The New York Post
"Joe Biden can’t get out of the hole he’s already dug for himself"
Opinion by Dan McLaughlin
4 APRIL 2024
It was supposed to be unthinkable.
After losing to Joe Biden in 2020, after Jan. 6, after four felony indictments and all manner of other legal troubles, after years of surveys showing solid majorities of Americans widely dislike Donald Trump and after feuds with Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis that have yet to heal, it’s seven months to Election Day and the polls consistently show Trump leading Biden.
How did Biden screw this up so badly?
The latest Wall Street Journal poll shows Trump leading by 2 to 8 points in each of six battleground states (Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina), trailing Biden only in Wisconsin — and a pure head-to-head matchup has the two men tied in Wisconsin.
Look at the RealClearPolitics poll averages, and the story is much the same: Trump leads Biden by less than a point in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and by 3 points or more in each of the other five big battlegrounds.
In states with a clear poll leader, Trump leads Biden 219-214 in the Electoral College.
If you count every lead, no matter how thin, Trump wins by a lopsided 312-226, the biggest Electoral College margin since Barack Obama in 2012.
It’s not over yet
That would also mean Trump carrying eight states where Democrats are defending a Senate seat in November while losing none where Republicans are defending one.
Chuck Schumer can’t be happy at that prospect.
It’s early for Trump to start counting his chickens.
The polling industry has struggled to reliably forecast elections as fewer and fewer Americans answer their phones or even have a landline.
Many of Trump’s leads are modest.
The Journal poll was conducted March 17-24, and national polls that were in the field since then have been a bit more favorable to Biden.
Large numbers of voters, especially independents, still say they are undecided.
It’s also early enough that the campaigns, which don’t really kick into gear until after Labor Day, can still have an effect.
Democrats are likely to maintain their significant edge in fundraising, which means more money for ads and getting out the vote.
The war in Gaza may be over by November, which would help heal fractures in Biden’s voting base.
Trump may yet be convicted at one or more criminal trials between now and then.
And the race could be upended if Biden (who’s 81) or Trump (who turns 78 in June) were to have a serious health issue.
But you’d much rather be where Trump is in the polls right now than where Biden is.
Trump was never in this strong a position at any point in the 2016 or 2020 elections.
At this stage in 2020, Biden was up 4 points in Michigan, 3 in Wisconsin and North Carolina and 2 in Pennsylvania.
At this point in 2016, Hillary Clinton was up 10 in Michigan and Wisconsin, 9 in Pennsylvania and 2 in North Carolina — and she lost all four states.
How much of this is Biden’s fault?
His job-approval rating is still hovering just over 40%, well below where Trump stood at this point in 2020 as the nation locked down in the midst of the pandemic.
Only 28% told the Journal that Biden has the mental and physical fitness to do the job, and that’s consistent with what other pollsters have found.
Voters are dissatisfied with the economy, the border and the world situation, and they increasingly remember Trump as doing a better job.
Trump hasn’t done anything different; he just looks better as people see the alternative.
It also helps people think more about the first three years of Trump’s term and less about 2020’s lockdowns and riots.
Many voters now seem to think of those events as an anomaly that won’t return.
Dem base is sagging
Biden’s support is sagging badly among black and Hispanic voters, and younger people are tuning him out.
So are the faithful: A February Marquette poll found that Biden trailed Trump by 12 points among Catholics, 15 among mainline Protestants and 25 among weekly churchgoers.
In Michigan, Emerson College found Trump 1 to 3 points ahead of Biden (depending how many other candidates you include) — but Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer would be 5 points ahead of Trump.
That’s on Joe.
Yet Biden refuses to change course or change his message: The economy is good, Trump is a threat to democracy, and abortion, abortion, abortion.
Those campaign tactics helped Democrats avoid what should have been a much worse loss in 2022, but they still lost the national popular vote in House races — and a repeat of that showing would mean President Trump: The Sequel.
But don’t expect an old dog to learn new tricks.
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AMERICA'S FIGHTING BULLDOG JOE BIDEN
Re: AMERICA'S FIGHTING BULLDOG JOE BIDEN
FOX News
"Dark money machine: Biden, top Dems benefit from millions in secretive election cash"
Story by Joe Schoffstall
4 APRIL 2024
Entities affiliated with President Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have raked in millions of dollars in secretive donations for the 2024 elections, even as those Democrat party leaders regularly assail fundraising with so-called dark money.
Top Democrats benefit from the anonymous donor cash as they have consistently criticized dark money in politics: There's "too much money that flows in the shadows to influence our elections" and it "erodes public trust," President Biden previously declared.
Despite his comments, the primary super PAC backing the president's re-election efforts has received millions in dark money donations, with far more likely on the way.
The Future Forward PAC, which Biden's team designated as the primary outside group to raise money for his 2024 candidacy, received an $8 million contribution in late December from its affiliated nonprofit arm, Future Forward USA Action, filings show.
Future Forward USA Action does not disclose the identities of its donors, meaning the origin of the millions that ultimately benefit Biden remains unknown.
The group told Politico earlier this year that it raised $208 million between its nonprofit and super PAC last year.
Records show that the PAC raised $25 million in donations during this time, signaling that the nonprofit had most of the money.
As the election draws closer, Biden will likely benefit from far more anonymous cash transferred from the nonprofit to the PAC.
Future Forward has long passed dark money from its nonprofit to its super PAC.
Fox News Digital previously reported that a considerable amount of Future Forward's nonprofit cash itself was passed through a web of groups overseen by the Arabella Advisors consulting firm, which manages a billion-dollar dark money network.
These actions add another layer of secrecy that further conceals its original supporters.
One of the dark money groups, the Impetus Fund, had escaped detection for some time.
According to tax documents, the Impetus Fund sent most of its undisclosed cash — $55.8 million — to Future Forward USA Action during the last presidential cycle.
Future Forward USA Action transferred $77 million to the Future Forward PAC between the 2020 election and June 2023, making up more than 40% of the $181 million the PAC raised during that span.
The Schumer-aligned Senate Majority PAC, which works to elect and keep Democrat politicians in Congress's upper chamber, has also long passed secretive money between its affiliated nonprofit and the PAC that boosts candidates nationwide.
Majority Forward, a dark money nonprofit with links to the Senate Majority PAC, has passed at least $15.75 million to the PAC for the 2024 elections.
However, those figures only cover up to January, so more could have been transferred between the nonprofit and PAC since then.
Schumer has publicly assailed dark money and pushed legislation against it.
He also demanded that right-leaning judicial groups identify their donors even as Democrats benefit from such groups.
Schumer championed the For the People Act, which contains provisions requiring political nonprofits to disclose donors who give more than $10,000.
The bill also calls for nonprofits to file disclosure reports to the Federal Election Commission when they push more than $10,000 into election-related activities.
Meanwhile, the Jeffries-affiliated House Majority PAC, which boosts Democrat candidates in Congress's lower chamber, also receives millions in dark money.
Federal filings show that the PAC's affiliated dark money nonprofit, House Majority Forward, passed $8 million over to the House Majority PAC this cycle up to the end of December.
Like the other groups, it might have received more after that period for this year's elections.
"Liberals decry dark money, unless it's their own," Americans for Public Trust Executive Director Caitlin Sutherland told Fox News Digital.
Republicans, likewise, benefit from millions in dark money pumped into election activity, though the party does not publicly condemn the practice as Democrats do.
The Senate Leadership Fund, for example, has received at least $5.18 million from One Nation, a dark money nonprofit, for the 2024 elections.
Democrats have also benefited from far more dark money than Republicans in recent election cycles.
The New York Times previously reported that 15 of the most active Democrat dark money nonprofits spent $1.5 billion during the 2020 elections.
By comparison, 15 of the most active Republican nonprofits spent around $900 million during this time.
Neither Biden's campaign, nor Future Forward nor the Senate and House Majority PACs responded to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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"Dark money machine: Biden, top Dems benefit from millions in secretive election cash"
Story by Joe Schoffstall
4 APRIL 2024
Entities affiliated with President Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have raked in millions of dollars in secretive donations for the 2024 elections, even as those Democrat party leaders regularly assail fundraising with so-called dark money.
Top Democrats benefit from the anonymous donor cash as they have consistently criticized dark money in politics: There's "too much money that flows in the shadows to influence our elections" and it "erodes public trust," President Biden previously declared.
Despite his comments, the primary super PAC backing the president's re-election efforts has received millions in dark money donations, with far more likely on the way.
The Future Forward PAC, which Biden's team designated as the primary outside group to raise money for his 2024 candidacy, received an $8 million contribution in late December from its affiliated nonprofit arm, Future Forward USA Action, filings show.
