Karen Erickson: Democrats have begun searching for a scapegoat

In a Washington tourist store, halfway between the White House and the Capitol Building, T-shirts from President Joe Biden’s installation are being sold. Messages about the 2020 winner can be hard to sell out after Tuesday.

In New Hampshire, Senator Maggie Hassan has pledged to take over the president, in everything from security at the Mexican border to dealing with the opioid crisis in the United States. Good Democrat like Biden.

In California, Governor Gavin Newsom, also a Democrat, talks about how the party is losing so much in the narrative battle.

Polls are supposed to be open all day Tuesday, but Democrats have read the latest polls and are looking for scapegoats. Maggie Hassan and Gavin Newsom have different motives — they did unexpectedly poorly in the Senate elections and have ambitions for the presidential election in 2024 — but the goal will be the same. This is Biden and the electoral message.

It might be unfair: It’s a rule that the party that controls the White House retracts in the midterm elections, especially during the president’s first term. Therefore, it is not surprising if there are headwinds for Joe Biden in the 2022 midterm elections, just as representatives Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

But a few months ago, there was hope in Democrats to break the trend. This summer’s Supreme Court decision to repeal the national right to abortion galvanized women and youth. Trump’s presence in the political debate — and his ties to a handful of Republican candidates — seems to discourage middle voters.

Now Democrats are considering whether it would be wrong to build Biden’s fall campaign on the message that democracy in the United States is under siege.

Now Democrats are considering whether it would be wrong to build Biden’s fall campaign on the message that democracy in the United States is under siege. They might be wondering – like the average DN reader – how many Americans, in the name of heaven, can vote for politicians who have supported Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.

can be heard Controversy echoes in Sweden’s Social Democratic Party – even though Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson went into the election with far better personalities of confidence than US President Joe Biden. The strategists in Stockholm and Washington may have something to learn from each other. There is something about the far-right warnings that don’t seem to resonate with voters.

Over the past two years, I’ve spoken to many Trump voters who believe the 2020 election has been stolen. Many point to the fact that Republicans had an advantage in vote-counting on election night—due to counting small rural areas first, but this contributed to the myth of voter fraud. When asked why courts and even conservative judges have dismissed allegations of fraud from the Trump camp, they float in conspiracy theories about the rotting of the rule of law.

What is strange about the US election campaign is how insanity goes hand in hand with perfectly reasonable discussions of issues. Voters have always put the economy and inflation first.

What is strange about the US election campaign is how insanity goes hand in hand with perfectly reasonable discussions of issues. Voters have always put the economy and inflation first. I experienced this anxiety in Las Vegas and I faced it in Detroit. The Anderson Awards in Sweden became the Biden Awards in the USA.

Polls show Also, many voters are concerned about violent crime and that many in the southern United States see major problems with the influx of immigrants from Mexico. There the Republicans won the battle for the agenda.

The election is a marathon, not a sprint, notes CNN political commentator Alice Stewart, who previously worked in communications for Republicans. She thinks it is clear that voters feel that the president does not understand their day-to-day problems. After that, the grandiose rhetoric about democracy falls.

Perhaps the odd thing is that Biden and his cronies have been no better at marketing their successes – and above all the massive investments in infrastructure that have been accompanied by support across party lines.

Perhaps the odd thing is that Biden and his cronies have been no better at marketing their successes – and above all significant investments in infrastructure that have been achieved with support across party lines. Perhaps the president felt it was impossible to talk about roads and bridges when democracy in the United States was on the verge of collapse. But this raises another question to assess the election: Why did Biden wait so long to attack threats from the far right?

During his first year As president, Biden has consistently avoided mentioning the name of his successor. Regardless of the outcome of the midterm elections, it is hard to see that it was a sustainable strategy.

The tourist store in Washington not only sells Biden winning T-shirts, but also things that have “Trump 2024” written on it.

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