Milwaukee Democratic Mayor Cavalier Johnson defended his city, which is set to host the Republican National Convention this summer, after former President Donald Trump called the city “horrible” in a closed-door meeting with House Republicans earlier Thursday.
“This is a great place, and the former president and every Republican who’ll have the chance to come to our great city, they’ll see that when they’re here on the ground in Milwaukee for the convention,” Johnson told CNN’s Laura Coates Thursday night.
Johnson added that insulting the home of tens of thousands of Republican voters in Wisconsin, a swing state, could be politically costly for the former president as he seeks to return to the White House.
A member of the House Freedom Caucus is taking an unprecedented step to endorse the primary challenger fighting to unseat the ultra conservative group’s chair.
Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) is endorsing John McGuire, a state senator who is in a highly watched race against Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), McGuire’s campaign first shared with POLITICO.
“I love this country with a soldier’s passion. I’ve served in Congress since 2016, and we need reinforcements to help Make America Great Again. I’m happy to join President Trump by supporting and endorsing John McGuire for Congress,” Davidson said in a statement, describing McGuire as conservative, effective and someone who will drain the swamp.
He added: “I look forward to serving with him in the 119th Congress to support President Trump and the America First agenda. Drain the swamp!”
NEW ROCHELLE, New York — The New York Democrat running to unseat Rep. Jamaal Bowman has an unusual double advantage against the incumbent: local political clout and the backing of a national pro-Israel group.
And it’s Westchester County Executive George Latimer’s ties at home — even more so than his position on the war in Gaza — that could deny the Squad member a third term.
Latimer has picked up endorsements from fellow local leaders week after week — including the mayor and three City Council members in Yonkers, where Bowman lives. And while just 10 percent of Bowman’s campaign contributions come from his neighbors, more than half of Latimer’s donations come from within the district.
Latimer may not have any national name recognition compared to Bowman — who has built his reputation in Congress as a left-wing agitator for sweeping change nationwide — but he enjoys a different kind of celebrity. He’s the Cher of Westchester County, known as just “George” to many in the suburban enclave north of New York City thanks to his 35 years in state and local government.
Donald Trump has hit back at billionaire Illinois governor JB Pritzker, who branded him a ‘felon’ in an interview earlier this week as the pair’s war of words escalates
Donald Trump has unleashed a scathing attack on governor JB Pritzker on Sunday, calling him “rotund,” “sloppy” and “pathetic” after the Illinois governor labeled the ex-president a “felon” earlier in the week.
The billionaire Democrat, who holds the title of America’s wealthiest elected official, makes no effort to conceal his contempt for the 77-year-old presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Nineteen minutes after Trump’s conviction on all 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money trial last month, Pritzker denounced the former president as a racist, homophobe, and a con artist.
Pritzker, 59, is a loyal supporter of president Joe Biden and is driven to “fight to keep him in the White House,” thereby keeping Trump at bay, he wrote on X on Friday.
JB Pritzker called Trump a ‘felon’ on Wednesday(Joel Angel Juarez/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock)
“I can’t mince words when it comes to talking about who Donald Trump is,” Pritzker told The New York Times on Wednesday. “It’s important, I think, for people to really refocus on the idea that: Do they really want a president who is a felon who faces jail time?”
Trump didn’t waste any time hitting back as their feud escalated, taking several low blows at Pritzker’s physical appearance, business achievements, and political acumen, reports the Mirror.
“Sloppy J.B. Pritzker, the Rotund Governor from the once great State of Illinois, who makes Chris Christie look like a male model,” Trump wrote, while also throwing shade at the Republican ex-governor of New Jersey in a fiery Truth Social tirade on Sunday.
Despite Pritzker’s estimated $3.5 billion fortune, as reported by Forbes, the former president alleged that his family “wanted him out of the business” – the global hotel chain, Hyatt – before he doubled down on his “pathetic” business acumen.
After Trump’s initial barrage of insults about his business ventures, he proceeded to criticize the senior Democrat’s politics. The incumbent has been a longtime financial supporter of the Democratic Party and has served since 2019 as the 43rd governor of Illinois.
JB Pritzker was the latest Democrat in Donald Trump’s crosshairs(AFP via Getty Images)
However, the ex-president accused Pritzker of presiding “over the destruction and disintegration of Illinois at levels never seen before in any State,” he claimed.