Future Forward USA Action does not disclose the identities of its donors, meaning the origin of the millions that ultimately benefit Biden remains unknown.
The group told Politico earlier this year that it raised $208 million between its nonprofit and super PAC last year.
Records show that the PAC raised $25 million in donations during this time, signaling that the nonprofit had most of the money.
As the election draws closer, Biden will likely benefit from far more anonymous cash transferred from the nonprofit to the PAC.
Future Forward has long passed dark money from its nonprofit to its super PAC.
Fox News Digital previously reported that a considerable amount of Future Forward's nonprofit cash itself was passed through a web of groups overseen by the Arabella Advisors consulting firm, which manages a billion-dollar dark money network.
These actions add another layer of secrecy that further conceals its original supporters.
One of the dark money groups, the Impetus Fund, had escaped detection for some time.
According to tax documents, the Impetus Fund sent most of its undisclosed cash — $55.8 million — to Future Forward USA Action during the last presidential cycle.
Future Forward USA Action transferred $77 million to the Future Forward PAC between the 2020 election and June 2023, making up more than 40% of the $181 million the PAC raised during that span.
The Schumer-aligned Senate Majority PAC, which works to elect and keep Democrat politicians in Congress's upper chamber, has also long passed secretive money between its affiliated nonprofit and the PAC that boosts candidates nationwide.
Majority Forward, a dark money nonprofit with links to the Senate Majority PAC, has passed at least $15.75 million to the PAC for the 2024 elections.
However, those figures only cover up to January, so more could have been transferred between the nonprofit and PAC since then.
Schumer has publicly assailed dark money and pushed legislation against it.
He also demanded that right-leaning judicial groups identify their donors even as Democrats benefit from such groups.
Schumer championed the For the People Act, which contains provisions requiring political nonprofits to disclose donors who give more than $10,000.
The bill also calls for nonprofits to file disclosure reports to the Federal Election Commission when they push more than $10,000 into election-related activities.
Meanwhile, the Jeffries-affiliated House Majority PAC, which boosts Democrat candidates in Congress's lower chamber, also receives millions in dark money.
Federal filings show that the PAC's affiliated dark money nonprofit, House Majority Forward, passed $8 million over to the House Majority PAC this cycle up to the end of December.
Like the other groups, it might have received more after that period for this year's elections.
"Liberals decry dark money, unless it's their own," Americans for Public Trust Executive Director Caitlin Sutherland told Fox News Digital.
Republicans, likewise, benefit from millions in dark money pumped into election activity, though the party does not publicly condemn the practice as Democrats do.
The Senate Leadership Fund, for example, has received at least $5.18 million from One Nation, a dark money nonprofit, for the 2024 elections.
Democrats have also benefited from far more dark money than Republicans in recent election cycles.
The New York Times previously reported that 15 of the most active Democrat dark money nonprofits spent $1.5 billion during the 2020 elections.
By comparison, 15 of the most active Republican nonprofits spent around $900 million during this time.
Neither Biden's campaign, nor Future Forward nor the Senate and House Majority PACs responded to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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NBC News
"'Freaked out' Democrats mobilize to stop RFK Jr. from cutting into Biden"
Story by Carol E. Lee and Alex Seitz-Wald and Vaughn Hillyard
5 APRIL 2024
WASHINGTON — In fall 2016, a Hillary Clinton staffer stationed in the Upper Midwest got a call from the campaign’s headquarters in Brooklyn telling him to delete a joke he had tweeted about then-Green Party nominee Jill Stein.
The campaign’s policy, in keeping with the standard practice, was to not discuss third-party candidates, whom they viewed as minor nuisances to be ignored — not as adversaries worth combating openly, even in jest.
This year, though, Democrats have adopted a radically different strategy on independent and third-party candidates.
They’re waging an open war on the likes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom they view as mortal threats to President Joe Biden’s re-election.
There are brand new super PACs — plural — devoted to crushing third-party candidates.
Democratic National Committee mobile billboards troll Kennedy at events.
And party donors are funding legal efforts to try to keep him off the ballot.
Democrats are adopting such a different posture in 2024 partly because of what happened after that fall 2016 phone call: Stein won enough votes in swing states like Michigan to potentially tip the close election to Donald Trump, and Clinton become the second Democrat in less than 20 years to lose the presidency after Green Party nominees won a mere 1% support in key states.
“Everyone thinks this is going to be decided on the head of a pin, so people are freaked out like never before,” said one senior Democrat, granted anonymity to speak candidly.
Democrats have grown increasingly alarmed by Kennedy’s strength in polls, especially since he named Silicon Valley philanthropist Nicole Shanahan as his running mate.
Not only could she fund the cash-strapped campaign, but her selection and the way the campaign introduced her signaled that Kennedy is positioning himself more on the left in the 2024 campaign.
Shanahan, who until recently was a sizable Democratic donor, announced on stage that she was leaving the Democratic Party and invited others to join her.
Democrats are especially concerned about Kennedy attracting low-propensity voters who are only marginally attached to the Democratic Party, including swaths of young people and, especially, young men of color.
Even a small number of defections from Biden's 2020 coalition could tip a key state against the president in 2024 and imperil his narrow path to victory.
“Since early January, it has not been difficult to convince people that this is a challenge and potential problem that needs to be taken seriously,” said Pete Kavanaugh, Biden’s former deputy campaign manager in 2020, who is now running a new Democratic super PAC called Clear Choice.
The group, which has the tacit blessing of Biden’s high command, is dedicated to stopping third-party candidates from gaining traction, through research, messaging and especially “ballot access accountability” — that is, trying to keep candidates off the ballot by exploiting any mistake they make in gathering and submitting petition signatures.
'The Democrat Party’s worst nightmare'
There were some self-organized efforts to combat former Green Party nominee Ralph Nader in 2004 (after Democrats blamed his 2000 performance in Florida for hurting Al Gore), and Democrats in 2020 worked quietly to block the rapper formerly known as Kanye West from the ballot.
But Democrats have never had a well-funded national strategy like the current one to combat third-party candidates.
And Kennedy, an apostate of the most famous Democratic family in America, has proved to be a particularly appeal target for donors.
“He’s got a famous last name, he’s showing up in the numbers, and a lot of them have had personal interactions with him in the past, so there is significant interest in making sure these programs are funded,” said Kavanaugh.
Future Forward, the main pro-Biden super PAC, which raised over $150 million in 2020, could potentially run ads to tamp down third-party support, according to people familiar with the effort.
Meanwhile, an earlier coalition of outside groups that worked together to combat No Labels, the bipartisan group that ended its efforts to field a presidential ticket earlier Thursday, is pivoting to Kennedy and the other candidates.
“We have learned a lot in the No Labels campaign about how to make the case against third parties this cycle, and we’re deeply alarmed by the Kennedy campaign,” said Matt Bennett, the executive vice president of Third Way, the centrist Democratic think tank that served as a hub for that effort.
“Ultimately, this is going to look different."
"It’s going to be a persuasion campaign in swing states to not vote for him.”
Donna Brazile, the famed Democratic strategist who managed Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, said the party was caught off guard by Nader, who won nearly 100,000 votes in Florida that year as Republican George W. Bush carried the state by a 537-vote margin.
“Our focus was on voter fatigue, apathy and the lack of enthusiasm,” said Brazile.
“So, we missed the post-debate momentum that Team Nader generated in a number of battleground states, including Florida.”
Brazile added that in the current media landscape, it’s “vital” for the DNC to “keep a watchful eye” on candidates it might have dismissed in the past.
Kennedy, meanwhile, is spoiling for the fight since dropping out of the Democratic primary to run as an independent.
He is accusing Democrats of being un-democratic and blasting out fundraising emails calling himself “the Democrat Party’s worst nightmare.”
“They are using a vast network of shadowy dark money groups and vicious attorneys to keep Kennedy/Shanahan ticket off state ballots and spread malicious smears,” he added in one missive.
Biden himself, however, is leaving it to outside groups and the DNC to engage with Kennedy, keeping his hands clean.
“We’re not giving this guy oxygen,” said one person familiar with the campaign’s thinking.
The Biden campaign wants the 2024 election to be seen as a binary choice between Biden and Trump.
But its belief is that Kennedy is probably going to be a factor in only a handful of battleground states.
And in those states, the battle for voters will be fought locally, with national support from the DNC and super PACs.
Why Trump thinks RFK is 'great for MAGA'
It's not just Democratic strategists who think Kennedy is a threat to Biden.
