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Dems entire 2024 campaign just blew up in their face

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“On the Holmes Front” with Frank Holmes

The Democrats are living through a nightmare—and not just because of Joe Biden’s disqualifying debate performance.

The problem plaguing the Democratic Party and causing its most bitter partisans to have sleepless nights is far deeper than a one-night performance, or even a four-year record of destroying the country.

Not only do voters not accept the primary message Democrats have campaigned on for four years, but a new poll shows they actually believe the opposite.

Faced with a sluggish economy, enormous inflation, and an uncontrolled illegal immigrant crime wave the Democrats had to turn to one message: Donald Trump is a dictator who will wreck “our democracy.”

The “democracy message” has been front-and-center in Democratic TV spots, online ads, fundraising and get-out-the-vote emails, speeches, and TV interviews since before the last election.

But a recent poll found voters trust Donald Trump more than Joe Biden on the issue of preserving “our democracy.”

The poll, taken by The Washington Post and George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, interviewed 3,513 voters in the key swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. They also singled out another 2,255 as “deciders,” voters whose voice will have a special impact.

“Which candidate do you think would do a better job handling…threats to democracy in the U.S.?” they asked.

It wasn’t even close.

Among all swing state voters, Trump beat Biden by 11 points — 44 percent to 33 percent.

His lead with “deciders” was a closer but still substantial nine points (38 percent to 29 percent).

The big problem, according to the pollsters, is that when conservative and centrist voters think about “threats to democracy,” they don’t think of Trump… they think of the Biden administration.

Biden has cherry-picked or twisted quotations about Trump saying he wants a “bloodbath,” having a third term, or being the world’s most short-term “dictator” (but only on his first day in office).

Swing state voters don’t buy it from Biden.

Non-liberals say the real threats to democracy come from the Biden administration and the Democratic Party—trying to throw a political opponent in jail, planning to reward millions of illegal aliens with U.S. citizenship and voting privileges, even suing to deny voters the right to cast their ballot for Donald Trump at all.

Conservatives gloated, just a little bit, over the humiliating poll results.

That happened “even though this is basically the entire Dem platform and has been since Biden took office,” said conservative writer Philip Reichert.

Of course, the legacy media didn’t take the news easily.

“Good news for Joe Biden and the Democratic Party: the swing-state voters most likely to decide the election believe that democracy is on the ballot in November,” said the reliably liberal New Republic magazine.

“The problem: they trust Donald Trump to protect it more than Biden.”

This isn’t a minor setback: It’s the Biden campaign’s entire election strategy: “Orange man bad.”

Axios reports Joe Biden’s entire “theory for victory in November, which relies on voter concerns about Jan. 6, political violence, democracy and Donald Trump’s character.”

“Senior Democrats, including some of President Biden’s aides, are increasingly dubious about” it, Axios reported—two weeks before Biden’s performance in the debate.

“It is unclear to many of us watching from the outside whether the president and his core team realize how dire the situation is right now, and whether they even have a plan to fix it,” said an anonymous Democratic strategist who has ties to the Biden re-election campaign. “That is scary.”

But Biden tripled-down on the losing campaign theme. The Biden-Harris campaign opened a new website logging “Trump’s plans to destroy our democracy” on the morning of the debate. And some Democrats are bitterly clinging to the dictator shtick to the bitter end.

“Trump was talking down our democracy. That was alarming for me. It was daylight and darkness,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom, whose name has been floated as a possible replacement for Biden if he steps aside.

Newsom decided to go all-in on the democracy message just after saying, “Joe Biden won the debate.”

To make matters worse for Biden, a separate survey shows Americans see Trump as more presidential than he is.

The Gallup poll found 46 percent of voters said Trump had “the personality and leadership qualities a president needs” to succeed. “Fewer Americans, 38%, think Biden possesses such personality and leadership qualities.”

Now, throw in Biden’s blank-stare-and-open-mouthed debate turn, and Democrats can’t get rid of him fast enough.

Politico rushed out an article titled, “Here’s how Democrats could replace Biden.”

“Democrats Question Replacing Biden: Here’s How It Could Work,” reports Bloomberg News.

Of course, if they follow through, it will make voters trust Democrats even less.

Voters already favor Donald Trump over the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee to protect democracy. But imagine if Democrats overturn their own primaries, ignore millions of Democratic base voters, and let a handful of superdelegates pick a new, unvetted presidential candidate.

Replacing their own, duly elected nominee would be the ultimate proof that the Democrats are trying to destroy democracy.

About the Author

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”