Joe Biden apparently told Barack Obama that he intends to run for
re-election in 2024.
I think this is something that we all suspected anyway.
But the latest reporting comes from the hill to people spoke to the hill on
condition of anonymity.
But regardless of whether or not they were anonymous again,
we kind of expected this to happen.
The anonymous source told the Hill, quote, Biden wants to run, and
he's clearly letting everyone know.
I believe he thinks, get a load of this.
He's the only one who can beat trump.
I don't think he thinks there's anyone in the Democratic Party who can beat trump,
and that's the biggest factor.
>> They're so out of just, yeah, yeah.
>> You can't use the same lie that you used in 2020 after you've
already served for years and made it abundantly clear that your policies or
the way that you've governed is unpopular.
And and we're going to provide evidence of just how unpopular Biden has been, and
he wasn't always unpopular, especially with his base.
But we'll get to that in just a second.
He's indicated this in conversations before, by the way,
during a press conference in Brussels last month,
he told reporters that he'd be very fortunate to run against his rival.
Donald Trump again also you should take a look at his poll numbers,
they're not doing so well.
So the argument that he's best suited to beat Donald Trump is a little crazy.
So let's go to Derek Thompson.
He is a reporter over at the Atlantic, and
he shares some of those poll numbers on Twitter, something very interesting and
troubling happening with Biden's approval rating among young people,
which has collapsed by more than any other age group since January 2021.
So 18-34 year olds, he has lost 19 points among
them individuals with no college degree.
He's lost 20 points, Hispanics, he's lost 26 points.
And even with black voters, he's lost 30 points.
It turns out that things like voting rights, the child tax credit,
all of that stuff pretty important to people who happen to make up your base.
Yeah, so they're asleep at the wheel.
The democratic establishment only has one play,
which is to make sure that the most corporate candidate runs.
The one that is least interesting, the most boring and
the one that lies the most.
And so we'll run our standard play, we'll pretend we're gonna deliver for
you guys, then deliver for our donors instead and then get
the mainstream media to lie on our behalf and say that we did a great job.
Okay, well that play is not working anymore because so what what, and they're
mainstream media's flummoxed, they can't figure out why Biden is not doing well.
I wonder why he's not doing well with younger voters maybe because he said
that he would do student debt relief to to to $10,000, and he can unilaterally do it.
And it turns out it was a lie and he never did it.
And in fact, the press is not even following up on he said,
I'm gonna get a commission to study whether I can do it unilaterally.
That commission came in months ago and he's never revealed what they said.
You know why?
Because they probably said he can do it, he can do it unilaterally.
And he was lying all along, and he doesn't want to do it because his donors don't
want him to do it and make sure media thinks, well, played great job Joe Biden.
Okay, don't worry, we won't tell anyone that you're a liar, right?
Well, guess what?
You're not the only show in town anymore.
So now there are tons and tons of other media and
people found out, and they told black voters, let alone everybody.
Let's not just black voters, not just Democratic voters, but the whole country,
or we're gonna end that absurd gerrymandering,
we're gonna get voting rights, etcetera.
And then they're like, but a couple of corporate democrats disagreed.
So we screwed you over.
We're not gonna do any voting rights.
I wonder why he lost so many points with black voters, but
people that are in Washington, both the Democratic Party and national media,
they're so clueless that they genuinely don't understand.
They're like, I don't get it, we always screw over our voters.
Why are they, why are they bothered?
>> Let's talk about how clueless they are.
So I take you to this tweet from Zach Beauchamp.
I don't know how to pronounce his name, but here's what he says.
Biden's collapsed with young voters is kind of mysterious.
>> Mysterious, get another job to become a plumber or a dentist.
>> I've heard a lot of theories, but
I'm not sure any one of them is all that convincing.
>> Just so, so sad.
>> Okay, you don't, you don't have to look at too many theories.
Okay, I'll show you exactly what the problem is here.
So let's look at graphic nine.
Okay, this is a graph that shows Biden's dipping popularity.
Okay, the number of people who approve versus those who disapprove of
the job he's doing.
So as you can tell,
the blue line indicates the percentage of voters who approve of the job he's doing.
So looks like most people approved of the job he was doing when he passed
the American rescue plan, he signed it.
Okay, that was the Covid relief bill under his watch.
Then we get to covid related matters where Delta becomes the dominant variant and
people because of covid fatigue because of the fact
that Biden said we're going to combat it effectively.
And by fourth of July you'll have your barbecues and everything will be fine.
Obviously, he doesn't have complete control over variants and
things like that.
But he started dipping there, but where you start seeing the most pronounced
dip in his approval ratings is where the infrastructure bill is signed.
But clearly we don't have the social spending component to it.
And you don't have the permanent implementation of the child tax credit.
You don't have a win on the voting rights bill.
You go through this nonstop excuse factory of I couldn't do it
because of the parliamentarian.
I couldn't get you a $15 an hour minimum wage because of Joe Manchin,
Kirsten Cinema.
Excuse excuse excuse ordinary Americans don't care about excuses.
They want to see results.
So I used to tell students are going to cancel their student loan debt, and
then you lie and say we don't know if the federal government can do that.
We're gonna have a commission study it.
People aren't stupid.
They want to see positive results from the individual that they
spent time in resources campaigning for, supporting voting for.
And if they don't see that hard work pay dividends,
they're not gonna show up to the polls again.
And more importantly, when they're asked how they feel about Biden or
any given leader, they're not going to have favorable things to say they're not
gonna respond well to these polls.
>> I'm telling you it's all based on assumptions.
Your assumption is a normal person in America and a voter is, Well,
if the anybody says something, you assume that they're going to do it and
that they mean it, and if it turns out they didn't mean it, and
they didn't do it, you get kind of annoyed by that, right?
But for reporters in Washington, they think,
a politician is supposed to lie to you.
And of course they're never going to get anything done the minute they get into
office, they're gonna go, but the parliamentarian and my bum knee and
I had a headache the other day and and a mansion wouldn't let me do it.
And my God, where it's 50/ 50?
What was I supposed to do, be a leader?
No, I'm just gonna the next election.
I lie to you all over again.
And reporters think that that's the game.
And before, when there was only one media groupthink in mainstream media,
and they always told you corporate politicians are awesome, and
they never told you about their lives.
Well, that did work for a long time.
To be fair to them now though, they can't adjust their like why?
So why are people telling the truth that the democrats won't be popular?
Look, we can't stand republicans were worried to death that trump is gonna win,
and the fascists are gonna take over and end our democracy.
So we want the democrats to do the things that they promised the numbers
crater the minute that he says, I'm not doing any of it,
I'm not doing the voting rights, I'm not doing the student debt,
I'm not doing, build back better, I'm not doing any of it.
And there's nothing I could do.
The only one I passed was the corporate infrastructure bill.
Everybody in Washington gives him a standing ovation, and
the rest of the country hates him for it here.
I just solved the riddle for you.
>> All right, maybe you should collect that guy's paycheck, but for now,
why don't we take a break?
>> No, he's paid to be an idiot like, so he's getting his paycheck for
the right thing to be like.
So I mean democrats, of course they're not gonna deliver.
I mean, they're doing a great job,
they're doing a great job of doing goddamn nothing, right?
You're progressive.
So you're never gonna be satisfied with.
I mean, just because we gave you a nothing burger, you're not satisfied.
Yeah, yeah, we're not it's not just us.
Apparently the whole country's progressive because nobody is satisfied.