Kennedy is “great for MAGA,” Trump said on Truth Social last weekend, adding, “I love that he is running!”
On Fox News, Trump said, “I think he’s probably going to hurt Biden."
"I don’t see him hurting me.”
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., a possible Trump running mate, said on Newsmax last week: “What we do realize is having that third-party candidate on the ballot, no matter the choice for vice president, is gonna bleed votes from the Democrats.”
Vivek Ramaswamy, the former GOP presidential candidate, said he hopes Kennedy gets on as many state ballots as possible since “it should take votes away from the Democrats," while former Trump spokesperson Erin Perrine said it was foolish to think "he would take votes from anybody other than Joe Biden."
Still, there is enormous uncertainty about how much third-party candidates will actually matter come November.
Kennedy has yet to secure ballot access in most states.
And the polling data is messy enough that no one is comfortable saying exactly how much support Kennedy has, let alone how many of his supporters might otherwise go for Biden versus Trump.
And historically, a large portion of voters who at some point tell pollsters they’ll vote third-party wind up pulling the lever for a major candidate.
And Kennedy is not well positioned to take advantage of the major source of progressive dissatisfaction with Biden: Israel’s conduct in its war against Hamas in Gaza, since Kennedy's stance on the conflict is similar to Biden’s.
Still, it's clear that at least some voters who might otherwise vote Democratic are attracted to Kennedy’s populist message.
“I like the fact that he’s interested in divorcing the corporate interests with government interests,” said a Biden 2020 voter who gave her name Joanna and attended last month’s event in Oakland unveiling Shanahan.
“He has integrity, and he’s honest.”
If Kennedy is not on the ballot, she suggested she would likely vote for the Green Party nominee instead.
“I’ve actually voted Democrat my entire life," she said.
"But I don’t think I’d do it this time."
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"'Freaked out' Democrats mobilize to stop RFK Jr. from cutting into Biden"
Story by Carol E. Lee and Alex Seitz-Wald and Vaughn Hillyard
5 APRIL 2024
WASHINGTON — In fall 2016, a Hillary Clinton staffer stationed in the Upper Midwest got a call from the campaign’s headquarters in Brooklyn telling him to delete a joke he had tweeted about then-Green Party nominee Jill Stein.
The campaign’s policy, in keeping with the standard practice, was to not discuss third-party candidates, whom they viewed as minor nuisances to be ignored — not as adversaries worth combating openly, even in jest.
This year, though, Democrats have adopted a radically different strategy on independent and third-party candidates.
They’re waging an open war on the likes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom they view as mortal threats to President Joe Biden’s re-election.
There are brand new super PACs — plural — devoted to crushing third-party candidates.
Democratic National Committee mobile billboards troll Kennedy at events.
And party donors are funding legal efforts to try to keep him off the ballot.
Democrats are adopting such a different posture in 2024 partly because of what happened after that fall 2016 phone call: Stein won enough votes in swing states like Michigan to potentially tip the close election to Donald Trump, and Clinton become the second Democrat in less than 20 years to lose the presidency after Green Party nominees won a mere 1% support in key states.
“Everyone thinks this is going to be decided on the head of a pin, so people are freaked out like never before,” said one senior Democrat, granted anonymity to speak candidly.
Democrats have grown increasingly alarmed by Kennedy’s strength in polls, especially since he named Silicon Valley philanthropist Nicole Shanahan as his running mate.
Not only could she fund the cash-strapped campaign, but her selection and the way the campaign introduced her signaled that Kennedy is positioning himself more on the left in the 2024 campaign.
Shanahan, who until recently was a sizable Democratic donor, announced on stage that she was leaving the Democratic Party and invited others to join her.
Democrats are especially concerned about Kennedy attracting low-propensity voters who are only marginally attached to the Democratic Party, including swaths of young people and, especially, young men of color.
Even a small number of defections from Biden's 2020 coalition could tip a key state against the president in 2024 and imperil his narrow path to victory.
“Since early January, it has not been difficult to convince people that this is a challenge and potential problem that needs to be taken seriously,” said Pete Kavanaugh, Biden’s former deputy campaign manager in 2020, who is now running a new Democratic super PAC called Clear Choice.
The group, which has the tacit blessing of Biden’s high command, is dedicated to stopping third-party candidates from gaining traction, through research, messaging and especially “ballot access accountability” — that is, trying to keep candidates off the ballot by exploiting any mistake they make in gathering and submitting petition signatures.
'The Democrat Party’s worst nightmare'
There were some self-organized efforts to combat former Green Party nominee Ralph Nader in 2004 (after Democrats blamed his 2000 performance in Florida for hurting Al Gore), and Democrats in 2020 worked quietly to block the rapper formerly known as Kanye West from the ballot.
But Democrats have never had a well-funded national strategy like the current one to combat third-party candidates.
And Kennedy, an apostate of the most famous Democratic family in America, has proved to be a particularly appeal target for donors.
“He’s got a famous last name, he’s showing up in the numbers, and a lot of them have had personal interactions with him in the past, so there is significant interest in making sure these programs are funded,” said Kavanaugh.
Future Forward, the main pro-Biden super PAC, which raised over $150 million in 2020, could potentially run ads to tamp down third-party support, according to people familiar with the effort.
Meanwhile, an earlier coalition of outside groups that worked together to combat No Labels, the bipartisan group that ended its efforts to field a presidential ticket earlier Thursday, is pivoting to Kennedy and the other candidates.
“We have learned a lot in the No Labels campaign about how to make the case against third parties this cycle, and we’re deeply alarmed by the Kennedy campaign,” said Matt Bennett, the executive vice president of Third Way, the centrist Democratic think tank that served as a hub for that effort.
“Ultimately, this is going to look different."
"It’s going to be a persuasion campaign in swing states to not vote for him.”
Donna Brazile, the famed Democratic strategist who managed Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, said the party was caught off guard by Nader, who won nearly 100,000 votes in Florida that year as Republican George W. Bush carried the state by a 537-vote margin.
“Our focus was on voter fatigue, apathy and the lack of enthusiasm,” said Brazile.
“So, we missed the post-debate momentum that Team Nader generated in a number of battleground states, including Florida.”
Brazile added that in the current media landscape, it’s “vital” for the DNC to “keep a watchful eye” on candidates it might have dismissed in the past.
Kennedy, meanwhile, is spoiling for the fight since dropping out of the Democratic primary to run as an independent.
He is accusing Democrats of being un-democratic and blasting out fundraising emails calling himself “the Democrat Party’s worst nightmare.”
“They are using a vast network of shadowy dark money groups and vicious attorneys to keep Kennedy/Shanahan ticket off state ballots and spread malicious smears,” he added in one missive.
Biden himself, however, is leaving it to outside groups and the DNC to engage with Kennedy, keeping his hands clean.
“We’re not giving this guy oxygen,” said one person familiar with the campaign’s thinking.
The Biden campaign wants the 2024 election to be seen as a binary choice between Biden and Trump.
But its belief is that Kennedy is probably going to be a factor in only a handful of battleground states.
And in those states, the battle for voters will be fought locally, with national support from the DNC and super PACs.
Why Trump thinks RFK is 'great for MAGA'
It's not just Democratic strategists who think Kennedy is a threat to Biden.
Kennedy is “great for MAGA,” Trump said on Truth Social last weekend, adding, “I love that he is running!”
On Fox News, Trump said, “I think he’s probably going to hurt Biden."
"I don’t see him hurting me.”
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., a possible Trump running mate, said on Newsmax last week: “What we do realize is having that third-party candidate on the ballot, no matter the choice for vice president, is gonna bleed votes from the Democrats.”
Vivek Ramaswamy, the former GOP presidential candidate, said he hopes Kennedy gets on as many state ballots as possible since “it should take votes away from the Democrats," while former Trump spokesperson Erin Perrine said it was foolish to think "he would take votes from anybody other than Joe Biden."
Still, there is enormous uncertainty about how much third-party candidates will actually matter come November.
Kennedy has yet to secure ballot access in most states.
And the polling data is messy enough that no one is comfortable saying exactly how much support Kennedy has, let alone how many of his supporters might otherwise go for Biden versus Trump.
And historically, a large portion of voters who at some point tell pollsters they’ll vote third-party wind up pulling the lever for a major candidate.
And Kennedy is not well positioned to take advantage of the major source of progressive dissatisfaction with Biden: Israel’s conduct in its war against Hamas in Gaza, since Kennedy's stance on the conflict is similar to Biden’s.
Still, it's clear that at least some voters who might otherwise vote Democratic are attracted to Kennedy’s populist message.
