Biden’s Tumble Could Foreshadow Democrats’ Election Hopes
Democrats running for election in November are increasingly distancing themselves from unpopular President and Vice President
This past Saturday President Biden tumbled off his bicycle. During his weekly weekend vacation in Rehoboth Beach in Delaware Biden was riding his bike when he spotted a small knot of people and coasted to a stop in front of them.
Then when he tried to dismount his right foot got caught in the toe clip on the pedal, causing him to crash to the pavement. People who ride bikes say it is not uncommon to get a toe stuck in the clips and his boosters quickly claimed that it says nothing about his age or physical or mental capacity since anyone can fall off a bike.
But I watched the video of it, from several angles since camera crews and people with cell phones recorded the incident. Biden clearly raised his left leg to get off the bike, while his right foot was still in the toe clip, on the pedal. Is it normal for someone to start getting off a bicycle before having a foot planted on the ground?
Many Reasons to Question Biden’s Abilities
Saturday’s incident is just one of the reasons many people, even those who vote Democrat, are questioning Biden’s fitness for holding the highest office in the land. Add to that the fact that Biden has run the country with all the subtlety of a bull in a china shop. He’s smashed and destroyed pretty much everything he’s touched – troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, gas prices, inflation, immigration, the supply chain, even a baby formula shortage.
He has a hard time uttering complete sentences and sometimes seems to wander aimlessly on stage to the point that few can miss the fact that age has not been kind to him.
In fact, Biden’s popularity rating is now the lowest of all time. Even Democrat voters disapprove of his handling of the economy and immigration. And that’s bad news for the Democrats with the mid-term elections looming.
Currently the Democrats hold a slim majority in the House of Representatives (221-208, with six vacancies) but a number of Democrats have already announced they will retire at the end of this term. There’s a very real chance that in November Republicans will become the majority and maybe by quite a bit.
In the Senate the Democrats hold a technical majority. In reality, there are 50 Republicans and 48 Democrats with two independents, but since those independents side with the Democrats, it’s a tie. And the tiebreaker is the President of the Senate, which is the vice president, so all ties go the Democrats. Like in the House, there is a definite probability that Republicans will gain majority control in the Senate.
Biden’s popularity is so bad that a number of the Democrat candidates, especially in closely contested races, are distancing themselves from him and his unpopular policies.
A Prediction for the Near Future
So here’s what I predict what will happen in the next four months ahead of the midterm elections.
Not only will Democrat candidates continue to distance themselves from Biden, but the national media will begin to cast doubt about Biden’s competency. That way they can claim that the problems aren’t caused by failed Democrat policies but by Biden’s failing mental health. In fact, it’s already beginning to happen.
But they can’t go all out on this just yet because calls to replace Biden would result in Vice President Kamala Harris taking over as President and, as unbelievable as it sounds, she’s even more unpopular than Biden. Remember, she only gained 3 percent of the votes in the Democrat primaries.
Harris was chosen for the job based on her gender and skin color, not any aptitude for the job, which many doubted. She’s done nothing to change minds since the election – in fact, she has proved repeatedly that everyone who doubted her abilities was absolutely right.
So I believe that sometime this summer, probably around August, there will be some reason that Harris will have to step down as Vice President. She’ll be replaced by someone who will be more popular and a better choice to replace Biden.
This is no easy task since the Democrats really have no one who could fit that description. The most popular people are just as old as Biden. The younger ones are just as inept as Harris. It will probably be the governor of a Democrat state that has done well despite the economy, which also won’t be easy to find.
Eventually they’ll have Biden step down. When that’ll happen depends a bit on how awful things are going for the Democrat Congressional candidates. It could happen by October, if the new VP shows any measure of popularity with voters. But I think they’ll save this for after the election, hoping against hope that somehow they’ll win. Then it won’t look like some election ploy. Otherwise, he’ll become the scapegoat for why they lost.
But if they do all of that, including replacing Biden in October, and the Democrats are still running behind in the midterms, the Democrats will surely try something else.
Right now it’s the January 6 kangaroo court but they’re finding the American public is spectacularly uninterested in it. They’ll try gun control, racism, monkeypox, a return of covid, even allegations of election fraud.
Unless they can somehow mesmerize the general public or pull off some election shenanigans, the Democrats’ hopes to retain control of Congress after the November election look about the same as Biden’s ability to gracefully dismount from a bicycle.