Trump concluded: “Crime is rampant and people are, sadly, fleeing Illinois. Unless a change is made at the Governor’s level, Illinois can never be Great Again!”
Pritzker has long been critical of Trump’s inflammatory language and staunch conservative stance on women’s rights.
“It’s President Biden who is fighting to restore reproductive rights or Trump who bragged about overturning Roe v. Wade,” Pritzker stated last month at The Democratic National Convention.
Flashback to November and he also accused Trump of using descriptions mirroring those of Nazis in the 1930s.
“The rhetoric that’s being used by Trump, by some of the Maga extremists, is rhetoric that was used in the 1930s in Germany [and] I am very concerned about the direction of the country if we see policies like what Donald Trump is espousing come to light,” he expressed on MSNBC’s Inside with Jen Psaki.
“And I’m deeply concerned about his predilection for revenge and what that will mean for groups of people that didn’t support him in the 2024 election if he gets elected.”
The best antidote to the left’s caricatures of him as a fascist and a buffoon are calm, coherent and factual responses. Bottom line: He needs to act and sound more like a president than a challenger,” New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin advised.
In recent years, Elon Musk appears to have gone from lightly flirting with politics to having a full-blown love affair with growing his influence in Washington.
As the presidential election inches closer and the billionaire businessman continues teasing the idea of a Trump endorsement, it’s becoming clear that Musk has a lot at stake depending on who next leads the country.
While Musk hasn’t publicly endorsed any candidate, Business Insider previously reported he bonded with fellow billionaires over a shared distrust of Democrats and privately discussed how best to defeat them in this year’s election.
According to a recent report from The Wall Street Journal, Musk has also talked with the Trump campaign about taking on a potential advisory role if the former president returns to the White House.
“Age is just a number, the adage goes. For Donald Trump, that number just got bigger,” writes national political “reporter” Marianne LeVine, who adds that Trump’s age “has also drawn notice from some voters and experts on aging.”
Oh, experts you say? The Post and other media lapdogs love nothing more than laundering their opinions through self-styled “experts,” as we all saw with the Covid panic, Democrats’ republic-destroying lawfare, “cooling” inflation, forever wars, and more — including now apparently presidential fitness and “aging.” As for what the voters notices, let’s just say it diverges from the headline.
On Sunday, former President Trump targeted Illinois Democratic governor J.B. Pritzker, who has been considered a rising star in the Democratic Party but who has presided over the state while natives flee.
Pritzker was inaugurated as governor of the state in January 2019; between July 2021 and July 2022, over 142,000 people left Illinois. The only state that had a faster rate of population decline during that same time period was New York.
“Sloppy J.B. Pritzker, the Rotund Governor from the once great State of Illinois, who makes Chris Christie look like a male model, and whose family wanted him out of the business because he was so pathetic at helping them run it, has presided over the destruction and disintegration of Illinois at levels never seen before in any State. Crime is rampant and people are, sadly, fleeing Illinois. Unless a change is made at the Governor’s level, Illinois can never be Great Again,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Detroit — Former President Donald Trump warned of increases in illegal immigration, weakened global policy and a struggling economy under another Biden term as he courted both Black voters at a Detroit church and conservative stalwarts at a convention at Huntington Place.
The former president dinged the leader of United Auto Workers, Shawn Fain, as doing an “absolutely terrible job” and warned of environmentally-friendly emissions limits implemented under Biden.
“We can’t let these people destroy our country like this,” Trump said. “They’re going crazy.”
Christian approaches to political engagement often fall into one of two camps: ‘distinctive’ or ‘engaged’.
The ‘distinctives’ tend to be pessimistic about politics and say that the Church should stick to its priorities of evangelism and discipleship for eternity, rather than wasting energy in social action and politics in the present. But the Bible nowhere presents the Christian with such an either/or choice. Instead, it calls the Christian both to teach the gospel and love their neighbour.
The creation mandate of Genesis 1.26–28 to look after the earth still stands alongside Jesus’ great commission to his followers in Matthew 28.19 to make disciples of all nations. Paul commands the Galatian church to do good to all people, beginning with those in the Church. And when Paul summarises the purpose of the Bible in 2 Timothy 3.15–16, he writes that it is to make us wise for salvation in Christ Jesus and to equip the Christian for every good work. All this stewarding the earth, loving neighbour, doing good to all people cannot avoid involvement in politics.