“I like the fact that he’s interested in divorcing the corporate interests with government interests,” said a Biden 2020 voter who gave her name Joanna and attended last month’s event in Oakland unveiling Shanahan.
“He has integrity, and he’s honest.”
If Kennedy is not on the ballot, she suggested she would likely vote for the Green Party nominee instead.
“I’ve actually voted Democrat my entire life," she said.
"But I don’t think I’d do it this time."
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Re: AMERICA'S FIGHTING BULLDOG JOE BIDEN
The New York Post
"Biden campaign mass hires veteran pollsters after survey shows Trump up in swing states: report"
Story by Josh Christenson
5 APRIL 2024
If you don’t like the answers, change who asks the questions.
President Biden’s campaign has brought in a bevy of pollsters to assist his re-election effort, according to a report published one day after a Wall Street Journal survey revealed the Democratic incumbent was trailing former President Donald Trump in six competitive swing states.
The Biden campaign’s eight new hires included a mix of pollsters who previously worked for the president’s 2020 campaign and others who helped Democrats’ better-than-expected performance in the 2022 midterm vote, Politico reported.
The Journal poll, published Tuesday evening, found Trump, 77, between one and six percentage points ahead of Biden, 81, in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada.
The president won every one of those states except North Carolina in 2020, boosted by black, Hispanic and young voters who have recently shown diminished enthusiasm for Biden.
First lady Jill Biden dismissed the results in a Wednesday interview on “CBS Mornings,” saying her husband was “not losing in all the battleground states” and was “even or doing better.”
A rep for the Biden campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It’s unclear whether the pollsters are specifically tasked with reinvigorating Biden’s 2024 campaign in response to the disappointing Journal poll numbers.
But Celinda Lake, Matt Barreto and Silas Lee — all of whom were employed four years ago as part of Biden’s successful run for the White House — will return to his campaign, with Barreto and Lee expected to ramp up operations to turn out black and Hispanic voters.
Other 2020 re-hires include focus group and qualitative research expert David Binder and John Anzalone, who was the Biden 2020 campaign’s lead pollster but told Politico he would only be an adviser this time around.
Anzalone, who serves as president of the public opinion research and consulting firm Impact Research, will be joined by his colleague Molly Murphy, who was lead pollster for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in 2022.
The new hires also include Geoff Garin, the president of Hart Research and a 2008 Hillary Clinton campaign alum; Jefrey Pollock, a former polling adviser to Illinois Gov. J.B. Prtizker and Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.); and Brenda Lee, another DCCC veteran.
Biden’s stump speeches that have tarnished GOPers as “MAGA Republicans” up and down the ballot since 2022 were the brainchild of Garin and Pollock, according to Politico.
“Team Biden-Harris is building infrastructure to put us on a path to victory this fall, and bringing together a battle-tested, world-class data and polling operation is an essential step,” senior campaign adviser of opinion research Mindy Myers told the outlet in a statement.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the new hires after recently announcing their new pick for top pollster, Tony Fabrizio, who helped conduct the Journal poll and previously worked for the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
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"Biden campaign mass hires veteran pollsters after survey shows Trump up in swing states: report"
Story by Josh Christenson
5 APRIL 2024
If you don’t like the answers, change who asks the questions.
President Biden’s campaign has brought in a bevy of pollsters to assist his re-election effort, according to a report published one day after a Wall Street Journal survey revealed the Democratic incumbent was trailing former President Donald Trump in six competitive swing states.
The Biden campaign’s eight new hires included a mix of pollsters who previously worked for the president’s 2020 campaign and others who helped Democrats’ better-than-expected performance in the 2022 midterm vote, Politico reported.
The Journal poll, published Tuesday evening, found Trump, 77, between one and six percentage points ahead of Biden, 81, in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada.
The president won every one of those states except North Carolina in 2020, boosted by black, Hispanic and young voters who have recently shown diminished enthusiasm for Biden.
First lady Jill Biden dismissed the results in a Wednesday interview on “CBS Mornings,” saying her husband was “not losing in all the battleground states” and was “even or doing better.”
A rep for the Biden campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It’s unclear whether the pollsters are specifically tasked with reinvigorating Biden’s 2024 campaign in response to the disappointing Journal poll numbers.
But Celinda Lake, Matt Barreto and Silas Lee — all of whom were employed four years ago as part of Biden’s successful run for the White House — will return to his campaign, with Barreto and Lee expected to ramp up operations to turn out black and Hispanic voters.
Other 2020 re-hires include focus group and qualitative research expert David Binder and John Anzalone, who was the Biden 2020 campaign’s lead pollster but told Politico he would only be an adviser this time around.
Anzalone, who serves as president of the public opinion research and consulting firm Impact Research, will be joined by his colleague Molly Murphy, who was lead pollster for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in 2022.
The new hires also include Geoff Garin, the president of Hart Research and a 2008 Hillary Clinton campaign alum; Jefrey Pollock, a former polling adviser to Illinois Gov. J.B. Prtizker and Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.); and Brenda Lee, another DCCC veteran.
Biden’s stump speeches that have tarnished GOPers as “MAGA Republicans” up and down the ballot since 2022 were the brainchild of Garin and Pollock, according to Politico.
“Team Biden-Harris is building infrastructure to put us on a path to victory this fall, and bringing together a battle-tested, world-class data and polling operation is an essential step,” senior campaign adviser of opinion research Mindy Myers told the outlet in a statement.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the new hires after recently announcing their new pick for top pollster, Tony Fabrizio, who helped conduct the Journal poll and previously worked for the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
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Re: AMERICA'S FIGHTING BULLDOG JOE BIDEN
The New York Post
"Joe Biden’s ex-chief of staff finally admits it: Inflation is clobbering us"
Opinion by Stephen Moore
6 APRIL 2024
Let’s give former Biden White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain an A for honesty.
He admitted last week what voters have been saying for three years: Inflation is killing them.
Klain admitted on MSNBC that “although inflation has moderated, prices are still high, the price of gasoline is still high, other prices are still high, and people feel that pinch.”
Calling Bidenflation a “pinch” is like calling the bridge collapse in Baltimore a minor traffic delay.
The real tragedy of the Biden economy — and the reason a majority of Americans are telling pollsters they are worse off today than four years ago — is that their paychecks have shrunk.
That’s true no matter how you slice and dice it.
According to the most recent Census Bureau data, the median-income household has lost nearly $2,100 in annual purchasing power.
The more recent Bureau of Labor Statistical data show that through the end of 2023 weekly real earnings were down about $2,000 since Donald Trump left office.
Wages are finally starting to rise faster than inflation — as the most recent jobs report confirms — but the gap still remains negative for Joe Biden more than three years into his presidency.
This is a sharp contrast from the Trump years, when annual incomes for middle-class families were up by more than $5,800.
Amazingly, this improvement is even true when accounting for the severe drop in economic activity due to COVID lockdowns.
Meanwhile, the progress on inflation has stalled out again.
Gas prices are surging again, indicating the middle-class squeeze is still on.
As a reminder: The gas price at the pump was $2.49 a gallon and it now stands at $3.58 a gallon.
This is roughly a $15 per fill-up “tax” on motorists.
Commodity prices — from copper to corn to gold — are up 12% this year.
Add to that mortgage payments.
Under Trump the average mortgage interest rate was a little over 3%; today mortgage rates are closer to 6.5%.
That means the average mortgage payment has risen from roughly $2,000 to almost $3,000 a month — a near 50% rise in just four years.
The American dream of homeownership is increasingly out of reach.
Also notable: The official Consumer Price Index numbers, which say that prices are up 18% since Trump left office, doesn’t include “shrinkflation.”
Smaller servings at restaurants, fewer chips in a bag of Doritos.
You pay more and get less.
Biden blames the inflation on greedy corporations.
His solution is to raise business taxes to reduce profits of corporate fat cats.
But if you raise taxes on businesses, the companies will have to raise their prices worse.
The White House seems mystified that Americans on Main Street USA aren’t feeling the love for Bidenomics.
Maybe that’s because those who live in the fairly-tale land of Washington, DC, are doing just fine.
The problem is the benefits of the trillions of dollars of debt spending aren’t trickling down to middle America.
Ron Klain is right to sound the alarm for the Biden White House.
The happy talk is only making Americans more worried and angrier.
The last time we had persistent inflation and shrinking paychecks like this was when Jimmy Carter was running for reelection in 1980.
Then as now, Americans felt worse off than they were four years ago.
And Ronald Reagan won 44 states.
Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 1c6d&ei=26
"Joe Biden’s ex-chief of staff finally admits it: Inflation is clobbering us"
Opinion by Stephen Moore
6 APRIL 2024
Let’s give former Biden White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain an A for honesty.
He admitted last week what voters have been saying for three years: Inflation is killing them.
Klain admitted on MSNBC that “although inflation has moderated, prices are still high, the price of gasoline is still high, other prices are still high, and people feel that pinch.”
Calling Bidenflation a “pinch” is like calling the bridge collapse in Baltimore a minor traffic delay.
The real tragedy of the Biden economy — and the reason a majority of Americans are telling pollsters they are worse off today than four years ago — is that their paychecks have shrunk.
That’s true no matter how you slice and dice it.
According to the most recent Census Bureau data, the median-income household has lost nearly $2,100 in annual purchasing power.
The more recent Bureau of Labor Statistical data show that through the end of 2023 weekly real earnings were down about $2,000 since Donald Trump left office.
Wages are finally starting to rise faster than inflation — as the most recent jobs report confirms — but the gap still remains negative for Joe Biden more than three years into his presidency.
This is a sharp contrast from the Trump years, when annual incomes for middle-class families were up by more than $5,800.
Amazingly, this improvement is even true when accounting for the severe drop in economic activity due to COVID lockdowns.
Meanwhile, the progress on inflation has stalled out again.
Gas prices are surging again, indicating the middle-class squeeze is still on.
As a reminder: The gas price at the pump was $2.49 a gallon and it now stands at $3.58 a gallon.
This is roughly a $15 per fill-up “tax” on motorists.
Commodity prices — from copper to corn to gold — are up 12% this year.
Add to that mortgage payments.
Under Trump the average mortgage interest rate was a little over 3%; today mortgage rates are closer to 6.5%.
That means the average mortgage payment has risen from roughly $2,000 to almost $3,000 a month — a near 50% rise in just four years.
The American dream of homeownership is increasingly out of reach.
Also notable: The official Consumer Price Index numbers, which say that prices are up 18% since Trump left office, doesn’t include “shrinkflation.”
Smaller servings at restaurants, fewer chips in a bag of Doritos.
You pay more and get less.
Biden blames the inflation on greedy corporations.
His solution is to raise business taxes to reduce profits of corporate fat cats.
But if you raise taxes on businesses, the companies will have to raise their prices worse.
The White House seems mystified that Americans on Main Street USA aren’t feeling the love for Bidenomics.
Maybe that’s because those who live in the fairly-tale land of Washington, DC, are doing just fine.
The problem is the benefits of the trillions of dollars of debt spending aren’t trickling down to middle America.
Ron Klain is right to sound the alarm for the Biden White House.
The happy talk is only making Americans more worried and angrier.
The last time we had persistent inflation and shrinking paychecks like this was when Jimmy Carter was running for reelection in 1980.
Then as now, Americans felt worse off than they were four years ago.
And Ronald Reagan won 44 states.
Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity.
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Re: AMERICA'S FIGHTING BULLDOG JOE BIDEN
ABC News
"Biden could face challenges getting on Ohio general ballot"
6 APRIL 2024
There could be potential general election ballot access concerns for President Joe Biden in Ohio, the state's Secretary of State's office said in a letter to Ohio Democratic Chair Liz Walters on Friday.
In the letter, obtained by ABC News, legal counsel for Secretary of State Frank LaRose sought clarification for "an apparent conflict in Ohio law" between the Democratic National Committee's nominating process and the deadline by which the party's presidential nominee must be certified to the Secretary of State's office.
The Democratic National Convention is scheduled to convene on Aug. 19, which will take place more than a week after the Aug. 7 deadline to certify a presidential candidate in Ohio, the office flagged according to state code, which would create a problem for Biden's eligibility.
"I am left to conclude that the Democratic National Committee must either move up its nominating convention or the Ohio General Assembly must act by May 9, 2024 (90 days prior to a new law's effective date) to create an exception to this statutory requirement," legal counsel Paul Disantis wrote in the letter, requesting a quick response on a solution to become compliant with state law.
The Ohio Democratic Party confirmed to ABC News that they received the letter and are in the process of reviewing it.
Copied on the letter were top Ohio Democrats: Ohio House Minority Leader Allison Russo and Ohio Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio.
Ohio, a former battleground state, has shifted right in recent years.
They elected former President Donald Trump by eight points in both 2016 and 2020.
"We’re monitoring the situation in Ohio and we’re confident that Joe Biden will be on the ballot in all 50 states," a Biden campaign spokesperson confirmed to ABC News.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 1c6d&ei=44
"Biden could face challenges getting on Ohio general ballot"
6 APRIL 2024
There could be potential general election ballot access concerns for President Joe Biden in Ohio, the state's Secretary of State's office said in a letter to Ohio Democratic Chair Liz Walters on Friday.
In the letter, obtained by ABC News, legal counsel for Secretary of State Frank LaRose sought clarification for "an apparent conflict in Ohio law" between the Democratic National Committee's nominating process and the deadline by which the party's presidential nominee must be certified to the Secretary of State's office.
The Democratic National Convention is scheduled to convene on Aug. 19, which will take place more than a week after the Aug. 7 deadline to certify a presidential candidate in Ohio, the office flagged according to state code, which would create a problem for Biden's eligibility.
"I am left to conclude that the Democratic National Committee must either move up its nominating convention or the Ohio General Assembly must act by May 9, 2024 (90 days prior to a new law's effective date) to create an exception to this statutory requirement," legal counsel Paul Disantis wrote in the letter, requesting a quick response on a solution to become compliant with state law.
The Ohio Democratic Party confirmed to ABC News that they received the letter and are in the process of reviewing it.
Copied on the letter were top Ohio Democrats: Ohio House Minority Leader Allison Russo and Ohio Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio.
Ohio, a former battleground state, has shifted right in recent years.
They elected former President Donald Trump by eight points in both 2016 and 2020.
"We’re monitoring the situation in Ohio and we’re confident that Joe Biden will be on the ballot in all 50 states," a Biden campaign spokesperson confirmed to ABC News.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 1c6d&ei=44
Re: AMERICA'S FIGHTING BULLDOG JOE BIDEN
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 4, 2024 AT 9:17 PM
Paul Plante says:
And getting back to FEDERALIST No. 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, from the New York Packet on Friday, November 23, 1787 by Jemmy Madison to the People of the State of New York, where we were told by Jemmy that in his estimation, there are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects, with the two methods of removing the causes of faction with the one being to destroy the liberty which is essential to its existence, which is what we are seeing this autocrat Biden trying to do with all of his “WOKENESS” and EXECUTIVE ORDERS, while the other, also being employed by Joe Biden, is to give, or in this case, force each and every one of us to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist, Jemmy continues as follows, to wit:
The second expedient (force each and every one of us to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist is as impracticable as the first would be unwise.
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
end quotes
However, while on Friday, November 23, 1787, protecting the diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate might have been the first object of interest of government in Jemmy Madison’s mind and times, today, in April of 2024, under Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior and his WOKENESS, protecting those faculties is no longer an object of government under Joe, at all, which takes us back to Jemmy for more of what Joe Biden sees radically wrong with America today, to wit:
From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties.
end quote
And it is that which Joe Biden ends to stamp out with his DEI programs, where “equity” under Joe means complete equality in every way enforced by the federal government under Joe, which takes us back to Federalist No., 10, to wit:
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.
end quote
And as we head into November 2024 and the presidential contest of the century, if not millennium, that is exactly where we find ourselves as a nation, with our attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power having divided us into parties inflamed with mutual animosity, and rendered much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for our common good, which again takes us back to Jemmy, to wit:
So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts.
But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.
end quotes
And there, of course, is where Joe Biden’s equity policy comes into the picture as we shall see, but let’s go back to Federalist No. 10 to see where Jemmy is trying to take us, to wit:
Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.
Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination.
A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.
end quotes
And it is those different sentiments and views that Joe Biden seeks to crush to render us all perfectly equal in every way, which again takes us back to Jemmy. to wit:
It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the public good.
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
end quotes
And people, never has that been more true than it is today, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.
A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
end quotes
And that gets us to where we need to be to continue on when we return from a break for station identification with the Telegraph article “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024, where we will be told by the Brits, who don’t have to fear political retaliation by Joe, and so, don’t have to suck up to and grovel before Joe like the mainstream and legacy media in this country do, as follows, so stay tuned:
The passing this last week of Joe Lieberman, a long-time Connecticut Senator and former vice-presidential candidate, stands as reminder of how far the Democrats have moved from the kind of centrist politics that he so epitomised.
