The walk-back we are seeing from the Biden White House after the attempted assassination of former President Trump is an acknowledgment that we need to cool the rhetoric, to calm it down.
Politics is enmeshed in all of this because President Biden is running a really rough reelection campaign against former President Trump, by polling data. Trump is leading him by about three points nationally. If Trump were to win the popular vote by three points, he would have a 100% chance of winning the Electoral College, according to poll analyst Nate Silver.
Biden issued a blasé statement saying an investigation was underway. He stated:
Last night, I spoke with Donald Trump. I’m sincerely grateful that he’s doing well and recovering. And we had a short but good conversation. Jill and I are keeping him and his family in our prayers. … as this investigation continues, here’s what we’re going to do. First, Mr. Trump, as a former president and nominee of the Republican Party already receives a heightened level of security, and I have been consistent in my direction to the Secret Service to provide him with every resource, capability, and protective measure necessary to ensure his continued safety. Second, I’ve directed the head of the Secret Service to review all security measures for the — all security measures for the Republican National Convention, which is scheduled to start tomorrow. And third, I’ve directed an independent review of the national security at yesterday’s rally to assess exactly what happened. And we’ll share the results of that independent review with the American people as well.
So that was Biden’s rather blasé statement yesterday. Because of this horrifying circumstance, he was able to shift the narrative away from himself, as his mental capacity has been the center of the news lately. Until the assassination attempt, the news cycle was all about the fact that Biden might be ousted by his own party because he was trailing in the polls and clearly declining every single day.
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The focus has now shifted back to Trump. But it also puts Biden on the defensive because the reality is that people have been heating up the rhetoric to the point where there was an assassination attempt against Donald Trump.
That has been going on for nearly 10 years; it was Joe Biden who, all the way back in 2011, suggested that members of the Tea Party were akin to terrorists.
It was Joe Biden who said Mitt Romney wanted to put black people back in chains.
It was Joe Biden who spent large swathes of his career engaging in the most extraordinarily radical type of rhetoric with regard to his political opponents, full-scale demonization.
And now Joe Biden has to try and walk that back. He has thus far refused to dissociate from his central campaign message, which is that his opponent is a fascist who is going to destroy the country wholesale and turn himself into a Hitlerian dictator.
Biden’s entire campaign has been about how his political opponents are going to end democracy and institute a fascist dictatorship, that if he does not win reelection, his political opponent is so evil there will likely never be another election and democracy will be fatally undermined.
So when Biden says we all need to take down the rhetoric, is he willing to say “including me”? Biden’s people recently tweeted that Trump would come into office and institute “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Joe Biden’s X account declared that Donald Trump would be a full-scale dictator.
If Biden is willing to dissociate from the central message of his campaign, I will take his talk more seriously about lowering the political temperature.
Biden’s entire campaign has been about how his political opponent is orange Hitler.
The problem is when Biden states that the political temperature must come down, it rings hollow.
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The walk-back we are seeing from the Biden White House after the attempted assassination of former President Trump is an acknowledgment that we need to cool the rhetoric, to calm it down.
Politics is enmeshed in all of this because President Biden is running a really rough reelection campaign against former President Trump, by polling data. Trump is leading him by about three points nationally. If Trump were to win the popular vote by three points, he would have a 100% chance of winning the Electoral College, according to poll analyst Nate Silver.
Biden issued a blasé statement saying an investigation was underway. He stated:
Last night, I spoke with Donald Trump. I’m sincerely grateful that he’s doing well and recovering. And we had a short but good conversation. Jill and I are keeping him and his family in our prayers. … as this investigation continues, here’s what we’re going to do. First, Mr. Trump, as a former president and nominee of the Republican Party already receives a heightened level of security, and I have been consistent in my direction to the Secret Service to provide him with every resource, capability, and protective measure necessary to ensure his continued safety. Second, I’ve directed the head of the Secret Service to review all security measures for the — all security measures for the Republican National Convention, which is scheduled to start tomorrow. And third, I’ve directed an independent review of the national security at yesterday’s rally to assess exactly what happened. And we’ll share the results of that independent review with the American people as well.
So that was Biden’s rather blasé statement yesterday. Because of this horrifying circumstance, he was able to shift the narrative away from himself, as his mental capacity has been the center of the news lately. Until the assassination attempt, the news cycle was all about the fact that Biden might be ousted by his own party because he was trailing in the polls and clearly declining every single day.
WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show
The focus has now shifted back to Trump. But it also puts Biden on the defensive because the reality is that people have been heating up the rhetoric to the point where there was an assassination attempt against Donald Trump.
That has been going on for nearly 10 years; it was Joe Biden who, all the way back in 2011, suggested that members of the Tea Party were akin to terrorists.
It was Joe Biden who said Mitt Romney wanted to put black people back in chains.
It was Joe Biden who spent large swathes of his career engaging in the most extraordinarily radical type of rhetoric with regard to his political opponents, full-scale demonization.
And now Joe Biden has to try and walk that back. He has thus far refused to dissociate from his central campaign message, which is that his opponent is a fascist who is going to destroy the country wholesale and turn himself into a Hitlerian dictator.
Biden’s entire campaign has been about how his political opponents are going to end democracy and institute a fascist dictatorship, that if he does not win reelection, his political opponent is so evil there will likely never be another election and democracy will be fatally undermined.
So when Biden says we all need to take down the rhetoric, is he willing to say “including me”? Biden’s people recently tweeted that Trump would come into office and institute “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Joe Biden’s X account declared that Donald Trump would be a full-scale dictator.
If Biden is willing to dissociate from the central message of his campaign, I will take his talk more seriously about lowering the political temperature.
Biden’s entire campaign has been about how his political opponent is orange Hitler.
The problem is when Biden states that the political temperature must come down, it rings hollow.
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