{"id":2295071,"date":"2024-07-15T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-just-the-rnc-trump-casts-a-shadow-over-the-democrats-too-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T07:07:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T11:07:06","slug":"not-just-the-rnc-trump-casts-a-shadow-over-the-democrats-too-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-just-the-rnc-trump-casts-a-shadow-over-the-democrats-too-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Not just the RNC: Trump casts a shadow over the Democrats, too &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fnot-just-the-rnc-trump-casts-a-shadow-over-the-democrats-too-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=2295071&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 upcoming\u200c Republican\u2063 National \u2062Convention where former President\u200b Donald Trump is set to accept the\u2064 Republican nomination for the third time. However,\u2062 the\u2064 focus\u2062 has been on \u2063President Joe Biden, who has been facing problems within the Democratic party since his disastrous\u200d debate performance. The article highlights that despite claims from the\u200c Biden campaign that the race is close, Trump remains a \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lebron-james-is-the-most-hated-player-in-the-nba-according-to-new-study\/\" title=\"LeBron James Is The Most Hated Player In The NBA, According To New Study\">polarizing figure<\/a>\u200c and is\u200c keeping the\u200c race competitive. Democrats are shown to be\u2063 concerned about the \u200bpossibility of losing to Trump, believing that \u200dhe poses \u2062a unique threat to democracy. The article concludes that \u200dDemocrats\u200b are looking for more assurances about beating Trump, as the recent events have raised doubts\u2062 about \u200dBiden&#8217;s ability to win against him \u2063in the upcoming election.  <\/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 class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\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\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">\n<div class=\"tdb-search-form-inner\"><input class=\"tdb-head-search-form-input\" placeholder=\" \" type=\"text\" value name=\"s\" autocomplete=\"off\"><button class=\"wpb_button wpb_btn-inverse btn tdb-head-search-form-btn\" title=\"Search\" type=\"submit\"><span>Search<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/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<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Not just the RNC: Trump casts a shadow over the Democrats, too<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> <a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/w-james-antle-iii\/\">W. James Antle III<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-07-15T06:30:00-04:00\">July 15, 2024 6:30 am<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1702194\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>MILWAUKEE \u2014 <\/strong>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3082152\/trump-arrives-in-milwaukee-for-rnc-convention-after-rally-shooting\/\">set to accept <\/a>the Republican nomination for the third <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-iowa-caucuses-storied-history-of-voting-glitches-and-problems\/\" title=\"The Iowa caucuses have a long history of voting glitches and issues\">straight presidential race<\/a>, but for most of the past two weeks \u2014\u00a0until the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3082172\/biden-lowering-temperature-politics-oval-office-address\/\">attempt on Trump\u2019s life<\/a> in Pennsylvania \u2014 the focus has been on President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Biden will be a major theme of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republican-national-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Republican National Convention<\/a>. But it\u2019s the Democrats who have been giving Biden problems ever since his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/magazine-features\/3068833\/bidens-post-debate-collapse\/\">disastrous debate performance<\/a>. The truth is, however, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3081453\/trump-supporters-galvanized-response-failed-assassination-attempt\/\">man of the hour<\/a> in Milwaukee is the source of Biden\u2019s problems here, too.<\/p>\n<p>For months, the Biden campaign has tried to make clear to anyone who would listen that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/daily-memo\/3080366\/its-still-close\/\">presidential race is close<\/a>. They claim to have their own polling showing Biden within the margin of error of Trump. Some of the public polls tell the same story: Trump led by just 1 point in the latest Fox News poll, by 2 in NBC News\u2019s. NPR\/PBS\/Marist actually had Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3080908\/biden-edges-out-trump-in-post-debate-poll\/\">ahead by 2<\/a> after days of Democratic lawmakers saying he should drop out.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>RealClearPolitics <\/em>polling average has Trump leading nationally by 2.7 points, down from his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/president\/general\/2024\/trump-vs-biden\">post-debate peak<\/a> of 3.4 points, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3080407\/republican-national-convention-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>heading into the GOP convention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is himself a deeply polarizing figure. His favorability rating remains underwater <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/favorability\/trump-vs-biden\">by 12.6 points<\/a>, though that is still a bit better than Biden. That is enough to keep the race competitive.