Lieberman was an older type of Democrat, someone who embraced the party’s defense of the working and middle classes, while also rallying to the cause of American patriotism.
The Democratic Party under the unsure and ever-wavering hand of President Joe Biden is none of these things.
Its base is increasingly found in the highly educated white middle and upper classes, the tech oligarchs and Wall Street.
In terms of the world, it is largely either isolationist or timid in the face of terrorist threats, and in the case of Hamas even seems ready to embrace them.
Starting in the 60s and 70s, largely due to the Vietnam War, the party adopted an agenda largely congruent with that of the European Left – obsessed with climate, gender, and race issues and deeply hostile to basic notions underpinning American civilisation.
These are positions that centrists like Lieberman nor his closest allies in the Clinton Administration could accept.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/paul-p ... ent-914980
Paul Plante says:
And getting back to FEDERALIST No. 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, from the New York Packet on Friday, November 23, 1787 by Jemmy Madison to the People of the State of New York, where we were told by Jemmy that in his estimation, there are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects, with the two methods of removing the causes of faction with the one being to destroy the liberty which is essential to its existence, which is what we are seeing this autocrat Biden trying to do with all of his “WOKENESS” and EXECUTIVE ORDERS, while the other, also being employed by Joe Biden, is to give, or in this case, force each and every one of us to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist, Jemmy continues as follows, to wit:
The second expedient (force each and every one of us to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist is as impracticable as the first would be unwise.
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
end quotes
However, while on Friday, November 23, 1787, protecting the diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate might have been the first object of interest of government in Jemmy Madison’s mind and times, today, in April of 2024, under Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior and his WOKENESS, protecting those faculties is no longer an object of government under Joe, at all, which takes us back to Jemmy for more of what Joe Biden sees radically wrong with America today, to wit:
From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties.
end quote
And it is that which Joe Biden ends to stamp out with his DEI programs, where “equity” under Joe means complete equality in every way enforced by the federal government under Joe, which takes us back to Federalist No., 10, to wit:
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.
end quote
And as we head into November 2024 and the presidential contest of the century, if not millennium, that is exactly where we find ourselves as a nation, with our attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power having divided us into parties inflamed with mutual animosity, and rendered much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for our common good, which again takes us back to Jemmy, to wit:
So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts.
But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.
end quotes
And there, of course, is where Joe Biden’s equity policy comes into the picture as we shall see, but let’s go back to Federalist No. 10 to see where Jemmy is trying to take us, to wit:
Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.
Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination.
A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.
end quotes
And it is those different sentiments and views that Joe Biden seeks to crush to render us all perfectly equal in every way, which again takes us back to Jemmy. to wit:
It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the public good.
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
end quotes
And people, never has that been more true than it is today, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.
A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
end quotes
And that gets us to where we need to be to continue on when we return from a break for station identification with the Telegraph article “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024, where we will be told by the Brits, who don’t have to fear political retaliation by Joe, and so, don’t have to suck up to and grovel before Joe like the mainstream and legacy media in this country do, as follows, so stay tuned:
The passing this last week of Joe Lieberman, a long-time Connecticut Senator and former vice-presidential candidate, stands as reminder of how far the Democrats have moved from the kind of centrist politics that he so epitomised.
Lieberman was an older type of Democrat, someone who embraced the party’s defense of the working and middle classes, while also rallying to the cause of American patriotism.
The Democratic Party under the unsure and ever-wavering hand of President Joe Biden is none of these things.
Its base is increasingly found in the highly educated white middle and upper classes, the tech oligarchs and Wall Street.
In terms of the world, it is largely either isolationist or timid in the face of terrorist threats, and in the case of Hamas even seems ready to embrace them.
Starting in the 60s and 70s, largely due to the Vietnam War, the party adopted an agenda largely congruent with that of the European Left – obsessed with climate, gender, and race issues and deeply hostile to basic notions underpinning American civilisation.
These are positions that centrists like Lieberman nor his closest allies in the Clinton Administration could accept.
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Re: AMERICA'S FIGHTING BULLDOG JOE BIDEN
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 6, 2024 AT 10:22 PM
Paul Plante says:
Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
Think about those words, people, which were stated by Jemmy Madison two hundred thirty-seven (237) years ago now on Friday, November 23, 1787, and what you are in fact reading about there is the Joe Biden administration, which administration is a TRUE BELIEVER that if only it can reduce mankind in America, which happens to be all of us in here today, to a perfect equality in our political rights, we would then, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in our possessions, our opinions, and our passions.
But then ask yourself this question: where and when in the history of mankind has a perfect equality in people’s political rights that would cause people to be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions ever freely existed without coercion by the “state?”
Consider, for example, Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 20 December 1679), who was an English philosopher best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory drawing mostly on his Epicurean political philosophy, whereby the rule of a strong authority, the sovereign, disciplines the wills of subjects in order to properly balance their passions, to the extent that a distinct domain of peace and security is created and maintained, a domain he mostly calls simply ‘society’.
That Hobbesian rule by the strong authority is what coercion (the act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do) is all about, and in America today, pursuant to the tenets of BIDE-O-NISM, it is Joe Biden himself who is that strong authority, the sovereign, here in America, who is there to discipline the wills of we, the American people, who are his subjects in order to properly balance our passions.
But let’s go to a Foreign Policy magazine article titled “Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi Have One Last Job – The U.S. treasury secretary and the Italian prime minister have spent decades shaping this economy. But can they control what comes next?” by Adam Tooze, a columnist at Foreign Policy and director of the European Institute at Columbia University on April 1, 2021, where we have as follows when that policy or approach is attempted here in America where we are and know we are, a free people, to wit:
Yellen and her colleagues in the United States have come face to face with structural problems of their own — in the U.S. financial system, the country’s profound social inequalities, its inadequate welfare state, and its deeply polarized politics.
For all their sense of having history on their side, what the modernizing technocrats of the Democratic Party faced, in fact, was a resurgence in conservatism.
It turned out that America’s rapid social, cultural, and economic transformation was splitting the country in half.
end quotes
Which takes us forward in time to The Telegraph article titled “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024, where we see where we have gotten to since then, thanks to Joe Biden and Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, who was quoted in an Associated Press article tilted “At Essence Festival, Yellen touts efforts to build ‘fairer economy,’ says much work still to do” on July 2, 2023 as saying “I strongly believe that our racial equity work is not just the morally right thing to do; it’s in the best economic interests of our entire country,” as follows:
The contrast between Lieberman and his old Senate colleague, Joe Biden, could not be greater.
Lieberman stuck to his views on defense and social issues, some of which reflected his embrace of orthodox Judaism.
In contrast Biden, once regarded as a centrist, has morphed into a progressive ideologue.
He has systematically weakened our defense posture, super-charged the debt credit card, and adopted identitarian politics to an almost absurd level.
This abandonment of basic centrist principles was institutionalised under Barack Obama.
The former president, unlike Biden, could express himself with great eloquence and, with great care, shifted the party away from the centrist Clinton model to one more in line with the activist base.
By the time he left office these policies generated enough resentment among the working class to help elect Donald Trump in 2016.
Four years ago, many of these same people, fed up with Trump’s rhetorical ugliness and drama-inducing antics, voted for Biden, thinking of him as a reassuring centrist.
But this turned out to be something of a feint.
Rather than rule from the middle and make Trump irrelevant, he doubled down wokeism.
Instead of working class Joe, we got someone whose agenda reflected more than values of the faculty lounge and the oligarchic elite.
The reaction among voters has been predictably hostile.
end quotes
So, thanks to BIDE-O-NISM, are we going from the frying pan into the fire?
The more Joe tries to make us all “equal,” which he can only do through coercion, the more he makes people hostile, instead, which takes us back to The Telegraph, to wit:
Despite all the hype about “Bidenomics”, a term now being abandoned by his handlers, the current economy offers young people little hope of owning a house, as buying a new home costs an estimated 80 per cent more than four years ago.
Party hacks like the New York Times Paul Krugman may castigate the masses for not recognising how great things are, but perhaps it’s because Biden has produced an economy that favours government workers and Wall Street over ordinary voters.
The fact that Dollar Tree, a key retailer in working class areas, is closing 1000 tells us more about the state of modern America than the improvement in sales in high-end retailers.
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So, the more Joe Biden tries to make us all equal, the more he is dividing us, and never in the three-quarters of a century I have been on the globe, have I seen anything like this in our country.
