Biden's Dismal State of the Union Pitched to a Shrinking Base

With his approval tanked on issues Americans care most about and dismal poll prospects in all vital swing states, President Biden’s State of Union address offered no uplifting message to unify a dispirited country his own policies have engendered.

Nor did he appear to try.

Rather than truly address the whole nation, he instead exclusively used the event to secure ongoing support from a far-left base that put him in office and orchestrated those failed agendas.

Unlike all other such addresses in memory, there were no appeals for national unity, whereas GOP opposition was divisively represented as a threat to democracy at home in back-to-back correlation with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Obviously referring to Donald Trump, he began his speech stating: “Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault here at home as they are today.”

Pressing that claim, he later reiterated that “January 6th and the lies about the 2020 election, and the plots to steal the election, posed the gravest threat to our democracy since the Civil War.”

Whereas never mentioning Donald Trump by name, Biden disparaged his “predecessor” 13 times, with no kind words whatsoever for the former president’s successful policies.

Whereas Trump programs produced the vaccines, Biden took full credit for leading the country and world through the COVID pandemic and restoring the economy and jobs following his forced business shutdowns.

Biden also publicly accused and demeaned the Supreme Court in asserting that their decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and return abortion legislation authority to individual states was partisan and political.

Meanwhile, the president openly continues to defy a SCOTUS ruling that he lacks constitutional authority to rescind more than $400 billion in federal student loan obligations, one of the most expensive executive actions in U.S. history.

Superficially referencing packages of Snickers candy bars, he blamed producers for “shrinkflation,” rather than his “Bidenomics” that has produced $12 fast food hamburgers and a war on fossil energy that has doubled gas pump prices.

Desperate times apparently call for ever more desperate Democrat measures.

A January Bloomberg News-Morning Consult poll shows former President Trump leading in seven key 2014 battleground states — North Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, Michigan, Arizona, and Pennsylvania — with an overall average of 48% support compared with 42% for Biden.

Trump held his strongest lead over Biden in North Carolina — 11 points — followed by Georgia — 7 points.

Other polls show that Biden is bleeding traditional Black and Latino voters.

A survey by Bloomberg indicates that Trump may win more Black votes than any previous Republican in history with between 14% and 30% of the share — far more than the 8% of the Black vote the Pew Research Center said he won in the 2020 presidential election.

A March New York Times and Siena College poll shows that Trump has edged out support from Hispanics with 46% favoring him over Biden’s 40%.

Overall, only 24% of likely voters believed our state of union is on the right track.

And with good reasons, including: an open southern border which has become controlled by drug and sex trafficking cartels as illegal crossers of unknown backgrounds receive free flights and debit cards; currency devaluation from reckless government spending and costly energy regulatory policies; and escalating crime resulting from overly lenient prosecutorial and punishment practices.

Many prospective voters, 73% of Democrats included, are reported to regard Joe to be “too old” to run for another term, a euphemism for obviously deteriorating cognitive and physical health.

Whereas the president and his spin machine claim he is fit as a fiddle and sharp for an 81-year-old, frequent fog brain moments and bizarre off-script mutterings strongly indicate otherwise.

According to the recently released report from Special Counsel Robert Hur regarding Biden’s illegal retention of classified documents, this would seem to represent a problematic campaign paradox.

On one hand, the investigation determined that former Vice President Biden won’t face charges for taking those restricted materials because he would be difficult to convict, seen as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."

On the other hand, Biden’s addled memory presumably doesn’t interfere with his ability to lead the free world.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump somehow continues to face federal charges for retaining documents he was authorized to keep under the Presidential Records Act.

More and more American’s are beginning to recognize great disparities between Democrat lawfare used to remove and bankrupt leading candidate Donald Trump as a presidential opponent versus free dual justice system passes awarded to Joe Biden and family.

According to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS, a 61% majority thought Joe had at least some involvement in Hunter’s Biden’s business dealings, with 42% saying they think he acted illegally, and 18% saying that his actions were unethical but not illegal.

A 55% majority also believed that President Biden has acted inappropriately regarding the investigation into Hunter Biden over potential crimes.

No doubt, Biden’s dismal State of the Union pitches to a shrinking base will set the verse and tone of talking points throughout the remaining election season.

Recognizing this, regard that growing Dem desperation as good reason for national optimism.