Republicans, though, saw their own political advantage in the move, casting it as an unfair giveaway to would-be Democratic voters.
“I think the American people are waking up to reality that things have changed so drastically" with Republicans, he told donors, adding, “Mark my words” that if Democrats lose the midterms, Republicans would move to “wiping out choice, across the board.”īiden’s Thursday event comes a day after the president moved to fulfill a long-delayed campaign pledge to forgive federal student loans for lower- and middle-income borrowers - a move that Democrats believe will animate younger and Black and Latino voters. “But we have more of a breeze than what felt like a gale hurricane in our face.”Īhead of the rally with an overflow crowd at Montgomery High School in Rockville, Biden was raising about $1 million at an event with about 100 donors for the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund in the backyard of a lavish Bethesda home. “It doesn’t mean that the wind’s at our back,” he added. 8 vote, even as the president remains unpopular.ĭemocrats, said Biden pollster John Anzalone, are “in a better position to compete because Joe Biden put us there.”
Wade and a productive summer on issues of core concern to Democrats have the party feeling like it is finally on the offensive heading into the Nov. But the intense voter reaction to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v.
Just months ago, as inflation soared, Biden’s poll numbers soured and his agenda stalled, Democrats braced for significant losses. And he will try to sharpen the contrast with Republicans, who once seemed poised for sizable victories in November.
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