{"id":2358576,"date":"2024-10-23T21:01:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-insider-says-we-gotta-lock-joe-up-after-biden-miscue-threatens-to-hurt-harris-report\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T21:04:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T01:04:06","slug":"dem-insider-says-we-gotta-lock-joe-up-after-biden-miscue-threatens-to-hurt-harris-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-insider-says-we-gotta-lock-joe-up-after-biden-miscue-threatens-to-hurt-harris-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Insider Says &#8216;We Gotta Lock Joe Up&#8217; After Biden Miscue Threatens to Hurt Harris: Report"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fdem-insider-says-we-gotta-lock-joe-up-after-biden-miscue-threatens-to-hurt-harris-report%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=2358576&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>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/laid-off-twitter-employees-sue-musk-over-severance-pay\/\" title=\"Laid-Off Twitter Employees Sue Musk Over Severance Pay\">recent statement made<\/a> by President Joe Biden \u2064has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jimmy-kimmel-cries-masking-on-the-rise-and-trans-alpha\/\" title=\"Jimmy Kimmel sheds tears, mask usage surges, and Trans &quot;Alpha&quot; emerges\">sparked significant conversation<\/a> among Democrats, with some viewing him as increasingly irrelevant. During an appearance in New Hampshire, Biden made a controversial remark regarding former President Donald Trump, saying, \u201cWe gotta lock him up,\u201d which he\u200b later attempted to clarify as a political statement. Reactions to Biden&#8217;s comments varied within the Democratic party, with some expressing concern that such statements could be harmful to Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s campaign, while others suggested that\u200b Biden&#8217;s influence is waning, indicating \u2062that &#8220;no one is listening&#8221;\u2063 to him \u2063anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Media responses have been critical, with \u200dFox News\u2064 highlighting a\u2062 CNN analyst who labeled \u200cBiden\u2019s remarks as &#8220;profoundly stupid.&#8221; This led to a swift\u2064 response from the Trump campaign, accusing Biden of\u2064 politically persecuting opponents. Additionally,\u200d an\u2063 Op-Ed\u200d suggested Biden&#8217;s presidency \u2064may be\u200b ending as an &#8220;irrelevant afterthought,&#8221; reflecting the diminished regard\u200c for his leadership within his own party.\u200b this situation\u2064 reflects the broader challenges facing Biden as he progresses toward the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/humiliating-mistakes-quickly-spotted-as-dems-release-2024-platform-theyre-accidentally-telling-the-truth\/\" title=\"Humiliating Mistakes Quickly Spotted as Dems Release 2024 Platform: &#039;They\u2019re Accidentally Telling the Truth&#039;\">upcoming election amidst concerns<\/a> about his effectiveness and relevance in political discourse.  <\/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\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> <script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A recent gaffe from President Joe Biden has become a window into a world in which some Democrats are irreverent toward the commander-in-chief while others view him as irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Invisible&rdquo; was the word used by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/invisible-joe-biden-disappears-kamala-harris-campaign-1973043\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsweek<\/a> for Biden, as he &ldquo;disappears from Kamala Harris&rsquo; campaign.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Biden appeared briefly Tuesday when he spoke about former President Donald Trump in a New Hampshire appearance, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bidens-lock-him-up-remark-about-trump-profoundly-stupid-thing-say-cnn-analyst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I know this sounds bizarre. It sounds like if I said this five years ago, you&rsquo;d lock me up. We got to lock him up,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gotta-lock-biden-drops-dangerous-statement-trump-election-gets-closer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the attempt to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/battleground-senate-dem-stuns-aligning-trump-dissing-biden-telling-new-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rephrase<\/a> that as he added, &ldquo;politically lock him up. Lock him out. That&rsquo;s what we have to do.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Alex Thompson, a journalist with Axios, noted two different takes on the Democratic reaction to Biden&rsquo;s comments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Noting this could be politically unhelpful to Harris, a former Biden admin official texts me: &ldquo;we gotta lock Joe up.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/juzeUrhM1H\">https:\/\/t.co\/juzeUrhM1H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexThomp\/status\/1848857534070985071?\">October 22, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Noting this could be politically unhelpful to Harris, a former Biden admin official texts me: &lsquo;we gotta lock Joe up,&rsquo;&rdquo; Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlexThomp\/status\/1848857534070985071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A counterpoint from a current Biden admin official: &lsquo;For better or worse, no one is listening to him anymore and his words have little power and less reach. It&rsquo;s a blip. Gone in any meaningful way by mid-day tomorrow if it makes it that long,&rsquo;&rdquo; Thompson also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlexThomp\/status\/1848859559882055846\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A counterpoint from a current Biden admin official: &ldquo;For better or worse, no one is listening to him anymore and his words have little power and less reach. It&rsquo;s a blip. Gone in any meaningful way by mid-day tomorrow if it makes it that long.