LOS ANGELES – President Biden on Saturday night said he expects the winner of this year’s presidential election will likely have the chance to fill two vacancies on the Supreme Court – a decision he warned would be “one of the scariest parts” if his Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, is successful in his bid for a second term.
Biden made the remarks at a fundraiser that his campaign said raised a record $28 million. The event featured Hollywood stars like George Clooney and Julia Roberts, as well as former President Barack Obama.
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel moderated a conversation with Biden and Obama, and the two presidents talked about the impact that Trump had on issues like abortion rights by naming conservative justices to the Supreme Court.
That seems like a pretty big deal. On the other hand, much of the news coverage over the past few days has dismissed any thought of Garland being sent to jail or even prosecuted. So the net effect of his contempt citation might well be zero.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has announced plans to combat “conspiracy theories” surrounding the allegations the Justice Department is illegally working in collusion with the Democrat Party to overthrow the American republic. Garland used the DNC-CCP’s content marketing platform to pen an “opinion” piece that sets the DNC-CCP narrative on how to create a culture of fear to prevent whistleblowers and dissenters from publicly challenging the official party narrative.
The nature of Garland’s op-end is revealed in this statement by Garland: “The conspiracy theory that the recent jury verdict in New York state court was somehow controlled by the Department is not only false, it is irresponsible.” Calling a rightful opinion of a kangaroo court trial “irresponsible” is the first step towards criminalizing that same thought, as his critiques rightly point out.
Some might see US Attorney General Merrick Garland getting quite involved in campaigning ahead of the November election – albeit indirectly so, as a public servant whose primary concern is supposedly how to keep Department of Justice (DoJ) staff “safe.”
And, in the process, he brings up “conspiracy theorists” branding them as undermining the judicial process in the US – because they dare question the validity of a particular judicial process that aimed at former President Trump.
In an opinion piece published by the Washington Post, Garland used one instance that saw a man convicted for threatening a local FBI office to draw blanket and dramatic conclusions that DoJ staff have never operated in a more dangerous environment, where “threats of violence have become routine.”
It all circles back to the election, and Garland makes little effort to present himself as neutral. Other than “conspiracy theories,” his definition of a threat are calls to defund the department that was responsible for going after the former president.
It’s not yet November, so elections may not be the first thing on your mind—yet they happened Tuesday evening in a number of primaries and in a special contest in Ohio to replace GOP Rep. Bill Johnson, who retired to become president of Youngstown State University.
Republican Michael Rulli, an Ohio state senator and small business owner who touts himself as a “big natural gas guy,” won that contest, easily defeating Dem Michael Kripchak 55-45 to slightly increase the House GOP majority by one—at least until November, when another election will take place. It looks like Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) just found a little more breathing room:
Congratulations to our newest Republican U.S. House Representative from Ohio’s 6th district, Michael Rulli!
We look forward to Congressman-Elect Rulli providing needed backup for House conservatives fighting for our nation. pic.twitter.com/kXYvgKicbm
— Ohio College Republican Federation (@OhioCRs) June 12, 2024
Lawmakers from both parties have voiced worries about the nation’s preparedness for foreign disinformation during the presidential election and the impact it has on democracy.
Four high-ranking members of the Democrat party were arrested and charged with voter fraud connected to a 2019 Bridgeport, CT Mayoral race. The four Democrats charged are Bridgeport City Councilman Alfredo Castillo and Wanda Geter-Pataky, Vice Chair of the Bridgeport Democratic Party, along with two campaign workers, Nilsa Heredia and Josephine Edmonds. Connecticut state prosecutors also charged Wanda Geter-Pataky with witness tampering.
The four accused were allegedly exploiting the lack of chain of custody in the vote tallying system used to count mail-in ballots. In this case, they were absentee ballots, and the incident happened a year before the 2020 Presidential election that saw more than 60 percent of votes counted allegedly coming from mail-in-ballots. The arrests provide yet more proof that voter fraud is widespread in our system and it needs serious reform (like voter ID and first-day-only voting) to restore voter confidence in the integrity of the system.
This week, four Democratic leaders in Bridgeport, Connecticut, were arrested and accused of committing election fraud.
The voter fraud was tied to a 2019 mayoral primary race.
