Former VP Joe Biden is currently leading the field among those candidates seeking to oppose President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election. But is his alleged appeal to Rust Belt and/or working-class voters legit or just media gaslighting?
Globalist Biden was along for the ride while the Obama administration destroyed the Midwest economy. Everyone also seems to forget that as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, so-called nice guy Biden presided over the character assassination of many Republican federal court nominees.
SleepyCreepy Joe, as Trump calls him, wants to give healthcare benefits to illegal aliens. Multimillionaire “middle-class Joe,” as Biden describes himself, also might have colluded with Ukraine which ended up allegedly financially benefiting his family.
Plus, would his dismissal of China’s global economic ambitions, which even rival Bernie Sanders chided him for, have anything to do with his family’s lucrative financial ties to that country?
New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin seems to see through the Biden charade created by the same people who claimed Trump couldn’t win in 2016:
“Meanwhile, out on the 2020 campaign trail, Joe Biden surprisingly sits atop the party’s presidential heap. National polls show the former vice president scoring from 38 to 46 percent, with runner-up Bernie Sanders 20 to 30 points behind…Color me skeptical. Not of the polls, but of the prospect that Biden will finish on top. Although he is popular in some quarters, I believe his catapult to frontrunner status reveals that many Dems still suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Consumed with rage and determined to drive Trump from office one way or another, they are betting on Biden only because they accept the claim he can beat Trump in a head-to-head match-up.
“In theory, anything is possible. In reality, Biden was a disaster in his previous two bids for president and at 76 years old he’s not going to get better. Already he’s slurring words and 18 grueling months will kick the human gaffe machine into high gear.
“More critically, the idea that he can appeal to working-class voters who put Trump in the Oval Office is a media and consultants’ fantasy. Biden is a career Washington windbag and the Obama-Biden administration presided over high regulation, low growth and the loss of more than 200,000 manufacturing jobs. Obama insisted those jobs were gone forever. Under Trump, unemployment is at historic lows, wages are rising, regulations are being shredded and nearly 500,000 manufacturing jobs have been added.
“What does Biden say to all that? More important, what do those workers say?”
CNBC recalls that Biden supported the job-killing NAFTA, which Trump in the process of replacing, and TPP, which the POTUS rejected outright. Biden would obviously abandon any efforts put into place by the Trump administration to protect the American worker and American manufacturing.
“President Donald Trump won traditional manufacturing states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin in 2016 in part by pledging to crack down on what he called Chinese trade abuses. His administration has levied tariffs on Chinese goods and pushed for a new trade agreement with Beijing, which it could announce in the coming weeks,” CNBC added earlier this month.
Trump has imposed tariffs on Chinese goods, pending a deal between the two countries which would at long last level the trade playing field and eliminate unfair trading practices.
