There’s a gathering sense that President Biden’s response to the war in Gaza may cost him the 2024 election. A recent Gallup poll showed that his support among Democrats has slipped 11 points in the past month to 75 percent, the lowest of his presidency. On Friday my colleagues in the newsroom reported on a growing backlash against Biden coming from young and left-leaning voters.

Does this mean that standing with Israel could be politically fatal for Biden? I don’t think so, and to understand why, it’s important to understand the core responsibilities of an American president.

In 2012, when I was a partisan supporter of Mitt Romney, there was one message from President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign that I thought made the most succinct and persuasive case for his second term. It was delivered most memorably by then-Vice President Biden, of all people, at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. He said that Obama had “courage in his soul, compassion in his heart and a spine of steel,” and then Biden delivered the key line: “Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.”

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    well plug our nose

    The liberal version of ‘I Could … Shoot Somebody, And I Wouldn’t Lose Any Voters.’ and why politicians are total garbage, they are never held accountable for their actions. They can kill and their lemmings dont care.

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      Not at all. The alternative that “your side” will put forth literally tried to overthrow the last election he lost. Are we supposed to vote for that loser???

      Lol

      Hell he will probably be in jail.

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        I love the binary thinking of liberals that assume a critique of their shitty party makes someone a republican, or vice versa.

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          Maybe you should reread your own post…lol you established the US vs them mentality. Also if u walk like a fuck and talk Like a fuck you’re probably going to get mistaken for a fuck.

          My point is you only get 2 chances to vote for the winner with fptp. So u either vote trump or Biden…or u vote for a guaranteed loser.

          I assumed u wouldn’t vote for a guaranteed loser but I guess I was wrong.

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            Then Dems better support a 3rd party to get FPTP. I don’t vote for who I think will win like the rest of the lemmings. I vote my conscience, and that doesn’t include either right wing party.