It don’t bode well for the future, people, but too late now, because the BIDEN TRAIN has left the station, and all we can do now is to survive the consequences.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/paul-p ... ent-914980
Paul Plante says:
Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
Think about those words, people, which were stated by Jemmy Madison two hundred thirty-seven (237) years ago now on Friday, November 23, 1787, and what you are in fact reading about there is the Joe Biden administration, which administration is a TRUE BELIEVER that if only it can reduce mankind in America, which happens to be all of us in here today, to a perfect equality in our political rights, we would then, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in our possessions, our opinions, and our passions.
But then ask yourself this question: where and when in the history of mankind has a perfect equality in people’s political rights that would cause people to be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions ever freely existed without coercion by the “state?”
Consider, for example, Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 20 December 1679), who was an English philosopher best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory drawing mostly on his Epicurean political philosophy, whereby the rule of a strong authority, the sovereign, disciplines the wills of subjects in order to properly balance their passions, to the extent that a distinct domain of peace and security is created and maintained, a domain he mostly calls simply ‘society’.
That Hobbesian rule by the strong authority is what coercion (the act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do) is all about, and in America today, pursuant to the tenets of BIDE-O-NISM, it is Joe Biden himself who is that strong authority, the sovereign, here in America, who is there to discipline the wills of we, the American people, who are his subjects in order to properly balance our passions.
But let’s go to a Foreign Policy magazine article titled “Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi Have One Last Job – The U.S. treasury secretary and the Italian prime minister have spent decades shaping this economy. But can they control what comes next?” by Adam Tooze, a columnist at Foreign Policy and director of the European Institute at Columbia University on April 1, 2021, where we have as follows when that policy or approach is attempted here in America where we are and know we are, a free people, to wit:
Yellen and her colleagues in the United States have come face to face with structural problems of their own — in the U.S. financial system, the country’s profound social inequalities, its inadequate welfare state, and its deeply polarized politics.
For all their sense of having history on their side, what the modernizing technocrats of the Democratic Party faced, in fact, was a resurgence in conservatism.
It turned out that America’s rapid social, cultural, and economic transformation was splitting the country in half.
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Which takes us forward in time to The Telegraph article titled “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024, where we see where we have gotten to since then, thanks to Joe Biden and Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, who was quoted in an Associated Press article tilted “At Essence Festival, Yellen touts efforts to build ‘fairer economy,’ says much work still to do” on July 2, 2023 as saying “I strongly believe that our racial equity work is not just the morally right thing to do; it’s in the best economic interests of our entire country,” as follows:
The contrast between Lieberman and his old Senate colleague, Joe Biden, could not be greater.
Lieberman stuck to his views on defense and social issues, some of which reflected his embrace of orthodox Judaism.
In contrast Biden, once regarded as a centrist, has morphed into a progressive ideologue.
He has systematically weakened our defense posture, super-charged the debt credit card, and adopted identitarian politics to an almost absurd level.
This abandonment of basic centrist principles was institutionalised under Barack Obama.
The former president, unlike Biden, could express himself with great eloquence and, with great care, shifted the party away from the centrist Clinton model to one more in line with the activist base.
By the time he left office these policies generated enough resentment among the working class to help elect Donald Trump in 2016.
Four years ago, many of these same people, fed up with Trump’s rhetorical ugliness and drama-inducing antics, voted for Biden, thinking of him as a reassuring centrist.
But this turned out to be something of a feint.
Rather than rule from the middle and make Trump irrelevant, he doubled down wokeism.
Instead of working class Joe, we got someone whose agenda reflected more than values of the faculty lounge and the oligarchic elite.
The reaction among voters has been predictably hostile.
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So, thanks to BIDE-O-NISM, are we going from the frying pan into the fire?
The more Joe tries to make us all “equal,” which he can only do through coercion, the more he makes people hostile, instead, which takes us back to The Telegraph, to wit:
Despite all the hype about “Bidenomics”, a term now being abandoned by his handlers, the current economy offers young people little hope of owning a house, as buying a new home costs an estimated 80 per cent more than four years ago.
Party hacks like the New York Times Paul Krugman may castigate the masses for not recognising how great things are, but perhaps it’s because Biden has produced an economy that favours government workers and Wall Street over ordinary voters.
The fact that Dollar Tree, a key retailer in working class areas, is closing 1000 tells us more about the state of modern America than the improvement in sales in high-end retailers.
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So, the more Joe Biden tries to make us all equal, the more he is dividing us, and never in the three-quarters of a century I have been on the globe, have I seen anything like this in our country.
It don’t bode well for the future, people, but too late now, because the BIDEN TRAIN has left the station, and all we can do now is to survive the consequences.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/paul-p ... ent-914980
Re: AMERICA'S FIGHTING BULLDOG JOE BIDEN
Newsweek
"Joe Biden 'Drives Me Crazy' — Former Obama Strategist"
Story by Thomas Kika
8 APRIL 2024
David Axelrod, the political consultant best known for his work as chief strategist for the successful campaigns of former President Barack Obama, recently expressed frustration with President Joe Biden's economic messaging, saying that his tactics were driving him "crazy."
Biden is currently running for reelection and is the presumptive 2024 nominee for the Democratic Party, setting up a likely 2020 rematch in November against the presumptive GOP nominee, former President Donald Trump.
Despite his conservative opponents frequently claiming that the economy has withered under his leadership, Biden has made the topic of economic growth during his term a key point of his reelection pitch.
Under the Biden administration, the United States has seen consistent job growth as it emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, with the most recent Labor Department report finding that 303,000 new jobs were created in March, bringing unemployment down to 3.8 percent.
Last February, the unemployment rate hit its lowest point in over 50 years, 3.4 percent.
Biden has overseen considerable drops in inflation and gas prices since they spiked in 2022, though the metrics remain temperamental.
The Dow Jones stock market index also hit its highest point in U.S. history in late February.
Despite this, perceptions about the economy among working-class voters have remained grim.
Biden's supporters have often pinned this discrepancy on persistent media narratives about economic troubles that have failed to credit the president for his successes.
Others have countered, pointing out that working-class people are still struggling with high prices in the areas that most impact their daily lives, such as groceries, housing, and automotive costs.
Among those criticizing Biden's economic messaging has been Axelrod, his one-time ally from his days as vice president in the Obama administration.
During an interview with Bulwark editor-at-large Bill Kristol last week, the political consultant said that Biden's economic message "drives [him] crazy," and urged him to adopt one that is more empathetic with the struggles of the working class, while still touting his economic accomplishments.
The remarks came in response to a recent comment Biden gave to NBC's Today when asked by Al Roker about people's concerns that their economic prospects are dwindling, to which the president said, "I would tell [them] we've got the strongest economy in the world."
"That is the wrong strategy," Axelrod said about Biden's response.
"The right strategy is to say, 'Look, we've made a lot of progress from the day I walked in the door as a country and I'm proud of our country for fighting through this pandemic and getting her back to where we've got this much employment."
"But the fact is, the way people experience this economy is the way I did when I was growing up in Scranton, Pennsylvania."
"How much did you pay for the groceries?"
"How do you afford the gas, [and] the rent?"
"'And these continue to be a problem and I'm fighting that fight'...So I think he needs to put himself on the side of working people in their economic fight here."
Newsweek reached out to the White House via email on Sunday for comment.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... e5e5&ei=12
"Joe Biden 'Drives Me Crazy' — Former Obama Strategist"
Story by Thomas Kika
8 APRIL 2024
David Axelrod, the political consultant best known for his work as chief strategist for the successful campaigns of former President Barack Obama, recently expressed frustration with President Joe Biden's economic messaging, saying that his tactics were driving him "crazy."
Biden is currently running for reelection and is the presumptive 2024 nominee for the Democratic Party, setting up a likely 2020 rematch in November against the presumptive GOP nominee, former President Donald Trump.
Despite his conservative opponents frequently claiming that the economy has withered under his leadership, Biden has made the topic of economic growth during his term a key point of his reelection pitch.
Under the Biden administration, the United States has seen consistent job growth as it emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, with the most recent Labor Department report finding that 303,000 new jobs were created in March, bringing unemployment down to 3.8 percent.
Last February, the unemployment rate hit its lowest point in over 50 years, 3.4 percent.
Biden has overseen considerable drops in inflation and gas prices since they spiked in 2022, though the metrics remain temperamental.
The Dow Jones stock market index also hit its highest point in U.S. history in late February.
Despite this, perceptions about the economy among working-class voters have remained grim.
Biden's supporters have often pinned this discrepancy on persistent media narratives about economic troubles that have failed to credit the president for his successes.
Others have countered, pointing out that working-class people are still struggling with high prices in the areas that most impact their daily lives, such as groceries, housing, and automotive costs.
