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Joe Biden scores huge revenge on Donald Trump

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by Frank Holmes, reporter

There are two hard-and-fast rules in politics.

First, winning is everything. Second, if you lose, you want revenge—hard, dirty, and as devastating as possible.

Nobody loved winning more than Joe Biden, who came out victorious in every election he ever ran in since he got elected to the Senate at the age of 29.

Every election, that is, until 2024, when President Donald Trump beat his replacement, Vice President Kamala Harris, like a drum and set out to erase everything Biden accomplished in four years.

Democratic pundits said Harris could have won if she had distanced herself a little more from President Biden’s legacy of high gas prices, a poor economy, and endless U.S. taxpayer funding of foreign wars.

But Biden is smiling today, as a new poll shows Americans are split dead-even over when they felt better off: durign Biden’s last year in office or President Trump’s first.

That’s right: Americans think they were as well-off under Joe Biden as they are under Donald Trump.

A poll from the conservative website The Center Square came out as a perfect 50-50 split on which president did a better job on economics and foreign policy.

The disappointing Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll surveyed 2,659 people from March 2-5, just after the launch of the war with Iran, and the sample included more Republicans (952) than Democrats (934). “Independents give Biden a slight edge over Trump, 52% to 48%” on the economy, the outlet reported.

They favored Biden’s foreign policy by one point higher.

In 15 months, Joe Biden went from being so toxic that his own party wouldn’t nominate him for a second term to being tied with President Trump.

Somewhere, he and “Dr. Jill” are celebrating over a glass of champagne. (Hunter Biden may be having something stronger.)

The worst news is, the surprising poll from the center-right Center Square isn’t the only one that has the Biden family grinning.

Americans elected President Trump because they said Joe Biden forgot about U.S. citizens. But two-thirds of registered independents said President Trump is “focused too little” on the well-being of Americans at home in a YouGov/CBS News poll taken last Friday

Overall, 61 percent of Americans rate the economy “fairly bad” or “very bad,” and 62 percent oppose President Trump’s actions in Operation Epic Fury.

The poll showed the White House bleeding support even among the president’s most die-hard, base voters. The number of self-described “MAGA supporters” who think the U.S. economy is improving fell below a majority for the first time, to 47 percent—a 17-point drop in one month.

Experts warn that rising gasoline prices caused by the Iran war spell could fuel the Democratic Party back into control of Congress this November.

“Because of all of these foreign trips and foreign focus over the last year, you have squandered what could have been, otherwise, an electorally palatable night” during the midterm elections, said Raheem Kassam, editor-in-chief of The National Pulse, a strongly pro-Trump, MAGA news website.

What’s worse, some of Trump’s first-time voters apparently couldn’t care less if the whole Trump presidency comes to a premature end.

This week at the nation’s largest gathering of conservatives, CPAC, organizer Matt Schlapp warned young activists of dire consequences if Democrats won the midterms.

“How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings of President Trump?” he asked. To his shock, the crowd broke out into cheers.

When Schlapp told them they gave “the wrong answer,” some still cheered, and most sounded confused about why they should care.

The Democrats have already milked America’s problems for political gain, as one of the most liberal news outlets in America admits.

Thanks to the Democrats’ partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, the average time it takes passengers to move through airport security lines jumped from 15 or 25 minutes to upwards of five hours at major hubs like Atlanta, Houston, and New York.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., signed off on a Democratic plan to fund the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and most DHS agencies except Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (ICE is already funded through the One Big Beautiful Bill.)

But the deal could have been inked earlier, except for the pain Democrats inflicted on travelers, according to PBS.

Long airport security “lines are actually making it more difficult to reach a solution right now,” because polling shows more “Americans blame Republicans for what’s happening at our airports than blame Democrats,” said PBS NewsHour Congressional Correspondent Lisa Desjardins on Monday. Only a fraction of Americans fly the friendly skies, but almost 100 percent drive, and that’s where they hemorrhage money and the president loses votes, one fill-up at a time. Under Joe Biden, in June 2022, gasoline prices reached an all-time high of $5.10 a gallon. But average gas prices are already up $1 a gallon since February, with no end in sight. After choking off oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian officials have threatened to close another strait: the Bab el-Mandeb Strait near Yemen, which carries 10 percent of the world’s oil. That could drive oil prices to $150 a barrel.

Imagine gas topping $6 a gallon, almost a dollar higher than the steepest price in U.S. history, during President Trump’s second term.

Imagine trying to run for Congress with that record. Then maybe you can imagine how Kamala Harris’ campaign manager felt in 2024.

Right now, President Trump is shrugging off the bad news, choosing to believe the counsel of his inner circle that the war is popular and Americans are happy to feel a little “short-term pain for long-term gain.” But the polls tell another story, which may explain why President Trump complained on The Five Thursday, “I hate Fox polls. Honestly, whoever does your polls, they’re terrible.”

But it doesn’t matter who did the polls: Right now, President Trump is down in all of them.

President Trump’s overall job approval rating is 15 points underwater, according to the average of multiple surveys conducted by RealClear Polling.

If President Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and his advisers don’t return America to lower gas prices and a stronger economy fast, even worse polls will follow to make Trump mad and congressional Republicans nervous.

And Joe and Jill Biden smile.

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.”