{"id":2288793,"date":"2024-07-03T16:30:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T20:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/milwaukee-mayor-calls-panic-over-biden-a-mistake-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T16:32:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T20:32:28","slug":"milwaukee-mayor-calls-panic-over-biden-a-mistake-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/milwaukee-mayor-calls-panic-over-biden-a-mistake-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee mayor calls panic over Biden a \u2018mistake\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fmilwaukee-mayor-calls-panic-over-biden-a-mistake-washington-examiner%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=2288793&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>The article discusses the response of the \u2063Milwaukee mayor, Cavalier Johnson, to the panic among Democrats following President Joe Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/for-biden-the-debate-stakes-couldnt-be-higher-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"For Biden, the debate stakes couldn\u2019t be higher - Washington Examiner\">poor debate performance<\/a>. Johnson criticized calls for Biden to step aside and emphasized the need to focus on Biden&#8217;s overall performance in office. Despite some Democrats \u2062expressing doubts about Biden&#8217;s ability to continue as the nominee, Johnson expressed full support for Biden and confidence in his victory in the upcoming election. The article also mentions a poll showing Trump widening \u2062his\u2062 lead against\u2064 Biden nationally, but Johnson remains steadfast in his support\u2063 for\u200d the president. Johnson believes the focus should\u2064 be on Trump and his falsehoods rather than panicking over Biden&#8217;s debate performance. He also takes a strong stance against Trump in the \u200clead-up to the Republican convention.  <\/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\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span 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updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-07-03T16:04:41-04:00\">July 3, 2024 4:04 pm<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1694456\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The mayor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/milwaukee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Milwaukee<\/a> chided Democrats on Wednesday for openly panicking over President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a> poor debate performance as Republicans prepare to nominate his 2024 rival, former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview two weeks before Republicans host what is expected to be a drama-free convention in his home city, Cavalier Johnson warned that calls for Biden to step aside were counterproductive and sowing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3069296\/biden-on-the-ropes-fight-political-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>sense of chaos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3069565\/trump-jumps-6-point-lead-debate-disaster-biden-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>TRUMP JUMPS OUT TO 6-POINT LEAD FOLLOWING BIDEN\u2019S DEBATE DISASTER: POLL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they\u2019re causing for more questions to come up,\u201d he told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cAnd I just don\u2019t think that\u2019s helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans had been preparing for the possibility that Trump would be sentenced to house arrest or even jail time just four days before the GOP convention following his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-big-biden-panic-the-president-is-trailing-but-perhaps-the-guilty-verdict-against-trump-will-save-him\/\" title=\"Biden&#039;s Challenge: Trailing President Hopes Trump Verdict Will Turn the Tide\">hush money conviction<\/a> in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the judge in that case pushed the date to September following a Monday Supreme Court ruling that Trump\u2019s lawyers hope will upend the verdict.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling was only one stroke of luck for Trump in recent days. Biden\u2019s debate on Thursday, in which he repeatedly lost his train of thought and struggled to challenge the former president, has sent Democrats into disarray as lawmakers privately, and in some cases publicly, question whether the 81-year-old Biden can carry on as their presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson echoed the defense of top Biden surrogates: that the president had a bad night but that his record will carry him to victory in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to look at the totality of his job, his performance in office, and he\u2019s had a pretty stellar performance as president of the United States,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Johnson also faulted members of his own party for thinking the debate flop was somehow not recoverable for the president.<\/p>\n<p>Two swing-district Democrats in the House declared the race over for Biden on Tuesday, while a wave of operatives and pundits have called for Biden to make way for a new nominee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they are making the same sort of mistake and looking at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/larry-oconnor-democrat-strategy-vote-now-debate-later\/\" title=\"Larry O\u2019Connor: Democrat Strategy: Vote Now, Debate Later\">bad debate performance<\/a> and not looking at the totality,\u201d Johnson said, citing the first presidential debate of President Barack Obama\u2019s reelection campaign in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Obama was widely perceived to have lost that debate but went on to win a second term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, Joe Biden is going to be our nominee,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cUnless Joe Biden were to come forward and say, \u2018Hey, I\u2019m not going to do this,\u2019 then folks should rally around him.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Joe Biden is greeted by, from right, Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI), Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson, and Milwaukee County Executive David Crowle as he arrives on Air Force One at Milwaukee International Airport Air National Guard Base in Milwaukee, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. (AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A <em>New York Times<\/em>-Siena College poll released on Wednesday, among the first since the debate, showed Trump widening his lead against Biden nationally to 6 points, 49%-43%, yet Johnson, a Milwaukee native who ascended to the mayor\u2019s office in 2021, left no ambiguity about where he stood on the president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI absolutely, 100% support Joe Biden. He will be our nominee, and he will win in November,\u201d he said, noting that Biden proved in 2020 he can beat Trump at the top of the ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson joins other Democrats voicing confidence in Biden even as his campaign attempts to hold back a partywide revolt. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) became the first House Democrat to call on Biden to step down on Tuesday, while his colleagues are said to be circulating a letter that would ask him to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Party leaders have so far stood by Biden but in some cases called it reasonable that Democrats would want to assess the president\u2019s fitness for office.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, for his part, believes the party should be talking about Trump. He worked to bring the convention to Milwaukee, seeing it as an economic windfall for the city, but suggested the freakout over Biden obscured what he described as a steady stream of falsehoods from Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, if folks want to talk about the debate, I mean, President Biden may not have had a pretty delivery, but he did speak with substance, and he did tell the truth where Donald Trump was clocked in at telling a lie every 90 seconds,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has taken a more aggressive posture against Trump in the lead-up to the convention, during which the former president is expected to name his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-backed-bail-fund-freed-alleged-domestic-abuser-now-accused-of-murder\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris-Backed Bail Fund Freed Alleged Domestic Abuser Now Accused Of Murder\">vice presidential nominee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight back at ya, buddy,\u201d Johnson retorted to reporters after Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3048964\/wisconsin-rally-trump-horrible-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>reportedly called<\/a> Milwaukee a \u201chorrible city,\u201d a remark Trump denies making. Johnson subsequently called the former president\u2019s insistence that he chose Milwaukee as the GOP host city a \u201ccomplete fabrication,\u201d crediting the decision to the Republican National Committee alone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump won Wisconsin, one of three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/never-trumpers-fan-out-to-bolster-bidens-blue-wall\/\" title=\"Anti-Trump supporters spread out to strengthen Biden&#039;s Democratic stronghold\">blue wall states<\/a> that delivered him the White House in 2016, by little more than 20,000 votes before losing it by nearly the same margin four years later.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are expected to nominate Biden in a virtual roll call vote, perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3066269\/dnc-denies-early-convention-roll-call-replace-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>as soon as July<\/a>, but the mounting pressure on Biden has raised the possibility of a contested Democratic convention in Chicago later this summer.<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1694456\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1694456\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee mayor criticizes Democrats for panicking over Biden&#8217;s debate performance and urges them to focus on the president&#8217;s overall record instead. He believes calls for Biden to step aside are counterproductive and that the party should rally around him. Despite Biden&#8217;s poor debate showing, the mayor remains confident in his ability to win in November and dismisses the idea of replacing him as the nominee. 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