The ship is sinking, and the Democratic Party seems hellbent on drilling more holes in the hull. At a time when President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is struggling in key battleground states with a burgeoning Uncommitted movement, the Florida Democratic Party’s leadership is doubling down on alienating its youth and progressive base and ignoring the winds of change. 

As 150 college student encampments have emerged coast-to-coast leading to over 2,300 arrests, the Democrats have decided to ignore youth and progressive voters, adopting Republican talking points on immigration and defense spending. A recent poll shows 67% of voters supporting a permanent ceasefire and a deescalation of violence. 

Additional polling data suggests that former U.S. President Donald Trump is building a considerable lead over incumbent President Joe Biden in several key battleground states ahead of the 2024 presidential election. One Emerson College poll shows Trump leading Biden by a staggering 15 percentage points in Michigan, while also holding a 5-point advantage in North Carolina. Marist College polling from March additionally indicated Trump leading on salient issues like immigration. In Florida, the latest survey from FAU's Political Communication and Public Opinion Research Lab found Trump commanding a robust 8-point lead, with 50% of registered voters favoring the former president compared to just 42% for Biden. 

While Trump’s margins have slightly tightened in Florida since last November, the state is still viewed as reliably leaning Republican, according to the analysis. As Professor Kevin Wagner notes, “Despite this very marginal improvement for Biden, it seems that Florida is going to be a safe state for Trump in this election cycle.” 

With the election still half a year away, these early polling snapshots highlight the uphill climb facing Biden as he aims to secure a second term against his formidable predecessor. 

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A pervasive sense of fear has settled in at the highest levels of the Democratic Party over President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects, even among officeholders and strategists who had previously expressed confidence about the coming battle with Donald Trump.

All year, Democrats had been on a joyless and exhausting grind through the 2024 election. But now, nearly five months from the election, anxiety has morphed into palpable trepidation, according to more than a dozen party leaders and operatives. And the gap between what Democrats will say on TV or in print, and what they’ll text their friends, has only grown as worries have surged about Biden’s prospects.

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The Biden campaign on Tuesday morning staged a press conference outside of the Manhattan courtroom where closing arguments were set to begin in the business records trial of former President Donald Trump.

Speaking at the press conference were actor Robert DeNiro, and two former Capitol police officers on January 6, Harry Dunn — who is running for Congress, and Michael Fanone.

De Niro unleashed full Trump Derangement Syndrome, claiming that if Trump were elected, he would “never” leave office.

“If he gets in, I can tell you right now, he will never leave! He will never leave! You know that. He will never leave,” DeNiro said, claiming that Trump would make himself “dictator for life.”

“What does that mean? Is that the country we want to live in? Do we want him running this country and saying, ‘I’m not leaving, I’m dictator for life’?” he added.

“I hope this new ad campaign reaches outside the bubble to remind supporters of what a danger he is to our lives. This is not a threat, this is a reality,” he continued.

De Niro also referred to Trump supporters as “clowns” and “gangsters.”

The move smacked of desperation. Trump and dozens of his supporters have essentially hosted daily press conferences outside of the courtroom over the past several weeks, giving them a high-profile platform.

“You all are here. You’ve been incessantly covering this day in and day out,” said Dunn, when asked by reporters why they staged the press conference outside of the courtroom. “And we want to remind the American people ahead of the first debate on June 27 of the unique, persistent threat and growing threat that Donald Trump poses to the American people and toward our democracy.”

Just last week, Trump hosted a campaign rally in the Bronx, reportedly drawing an estimated 25,000 supporters.

The move also smacked of politics. President Joe Biden has reportedly stayed quiet on the trial so as to not give credence to Trump’s accusations of political persecution. Politico reported just Friday that Biden would make a statement when there was a verdict, but from a White House “setting” and not a campaign one, so it would not look “political.”

However, that changed Tuesday morning when the Biden-Harris campaign announced they would hold a press conference outside of the courtroom.

Donald Trump Jr., the former president’s eldest son, posted on X:

In case you needed more evidence that all of these BS cases were quarterbacked by Team Biden to interfere in the 2024 election, the Biden campaign is now showing up in NYC to explicitly cheerlead the political prosecution of my father.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/05/28/biden-campaign-unleashes-trump-derangement-syndrome-patient-robert-deniro-outside-new-york-courthouse/

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