Feb. 13, 2020
Permission to republish original opeds and cartoons granted.
Joe Biden is the Jeb Bush of the 2020 Democratic primary
Joe Biden is the
Jeb Bush of the 2020 Democratic primary, a candidate who the kingmakers of the
Democratic Party attempted to put into the White House so that they could
control the levers of power much like Jeb in 2016. The problem that Democratic
leaders have is that Biden has never been successful electorally outside of
Delaware, and has a long history of running for President and failing to even
make a mark, let alone win any states.Given that Biden is the only Democratic
candidate with any appeal to the African-American voters in polls, Biden's
failures in Iowa and New Hampshire are a near existential threat to the
Democrats' ability to hold on to their base. After Joe Biden’s collapse, where
do African American Democrats go?
Video: The Socialist Win and Spending Cut Proposal
Bernie wins New
Hampshire and President Trump proposes $4.4 trillion of spending cuts.
Video: Two-way race with Sanders and Buttigieg after N.H., Biden, Warren campaigns are on life support
Joe Biden has to
win South Carolina or he’s pretty much toast in the Democratic nomination in
2020.
Kimberly Guifoyle: And the winner of the Democratic primaries is … Donald Trump
The catastrophic
breakdown that prevented the Iowa Democratic Party from reporting the complete
results for the better part of a week allowed both Sanders and Buttigieg to
claim victory in Iowa, but the lack of an official outcome also prevented either
of them from enjoying the momentum boost that an Iowa victory normally confers.
Not that a victory in this year’s Iowa
caucuses would be much to brag about. A mere 170,000 voters participated— about
one-third fewer than in 2008, and barely over half the 300,000 voters some
Democrat leaders were expecting. The fact that turnout was roughly on par with
2016 is another troubling sign for Democrats — in the subsequent general
election, President Trump trounced Hillary Clinton in Iowa, racking up a nearly
10-point margin of victory en route to a convincing Electoral College win… As
the dust settles, it’s clear that President Trump is the only presidential
candidate who can credibly claim victory in the first two primary contests.
While the Democrat candidates jockeyed for position amid the botched Iowa
results and vilified each other throughout the lead-up to the New Hampshire
primary, Donald Trump remained above the fray, reminding voters that there is a
competent, trusted alternative to the radical Democrats vying to run against
him.
Joe Biden is the Jeb Bush of the 2020 Democratic primary
By Rick Manning
Joe Biden is the Jeb Bush of the 2020 Democratic primary, a candidate who the kingmakers of the Democratic Party attempted to put into the White House so that they could control the levers of power much like Jeb in 2016.
The problem that Democratic leaders have is that Biden has never been successful electorally outside of Delaware, and has a long history of running for President and failing to even make a mark, let alone win any states.
Given that Biden is the only Democratic candidate with any appeal to the African-American voters in polls, Biden's failure in Iowa and New Hampshire poses a near existential threat to the Democrats' ability to hold on to their base. In 2016, then candidate Trump appealed to the African American community saying, "What do you have to lose?"
Four years later, the African American community has a lot to lose: Record low unemployment, rising wages, opportunity zones and an economic policy that lifts all boats.
The President's controversial decision to drive criminal justice reform with a goal to provide freedom and due process to prisoners who had unfair, unduly long federal sentences is viewed by far-left activists like Van Jones as the achievement that not even Barack Obama could deliver. As Jones noted after the State of the Union Address, Trump's "strong" address was a wake-up call to Democrats, signaling Trump is going after black votes.
For the first time in history, I'm going to say Jones is right. 50 years of failed Democratic promises will be counted against 4 years of unprecedented prosperity and opportunities for blacks. Just as significantly, wages have been rising faster for those who had been economically left behind than for the top 20 percent, meaning that many blacks have been able to lift themselves out of dependency upon the state to self-sufficiency.
The two current front runners Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg both offer a radical vision of change and the same old failed, race-based policies and virtue signaling.
After Biden's collapse, President Trump's appeal to all voters including African Americans, promises to be very attractive. After all, who votes for radical change at a time of unprecedented prosperity.
As James Carville once declared, "It's the economy, stupid." And Democrats will be hard pressed to vote their own gains out of blind loyalty to those who make the same old stale, failed and broken political promises.
Rick Manning is the President of Americans for Limited Government.
Video: The Socialist Win and Spending Cut Proposal
To view online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTg1CbyEWJU
Video: Two-way race with Sanders and Buttigieg after N.H., Biden, Warren campaigns are on life support
To view online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrWU6-ODWfU
ALG Editor’s Note: In the following featured oped from Real Clear Politics, Trump campaign advisor Kimberly Guifoyle notes that the chaos of the Democratic primaries favors President Donald Trump:
And the winner of the Democratic primaries is … Donald Trump
By Kimberly Guilfoyle
The fervent speculation in the media — Bernie Sanders or Pete Buttigieg? — misses the point. There was, in fact, a clear winner of both the Democrat Iowa Caucuses and the Democrat New Hampshire primary: It was President Trump.
The catastrophic breakdown that prevented the Iowa Democratic Party from reporting the complete results for the better part of a week allowed both Sanders and Buttigieg to claim victory in Iowa, but the lack of an official outcome also prevented either of them from enjoying the momentum boost that an Iowa victory normally confers.
Not that a victory in this year’s Iowa caucuses would be much to brag about. A mere 170,000 voters participated— about one-third fewer than in 2008, and barely over half the 300,000 voters some Democrat leaders were expecting. The fact that turnout was roughly on par with 2016 is another troubling sign for Democrats — in the subsequent general election, President Trump trounced Hillary Clinton in Iowa, racking up a nearly 10-point margin of victory en route to a convincing Electoral College win.
The highly anticipated rematch between Sanders and Buttigieg in New Hampshire hardly went any better. Although the Democrats managed to match their 2016 turnout, that wasn’t a particularly impressive feat — while this year’s contest was highly competitive, making every single ballot meaningful, the 2016 New Hampshire primary was a cakewalk for Sanders. The results didn’t do anything to clear up the divide within the Democratic Party, either, since Sanders and Buttigieg once again emerged with an equal number of delegates.
Meanwhile, Republican voters once again rallied behind the president in New Hampshire, handing him an overwhelming victory that underscores the unprecedented degree of unity within the GOP. Donald Trump racked up about 10 times as many votes as the second-place candidate — and even though the outcome was a foregone conclusion, he still managed to draw an astounding 120,000 voters to the polls. That’s more votes than any incumbent president has received in the New Hampshire primary in the past four decades.
The main takeaway from the first two Democrat primary contests, therefore, has very little to do with which candidate received the most votes. Iowa and New Hampshire revealed that none of them inspire any real enthusiasm among voters, while all of them alienate at least one major faction of the Democrat base.
Radical leftists such as Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren terrify moderate Democrats almost as much as they enrage Republicans and independent voters with their socialist policy agendas. So-called “moderate” candidates such as Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden, meanwhile, are still well to the left of the American electorate, yet they’re also reviled by far-left extremists who view them as traitors to the progressive cause.
As the dust settles, it’s clear that President Trump is the only presidential candidate who can credibly claim victory in the first two primary contests. While the Democrat candidates jockeyed for position amid the botched Iowa results and vilified each other throughout the lead-up to the New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump remained above the fray, reminding voters that there is a competent, trusted alternative to the radical Democrats vying to run against him.
