While ancillary issues like cancel culture and critical race theory further the divide between Democratic elites and American voters — and, indeed, electability — the top issue in 2022 has always been and will continue to be the economy. 

Pocketbook issues always matter most, especially now and regardless of the daily social media cycle. On that score, President Joe Biden has every reason to be concerned. Even Democrats can’t paint a rosy picture for 2022, hence the likes of NPR predicting a “red wave.”

In politics, the equation is simple: You start with a crisis — in this case, inflation. If enough people worry about the crisis, they will blame current leadership in Washington, D.C. And blame eventually becomes change. Read Full Story

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Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has been showing up — at conferences, on streaming services, on Twitter, and now in chatter over whether her party’s problems create an opening for another White House bid. But not everyone is convinced it’s her moment.

Clinton, despite a long-fostered relationship of mutual distrust with the media, has made numerous recent appearances, some stoking more attention than others.

Where Clinton garnered significant recent attention was the release of a clip of her reading the victory speech she had prepared to give on election night in 2016.

On the MasterClass streaming site, Clinton read aloud the victory speech she would have delivered had she defeated Republican nominee Donald Trump. Today previewed the excerpt, paired with an hourlong sit-down with NBC’s Willie Geist.

“There’s no appetite. None. Zero. I love her to death, but no,” a former swing state Democratic Party chair, and Clinton surrogate in 2008, said. “You’ve got to win. Unfortunately, that ship has sailed.”

Numerous former Clinton backers burst out laughing at the prospect of her return to the electoral fray.

“That is hilarious. I mean, I was a Hillary supporter. I continue to be. She’s doing fantastic things. But I think she understands that to move the party forward into something new, [there] needs to be new blood,” said one liberal 2020 campaign operative. Read Full Story

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Climate policies promoted and imposed by Team Biden will be lethal for people and planet.

They are based on junk science, headline-grabbing scare stories, and computer climate models that create far-fetched “scenarios” claiming fossil fuel use will cause Earth to warm by 4 degrees C (7 F) over the next 80 years, while a warming Arctic will bring colder winters.

Those dire predictions are used to justify more taxpayer-funded “research,” like a recent Columbia University “mortality cost of carbon” study that says 83 million people (the population of Germany) “could be killed” this century by those rising planetary temperatures. Read Full Story

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