I know,\u201d but added: \u201cI may yet still vote for Joe Biden if I see a complete cease-fire, if I see a hope for Palestinians to go on in there, to have their own rights and the homeland for themselves.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously, this is causing tremendous consternation among the pundit class, whose entire reason for being is opposing Trump. Jonah Goldberg has been quite vocal about his opposition to Donald Trump for many years, but for him to even acknowledge Biden is losing support results in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Timodc\/status\/1788379592341836171\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">angry anti-Trump pundits chastising those voters<\/a> for not supporting Biden in spite of his terrible Israel policy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-7c28b02c54a7928b38ec576981b0fae1 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-7c28b02c54a7928b38ec576981b0fae1\"><\/div>\n<p>On some level, the denial really is astonishing. Biden hasn\u2019t led in the polls against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/president\/general\/2024\/trump-vs-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump since last <em>September<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em>Insisting the voters are wrong to be concerned at this point is just asking to lose. Moreover, it ignores the possibility that voters are making a pretty rational choice.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Trump presidency was a lot of chaos. Some of that was Trump\u2019s fault, but much of the chaos that surrounds him \u2014 such as the Russia hoax and the current spate of absurd and politically motivated criminal charges against him \u2014 is unfairly manufactured controversy. And on the issue dominating the news right now, foreign policy, Trump legitimately excelled. <\/p>\n<p>The Abraham Accords achieved by the Trump administration were such a diplomatic success at building peace in the region that when Iran launched missiles at Israel last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/arab-states-iran-israel-air-missile-drone-attack-saudi-jordan-2024-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jordan and Saudi Arabia helped shoot them down<\/a>. That kind of collaboration between Israel and Arab states, let alone in the middle of a conflict with the Palestinians, would have been unthinkable not that many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, Trump was the first president since Carter not to start any new foreign wars \u2014 and he managed to maintain relative peace exhibiting serious strength against American adversaries, such as going after Russians in Syria and killing Iranian terror chief Qasem Soleimani. <\/p>\n<p>And through all this, he was mocked by D.C.\u2019s profoundly terrible foreign policy establishment, not to mention our free-riding European allies. Remember when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2018\/09\/25\/trump-accused-germany-becoming-totally-dependent-russian-energy-un-germans-just-smirked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump went to the UN and told the Germans not to become too dependent on Russian energy<\/a>, and \u201cGerman Foreign Minister Heiko Maas could be seen smirking alongside his colleagues\u201d? Well, one new Ukraine war and an exploded Nordstream pipeline later, both of which happened on Joe Biden\u2019s watch, who\u2019s smirking now?<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cui Bono?<\/h2>\n<p>But foreign policy is just the start of bad news for Biden. There are other very significant issues right now, chiefly the economy and immigration, where a rational voter not bound by ideology would easily prefer Trump\u2019s track record in the wake of Biden\u2019s demonstrable failures. Indeed, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/13\/us\/politics\/biden-trump-battleground-poll.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most recent New York Times poll<\/a>, which has Trump leading in five of the six key swing states, notes that \u201cMr. Trump\u2019s strength is largely thanks to gains among young, Black and Hispanic voters.\u201d Not exactly the typical GOP demographic.<\/p>\n<p>It seems a lot of voters don\u2019t recall Trump\u2019s presidency being as chaotic or miserable or, based on who\u2019s supporting him in the polls, as racist as his opponents are convinced it was. Indeed, one way of judging Biden\u2019s competence is simply a matter of <em>cui bono<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a member of institutional Washington, the government gravy train is rolling along, and the fine folks at The Atlantic Council et al. have their fingers on the levers of foreign policy, and it\u2019s all working out for them. The rest of the country is scared and not better off than it was during Trump\u2019s presidency \u2014 or they were at least until Covid hysteria shut down the country. (Even now, somewhat incredibly, pro-Biden influencers think it\u2019s a mark against Trump that he was trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1790020696644477270\">keep America\u2019s schools open during Covid<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, in retrospect, Trump\u2019s presidency looks like the inverse of Biden\u2019s: Voters outside Washington felt safer and more prosperous, and the people who most acutely felt the pain and chaos of his presidency were inside the Beltway.  <\/p>\n<p>But given Biden\u2019s obvious age and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-getting-harder-to-hide-theres-something-not-quite-right-with-biden\/\" title=\"It\u2019s Getting Harder to Hide There\u2019s Something \u201cNot Quite Right\u201d With Biden\">mental acuity issues<\/a>, Democrats were probably hoping they could once again stuff Biden in the basement and run a campaign focused on Trump and the circus around him. They might have gotten away with that if the economy weren\u2019t in bad shape and the world wasn\u2019t on fire. However, things are a mess, the buck now stops with the current resident of the White House, and voters need a positive reason to reelect the guy currently in office. <\/p>\n<p>Based on how he\u2019s handling Israel, along with every other big issue he\u2019s faced, his incompetence is now the biggest issue in this election \u2014 and voters simply have a hard time believing at this point that Biden\u2019s even capable of rising to the occasion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-68c7cc7978d9bd4ef89a8ef14d157906 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-68c7cc7978d9bd4ef89a8ef14d157906\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden&#8217;s recent statement on potentially withholding military aid to Israel if it entered Rafah to combat Hamas sparked varied reactions. This move exemplified the unclear Israel policy evolving within the Biden administration since Hamas&#8217; prior aggressive actions last October<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":2243999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BidenIsrael-1024x548.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2243998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BidenIsrael-1024x548.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243998","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\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2243999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}