Joe Biden (right), 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, speaks as former U.S. President Donald Trump (left) listens during the U.S. presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., on Thursday, October 22nd, 2020.
On the eve of the first 2024 American presidential debate, which CNN will host, Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden in national polls by four percentage points.
It is noteworthy that Trump has maintained a slight polling lead over Biden for over a year. The former president has achieved this statistical feat despite his civil and criminal court convictions and numerous legal issues pending adjudication.
Here at Public Health Policy Reviews, we have not shied away from our speculations on why Mr. Biden struggles to win over the American electorate. Allow us to boldly share ever more reasons Mr. Biden might lose to a convicted tax fraudster with a civil judgment for sexual assault against him.
As we encourage people to save democracy from Donald Trump, we must do so with a clear understanding of who we will align ourselves with.
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Senator and future US President Joe Biden and former President Jimmy Carter in 1979. Photo image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
In the 1970s, Senator Joe Biden formed alliances with conservative Republicans to oppose integrating America’s public schools.
In the 1990s, Senator Biden formed alliances with President Bill Clinton and conservative democrats to betray Black Americans via welfare reform and the 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill. In the 2000s, Senator Biden voted for the Iraq war.
As former President Barack Obama’s Vice President from 2008 to 2016, Mr. Biden helped Obama prioritize protecting and “bailing out” the finance industry with tax revenues while refusing to raise the minimum wage for working people. The Obama administration undercut federal health insurance and pharmaceutical industry regulations as they watered down their historic healthcare reform efforts.
In 2021 and 2022, as President, Biden gave progressives and liberals false hope while allowing Senator Joe Manchin and Senator Krysten Sinema to purge the working-class and family-friendly policy proposals from the legislative bills he created.
“Build Back Better” is now rotting in the dustbin of failed congressional legislative history.
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Abigail Spanberger speaks at a campaign rally in Virginia in 2018. Photo image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
Politically moderate Virginia Democratic Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger helped Biden, Manchin, and Sinema obliterate “Build Back Better” in the summer of 2021.
After Virginia Democrats lost the state governor’s race in November 2021, Representative Spanberger blamed progressives and Black Americans for the humiliating defeats they suffered. So, African American, progressive, and young voters should prepare for a repeat of the “blame game” should Mr. Biden lose to Trump this November.
However, Biden’s most concerning political strategy is the “politics of appeasement.” President Biden and Congressional Democrats failed to investigate and prosecute any of the legislators in Congress who attempted to help Donald Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Allow us to reprint the complete list of Republican legislators in the US Senate and House of Representatives who attempted to “stab American democracy in the back” on January 6th, 2021.
IF Mr. Biden and the DNC had any semblance of political backbone, the January 6th attack on the US Capitol would be a leading political issue in tonight’s debate on CNN.
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WE CAN NOT FORGET The names of every Republican who supported former President Donald Trump’s seditious actions against American democracy in 2020.
US Senator Ted Cruz (R - Texas). Photo image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
United States Senate
· Ted Cruz, TEXAS.
· Josh Hawley, MISSOURI.
· Tommy Tuberville, ALABAMA.
· Rick Scott, FLORIDA.
· Roger Marshall, KANSAS.
· John Kennedy, LOUISIANA.
· Cindy Hyde-Smith, MISSISSIPI.
· Cynthia Lummis, WYOMING.
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Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson (R - Louisiana). Photo image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
United States House of Representatives
ALABAMA
· Robert B. Aderholt, Mo Brooks, Jerry Carl, Barry Moore, Gary Palmer, and Mike Rogers.
ARIZONA
· Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Debbie Lesko, and David Schweikert.
ARKANSAS
· Rick Crawford.
CALIFORNIA
· Ken Calvert, Mike Garcia, Darrell Issa, Doug LaMalfa, Kevin McCarthy, Devin Nunes, and Jay Obernolte.
COLORADO
· Lauren Boebert and Doug Lamborn.
FLORIDA
· Kat Cammack, Mario Diaz-Balart, Byron Donalds, Neal Dunn, Scott Franklin, Matt Gaetz, Carlos Gimenez, Brian Mast, Bill Posey, John Rutherford, Greg Steube, and Daniel Webster.
GEORGIA
· Rick Allen, Earl L. “Buddy” Carter, Andrew Clyde, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jody Hice, and Barry Loudermilk.
IDAHO
· Russ Fulcher.
ILLINOIS
· Mike Bost and Mary Miller.
INDIANA
· Jim Baird, Jim Banks, Greg Pence, and Jackie Walorski.
KANSAS
· Ron Estes, Jacob LaTurner, and Tracey Mann.
KENTUCKY
· Harold Rogers.
LOUISIANA
· Garret Graves, Clay Higgins, Mike Johnson, and Steve Scalise.
MARYLAND
· Andy Harris.
MICHIGAN
· Jack Bergman, Lisa McClain, and Tim Walberg.
MINNESOTA
· Michelle Fischbach and Jim Hagedorn.
MISSISSIPPI
· Michael Guest, Trent Kelly, and Steven Palazzo.
MISSOURI
· Sam Graves, Vicky Hartzler, Billy Long, Blaine Luetkemeyer, and Jason Smith.
MONTANA
· Matt Rosendale.
NORTH CAROLINA
· Dan Bishop, Ted Budd, Madison Cawthorn, Virginia Foxx, Richard Hudson, Gregory F. Murphy, and David Rouzer.
NEW JERSEY
· Jeff Van Drew.
NEW MEXICO
· Yvette Herrell.
NEW YORK
· Chris Jacobs, Nicole Malliotakis, Elise M. Stefanik, and Lee Zeldin.
NEBRASKA
· Adrian Smith.
OHIO
· Steve Chabot, Warren Davidson, Bob Gibbs, Bill Johnson, and Jim Jordan.
OKLAHOMA
· Stephanie Bice, Tom Cole, Kevin Hern, Frank Lucas, and Markwayne Mullin.
OREGON
· Cliff Bentz.
PENNSYLVANIA
· John Joyce, Fred Keller, Mike Kelly, Daniel Meuser, Scott Perry, Guy Reschenthaler, Lloyd Smucker, and Glenn Thompson.
SOUTH CAROLINA
· Jeff Duncan, Ralph Norman, Tom Rice, William Timmons, and Joe Wilson.
TENNESEE
· Tim Burchett, Scott DesJarlais, Chuck Fleischmann, Mark E. Green, Diana Harshbarger, David Kustoff, and John Rose.
TEXAS
· Jodey Arrington, Brian Babin, Michael C. Burgess, John R. Carter, Michael Cloud, Pat Fallon, Louie Gohmert, Lance Gooden, Ronny Jackson, Troy Nehls, August Pfluger, Pete Sessions, Beth Van Duyne, Randy Weber, Roger Williams, and Ron Wright.
UTAH
· Burgess Owens and Chris Stewart.
VIRGINIA
· Ben Cline, Bob Good, Morgan Griffith, and Robert J. Wittman.
WEST VIRGINIA
· Carol Miller and Alexander X. Mooney.
WISCONSIN
· Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Tiffany.