According to this week’s White House Report Card, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have disappeared from the scene – a strange turn of events after a successful Democratic convention.
Instead of hitting the campaign trail to gain momentum, Harris returned to Washington after the Chicago event ended. Harris snapped in response to a reporter who asked her about her plans for the weekend: “What’s next?” a reporter asked. “We’re going upstairs,” she giggled. She also has no plans to hit the campaign trail until Wednesday.
Challenger and former President Donald Trump, meanwhile, held a rally on Friday where he received the endorsement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent candidate who has suspended his campaign. Another rally is planned for Tuesday in Michigan.
Nevertheless, Democratic pollster John Zogby gave the week an “A” grade due to the positive course of the convention and Biden’s skillful handover of power to his deputy. Conservative Jed Babbin gave the week an “F” grade, saying the convention was a clown show that did not adequately address serious issues.
Johannes Zogby
Class: A
Democrats gathered in Chicago for their presidential nominating convention and gave President Joe Biden a rousing send-off worthy of a hero.
At the same time, they breathed a sigh of relief because the discussion about age and mental capacity on the Democratic side was not only ended, but was now also directed towards the strange behavior of former President Donald Trump in recent times.
Although Vice President Kamala Harris has promised to move things forward, she has not attempted in any way to escape her connection to the Biden administration. Anything else would have been disingenuous – Google “JD Vance” to find the definition. So the Biden legacy lives on, and that is an award in itself. Not many of us get to experience that in our lifetime.
Jed Babbin
Grade: F
It’s been another great week for Biden-Harris watchers. President Joe Biden told the Democratic National Convention that pro-Hamas protesters “have a point.” His administration was caught overstating the number of jobs by nearly a million, and it was revealed that his migrant spouse program added another half-million illegals to the number already living in the United States.
Biden’s comment to the protesters hid exactly what their “argument” was, and it was not one that Biden or Harris would admit. Their argument is that Israel should not exist and that the Jews living there should be killed or expelled.
The Biden team was caught overstating the number of new jobs by 818,000. The Biden economy has created so much inflation and market instability that there would certainly be fewer jobs than they previously claimed.
And Biden’s immigrant spouse program turned out to be another open-borders scam. It’s important to remember that Harris has not only failed as a “border czar,” but is also an open-borders radical.
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The Democrats’ 2024 platform said almost nothing about national security or foreign policy. But it did say the US spends too much on defense and not enough on diplomacy. Great idea. They want to starve defense and spend more on the State Department. And how many successes can the State Department show in the Biden era? None, by my count.
And the convention featured a free clinic sponsored by Planned Parenthood that performed free abortions and vasectomies. Democrats continue to claim that under Trump, Republicans will ban abortion nationwide, something they cannot do given the Supreme Court’s recent decision to return abortion power to the states.
Johannes Zogby is the founder of the Zogby Survey and a senior partner at John Zogby Strategies. His podcast with son and managing partner and pollster Jeremy Zogby can be heard here. Follow him on X @ZogbyStrategies.
Jed Babbin is a Washington Examiner Staff writer and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the administration of former President George HW Bush. Follow him on X @jedbabbin.