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexThomp\/status\/1848859559882055846?\">October 22, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But Fox News noted that over at CNN, the remark brought a cringing reaction.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;More than anything else, it was such a profoundly stupid thing for the president to say,&rdquo; CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-campaign-turns-clip-kamalas-nbc-interview-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump campaign<\/a> was quick to respond.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Joe Biden just admitted the truth: He and Kamala&rsquo;s plan all along has been to politically persecute their opponent President Trump because they can&rsquo;t beat him fair and square,&rdquo; Trump campaign representative Karoline Leavitt said, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/22\/us-news\/biden-calls-for-trump-to-be-jailed-14-days-before-2024-election-we-gotta-lock-him-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Harris-Biden Admin is the real threat to democracy. We call on Kamala Harris to condemn Joe Biden&rsquo;s disgraceful remark,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>In an Op-Ed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/3200340\/joe-biden-will-be-remembered-laughingstock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Examiner<\/a>, Zachary Faria said the comment reported by Thompson that disparaged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kamala-harris-nbc-interview-ends-floundering-joe-biden-question\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden<\/a> is a telling summary of the Biden era.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That is a comment made about the current U.S. president, made by a member of his own administration. &lsquo;No one is listening to him anymore, and his words have little power and less reach.&rsquo; It was clear since he dropped out of the race that Biden was going to be an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/beltway-confidential\/3137939\/biden-absentee-president-another-five-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">absentee<\/a> president, but to have people who work for him admit that now &lsquo;no one is listening to him&rsquo; is a damning indictment of Biden when he is still the one ostensibly in charge of the executive branch for another three months,&rdquo; Faria wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Biden was pushed out of the race by his own party because no one thought he could win re-election. He was undermined in favor of his <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">incompetent vice president<\/a>, who might just lose anyway, and now members of his own administration admit no one cares what Biden says anymore,&rdquo; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In his four years in office, Biden has been a failure and a loser, and he will now finish out his term as an irrelevant afterthought.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\">  <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> <label>* Name<\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> <\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> <label>* <\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> <\/div>\n<p> <label>* Message<\/label> <br \/> <textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\">  <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Newsweek described Biden as &#8220;invisible,&#8221; noting his absence from Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign. He made a short appearance on Tuesday to discuss former President Donald Trump, stating, \u201cI know this sounds bizarre&#8230; We got to lock him up,\u201d later clarifying he meant &#8220;politically lock him up.&#8221; Axios journalist Alex Thompson shared differing views on the Democratic response to Biden&#8217;s remarks, with one former official suggesting they need to &#8220;lock Joe up,&#8221; while a current official claimed that no one pays attention to Biden anymore and his comments lack impact. CNN&#8217;s Elliot Williams criticized the president&#8217;s statement as profoundly foolish. The Trump campaign quickly reacted, accusing Biden and Harris of politically targeting their opponent because they can&#8217;t defeat him fairly. In an Op-Ed for the Washington Examiner, Zachary Faria argued that the admission from within Biden\u2019s administration reflects poorly on his presidency and suggests he is seen as ineffective and irrelevant as he nears the end of his term<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2358577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Harris-and-Biden-6.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,40264,4021,38498,5894],"class_list":["post-2358576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-election-impact","tag-harris","tag-insider-report","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Harris-and-Biden-6.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358576","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=2358576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2358577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}