Among those criticizing Biden's economic messaging has been Axelrod, his one-time ally from his days as vice president in the Obama administration.
During an interview with Bulwark editor-at-large Bill Kristol last week, the political consultant said that Biden's economic message "drives [him] crazy," and urged him to adopt one that is more empathetic with the struggles of the working class, while still touting his economic accomplishments.
The remarks came in response to a recent comment Biden gave to NBC's Today when asked by Al Roker about people's concerns that their economic prospects are dwindling, to which the president said, "I would tell [them] we've got the strongest economy in the world."
"That is the wrong strategy," Axelrod said about Biden's response.
"The right strategy is to say, 'Look, we've made a lot of progress from the day I walked in the door as a country and I'm proud of our country for fighting through this pandemic and getting her back to where we've got this much employment."
"But the fact is, the way people experience this economy is the way I did when I was growing up in Scranton, Pennsylvania."
"How much did you pay for the groceries?"
"How do you afford the gas, [and] the rent?"
"'And these continue to be a problem and I'm fighting that fight'...So I think he needs to put himself on the side of working people in their economic fight here."
Newsweek reached out to the White House via email on Sunday for comment.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... e5e5&ei=12
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REUTERS
"US will not accept Chinese imports decimating new industries, Yellen says"
By David Lawder
April 8, 2024
BEIJING, April 8 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned China on Monday that Washington will not accept new industries being decimated by Chinese imports, as she wrapped up four days of meetings to press her case for Beijing to rein in excess industrial capacity.
Yellen told a press conference that U.S. President Joe Biden would not allow a repeat of the "China shock" of the early 2000s, when a flood of Chinese imports destroyed about 2 million American manufacturing jobs.
She did not, however, threaten new tariffs or other trade actions should Beijing continue its massive state support for electric vehicles (EVs), batteries, solar panels and other green energy goods.
Yellen used her second trip to China in nine months to complain that Beijing's overinvestment has built factory capacity far exceeding domestic demand, while fast-growing exports of these products threaten companies in the U.S. and other countries.
She said a newly created exchange forum to discuss the excess capacity issue would need time to reach solutions.
Yellen drew parallels to the pain felt in the U.S. steel sector in the past.
"We've seen this story before," she told reporters.
"Over a decade ago, massive PRC (People's Republic of China) government support led to below-cost Chinese steel that flooded the global market and decimated industries across the world and in the United States."
Yellen added: "I've made it clear that President Biden and I will not accept that reality again."
When the global market is flooded with artificially cheap Chinese products, she said, "the viability of American and other foreign firms is put into question."
Yellen said her exchanges with Chinese officials had advanced American interests and that U.S. concerns over excess industrial capacity were shared by Washington's European allies, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines and other emerging markets.
PUSHBACK
China's vice finance minister, Liao Min, told Chinese media that Beijing "has fully responded" to U.S. questions on overcapacity and expressed "grave concern" over restrictions Washington imposes on trade and investment.
Liao said China's "current competitive advantages are rooted in China's large-scale market, complete industrial system and abundant human resources," decrying the "escalation of green protectionist measures by some developed economies."
"China will not sit idly and ignore it," Liao said in remarks published on the ministry's website.
China's parliament, the National People's Congress, said in March the government would take steps to curb industrial overcapacity.
But Beijing says the recent focus by the U.S. and Europe on the risks from China's excess capacity is misguided.
Chinese officials say the criticism understates innovation by companies in China and overstates the importance of state support in driving their growth.
They also say tariffs or other trade curbs will deprive global consumers of green energy alternatives key to meeting global climate goals.
WTO RULES Trade curbs on Chinese EVs would contravene World Trade Organisation rules, the industry and information technology ministry said in a statement carried by state media CCTV and China Daily.
The Chinese ministry added that it was committed to support EV exports and would help "accelerate the overseas development" of the industry including planning for shipping and logistics and support for firms to innovate and meet global standards.
Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao voiced more pointed objections during a roundtable meeting with Chinese EV makers in Paris, saying U.S. and European assertions of Chinese excess EV capacity were groundless.
Rather than subsidies, China's EV companies rely on continuous technological innovation, perfect production and supply chain systems and full market competition, Wang said on his trip to discuss a European Union anti-subsidy inquiry.
Yellen suggested a possible short-term solution was for China to take steps to bolster consumer demand with support for households and shift its growth model away from supply-side investments.
Yellen spoke about the issue at length with Premier Li Qiang and also met Finance Minister Lan Foan on Sunday.
She met People's Bank of China (PBOC) Governor Pan Gongsheng and former Vice Premier Liu He on Monday.
In a CNBC interview after the meetings, Yellen said she was "not thinking so much" about trade curbs on China, as much as shifts in its macroeconomic environment.
But she reiterated she would not rule out tariffs.
Writing by David Lawder and Marius Zaharia; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Paul Simao
https://www.reuters.com/world/yellen-me ... 024-04-08/
"US will not accept Chinese imports decimating new industries, Yellen says"
By David Lawder
April 8, 2024
BEIJING, April 8 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned China on Monday that Washington will not accept new industries being decimated by Chinese imports, as she wrapped up four days of meetings to press her case for Beijing to rein in excess industrial capacity.
Yellen told a press conference that U.S. President Joe Biden would not allow a repeat of the "China shock" of the early 2000s, when a flood of Chinese imports destroyed about 2 million American manufacturing jobs.
She did not, however, threaten new tariffs or other trade actions should Beijing continue its massive state support for electric vehicles (EVs), batteries, solar panels and other green energy goods.
Yellen used her second trip to China in nine months to complain that Beijing's overinvestment has built factory capacity far exceeding domestic demand, while fast-growing exports of these products threaten companies in the U.S. and other countries.
She said a newly created exchange forum to discuss the excess capacity issue would need time to reach solutions.
Yellen drew parallels to the pain felt in the U.S. steel sector in the past.
"We've seen this story before," she told reporters.
"Over a decade ago, massive PRC (People's Republic of China) government support led to below-cost Chinese steel that flooded the global market and decimated industries across the world and in the United States."
Yellen added: "I've made it clear that President Biden and I will not accept that reality again."
When the global market is flooded with artificially cheap Chinese products, she said, "the viability of American and other foreign firms is put into question."
Yellen said her exchanges with Chinese officials had advanced American interests and that U.S. concerns over excess industrial capacity were shared by Washington's European allies, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines and other emerging markets.
PUSHBACK
China's vice finance minister, Liao Min, told Chinese media that Beijing "has fully responded" to U.S. questions on overcapacity and expressed "grave concern" over restrictions Washington imposes on trade and investment.
Liao said China's "current competitive advantages are rooted in China's large-scale market, complete industrial system and abundant human resources," decrying the "escalation of green protectionist measures by some developed economies."
"China will not sit idly and ignore it," Liao said in remarks published on the ministry's website.
China's parliament, the National People's Congress, said in March the government would take steps to curb industrial overcapacity.
But Beijing says the recent focus by the U.S. and Europe on the risks from China's excess capacity is misguided.
Chinese officials say the criticism understates innovation by companies in China and overstates the importance of state support in driving their growth.
They also say tariffs or other trade curbs will deprive global consumers of green energy alternatives key to meeting global climate goals.
WTO RULES Trade curbs on Chinese EVs would contravene World Trade Organisation rules, the industry and information technology ministry said in a statement carried by state media CCTV and China Daily.
The Chinese ministry added that it was committed to support EV exports and would help "accelerate the overseas development" of the industry including planning for shipping and logistics and support for firms to innovate and meet global standards.
Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao voiced more pointed objections during a roundtable meeting with Chinese EV makers in Paris, saying U.S. and European assertions of Chinese excess EV capacity were groundless.
Rather than subsidies, China's EV companies rely on continuous technological innovation, perfect production and supply chain systems and full market competition, Wang said on his trip to discuss a European Union anti-subsidy inquiry.
Yellen suggested a possible short-term solution was for China to take steps to bolster consumer demand with support for households and shift its growth model away from supply-side investments.
Yellen spoke about the issue at length with Premier Li Qiang and also met Finance Minister Lan Foan on Sunday.
She met People's Bank of China (PBOC) Governor Pan Gongsheng and former Vice Premier Liu He on Monday.
In a CNBC interview after the meetings, Yellen said she was "not thinking so much" about trade curbs on China, as much as shifts in its macroeconomic environment.
But she reiterated she would not rule out tariffs.
Writing by David Lawder and Marius Zaharia; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Paul Simao
https://www.reuters.com/world/yellen-me ... 024-04-08/