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Opinion Joe Biden must go left and right at the same time
President Biden on Wednesday. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Wherever these voters stand on tax cuts or regulation, they understand that Donald Trump is the true radical in this contest. He has said he would be a dictator (only for a day, he insists), has mobilized a violent crowd to overturn the 2020 election, has attacked the judiciary and has threatened to use prosecutorial power to punish political opponents.
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Republicans, for example, split on whether the country needed a leader willing to break rules to get back on track (56 percent agreed, 43 percent disagreed), on permitting religion to play a role in government policy (40 percent agreed, 58 percent disagree), on granting immunity to a president who committed crimes while in office (34 percent agreed, 63 percent disagreed), and on recognizing Biden as the legitimate winner of the 2020 election (38 percent agreed, 61 percent disagreed).
Democrats, by contrast, were far more united against rule-breaking, against religion in government policy and against granting a president immunity. Unsurprisingly, nearly all saw Biden as the legitimate election winner.
But Biden cant win simply by making a conservative case for himself, not only because he needs progressive voters to turn out in large numbers but also because he has to show how he responded to the economic discontent that Trumps 2016 victory brought home.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/07/biden-progressive-conservative-challenge-election/
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Opinion Joe Biden must go left and right at the same time (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Apr 7
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samsingh
(17,600 posts)1. Biden has done more for the youth of America than anyone i remember
Uncle Joe
(58,409 posts)2. I believe the same as you, but I also believe that today's youth
face the toughest futuristic odds to date as compared to all generations before from a species survival standpoint.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)3. IMO, Bullshit.
it's JMO.