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have never liked hearing that the race is close. They lost just about all patience with that argument after the debate. Why? Again because of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>To Democrats, losing to Trump is unacceptable. Many of them believed he was a spent political force after losing to Biden in 2020 or, if not then, certainly after Jan. 6. Whatever else happens in Milwaukee, that will once again be shown to be untrue.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats often claim, and many of them to varying degrees genuinely believe, that Trump poses a unique threat to democracy. Some of those arguments may be more muted after Trump was wounded by an assassin\u2019s bullet. But the feeling won\u2019t go away.<\/p>\n<p>If democracy is on the ballot, then being within the margin of error of Trump, who outperformed his poll numbers in both 2016 and 2020, isn\u2019t good enough. Democracy can\u2019t be a jump ball.<\/p>\n<p>No answer Biden gave in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3071696\/biden-wont-commit-cognitive-test-abc-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>post-debate cleanup interview<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/george-stephanopoulos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>George Stephanopoulos<\/a> upset Democrats and Never Trumpers more than when the president said how he would feel if he lost the rematch with his predecessor: \u201cI\u2019ll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the good as job as I know I can do, that\u2019s what this is about.\u201d (Some transcribed Biden as saying \u201cgoodest,\u201d but the grammar wasn\u2019t what bothered Democrats.)<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are looking for greater assurances that they will beat Trump than Biden and his top aides have ever given them. They perhaps want more certainty about defeating Trump than any Democratic campaign realistically can give them. But the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-floor-debates-state-of-the-foreign-aid-bills\/\" title=\"Discussion on the House floor regarding the status of foreign aid bills\">debate opened<\/a> the door for someone to try.<\/p>\n<p>An NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/democrats-fret-political-fallout-trump-rally-shooting-rcna161789\">report <\/a>detailing Democratic panic in the wake of the assassination attempt against Trump quoted a party strategist saying it was \u201cso bizarre\u201d that \u201cmany people on my side are firmly in the camp of [Biden] can\u2019t win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What Democrats most want to believe is that the top of their ticket can\u2019t lose, or at least that Trump can\u2019t possibly win. They are not currently seeing data that comforts them on that score.<\/p>\n<p>Even in a poll like NRP\/PBS\/Marist where Biden appears to be winning, he is probably losing. Biden\u2019s lead is within the poll\u2019s margin of error. More importantly, absent changes in the battleground state polling, he can win the popular vote by 2 points and still lose the Electoral College \u2014 and the presidency \u2014 to Trump. Hillary Clinton edged Trump in that metric by 2.1 points in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s camp keeps trying to persuade Democrats that the race is close, that voters won\u2019t really start focusing on the campaign until after the conventions, that it is still a long way until Election Day, that they should have more confidence in their battleground state get-out-the-vote operations than Trump\u2019s, and that only modest polling errors would erase any Republican lead just like that illusory \u201cred wave\u201d two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>These arguments are plausible. Yet faced with the prospect of a second Trump term, Democrats no longer have the patience to find out if they are correct.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Biden, Trump is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-education-nominee-ignored-sexual-assault-allegations-lawsuit-charges\/\" title=\"Biden Education Nominee Ignored Sexual Assault Allegations, Lawsuit Charges\">double-edged sword<\/a>. He\u2019s controversial enough to keep Biden in the race. But Trump is also why Biden\u2019s party cannot tolerate the possibility of losing.<\/p>\n<p>Trump looms large not just over the GOP, but both major parties.<\/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_1702194\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1702194\"}});<\/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>Former President Donald Trump is about to accept the Republican nomination for the third time, but the focus has been on President Joe Biden. Biden has been facing challenges from the Democrats since his poor debate performance. The Biden campaign has been trying to show that the race is close, with some polls indicating a tight race. However, Trump remains a polarizing figure, and his favorability rating is slightly better than Biden&#8217;s. Democrats are not happy with the idea of losing to Trump, as they see him as a threat to democracy. They want assurances that they will beat Trump, but the data is not comforting them. Biden&#8217;s camp is trying to convince Democrats that the race is close and that they should have confidence in their campaign operations. However, Democrats are losing patience and are not willing to take the risk of a second Trump term. Trump is a divisive figure who is keeping Biden in the race, but he is also the reason why Democrats cannot afford to lose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2659,"featured_media":2295072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trump_shadow_democrats.webp.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3685,6915,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2295071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democrats","tag-rnc","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trump_shadow_democrats.webp.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295071","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\/2659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2295072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}