Bridgeport City Councilman Alfredo Castillo and Wanda Geter-Pataky, Vice Chair of the Bridgeport Democratic Party, face charges of election tampering.
Nilsa Heredia and Josephine Edmonds, two campaign workers, have been accused of election fraud and unlawfully possessing someone else’s absentee ballot.
During a virtual town hall event last week, Paula Collins, who is challenging Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., suggested that supporters of former President Trump be sent to “re-education camps,” according to audio obtained by the Post Millenial.
Collins, a marijuana tax attorney, argued that even if a majority of Democrats are elected to Congress in November, there will still be a need for re-education camps to “put[] it all back together again” after “this MAGA nightmare.”
The uncontested Democrat nominee for NY-21 said, “Even if we were to have a resounding blue wave come through, as many of us would like, putting it all back together again after we’ve gone through this MAGA nightmare and re-educating, basically — that sounds like a, rather, a re-education camp.” She told voters on the call they will need to find “another way to phrase” the concept of “re-education camps” with the general public.
New York Democrat Paula Collins suggests Trump supporters need a “reeducation camp” after the election.
Collins is running for Congress and made the comments in a town hall meeting. pic.twitter.com/6VGNmtlcY7
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 6, 2024
If you read nothing but posts from conservative influencers on X, you’d be convinced that Donald Trump has already won the 2024 election.
The source of this sensationalized optimism comes from public polling data, which shows the former president with leads in key battleground states he needs to win this November. Some surveys also seemingly indicate that traditionally “blue states” like Virginia and Minnesota are in play.
With numbers like these and Biden’s approval rating sinking faster than Rachel Levine in a swimming pool, there’s no way Trump can lose, or so the conventional thinking goes.
While it’s certainly possible the polls are accurate, the outcome of recent elections should give conservatives reason to pump the brakes on celebrating before any ballots have been cast. Case in point: A special election held in Ohio’s 6th Congressional District on Tuesday.
The matchup between Democrat Michael Kripchak and Republican Michael Rulli wasn’t expected to be a close race. According to the Associated Press, former GOP Rep. Bill Johnson — who represented the district until his resignation earlier this year — “won his last four elections by more than 30 percentage points.” Trump similarly won the district by roughly 30 points during the 2020 contest.
While Rulli defeated Kripchak in Tuesday’s matchup and expanded Republicans’ thin House majority, the election was much closer than originally predicted. Preliminary results indicate Rulli won the race by 9.4 points — a more than 20-point shift in Democrats favor.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is set to hold a Get Out the Vote rally on June 22 in the Bronx, just three days before the New York Primary Election on June 25. The event will feature Vermont senator Bernie Sanders and New York Representative Jamaal Bowman, among others.
In a post on X, Ocasio-Cortez emphasized the importance of voter turnout in the upcoming primary. “We have a world to win. To do so, we must defeat cynicism, apathy, and big money to turn out every voter we can in the New York primary THIS MONTH,” she wrote.
Drew Johnson has won the Republican primary in the battleground 3rd Congressional District and will face incumbent Democrat Susie Lee in what is expected to be a tough general election fight.
The Associated Press called the race for Johnson early Wednesday morning. The outcome is an upset victory for the candidate, who faced stiff competition in a crowded field of Republican rivals, including former Nevada state Treasurer Dan Schwartz and former Nevada state Sen. Elizabeth Helgelien.
“I’m honored to earn the trust and support of Republican primary voters in Nevada’s crucial 3rd Congressional District. The pundits didn’t give us a chance, but we outworked our opponents and overperformed expectations,” Johnson said in a statement.
Most Americans do not approve of Joe Biden’s student loan bailouts, according to new polling.
It’s hardly a surprise. Biden’s plan favors the wealthy and is nothing more than a vote-buying scam meant to appeal to young voters, who he needs and who are abandoning him at a rapid pace.
It’s also important to remember that the U.S. Supreme Court told Biden that he could not do this and he did it anyway and then bragged about defying the nation’s highest court. People see this.
Only 3 in 10 adults approve of President Joe Biden‘s student loan debt forgiveness, according to a recently released poll from the University of Chicago and the Associated Press.
Four of 10 say they disapprove. Combine that with the rest of those respondents saying they are either neutral or don’t know enough to say, and it is clear this move by Biden has failed.
The national average of polls reveals the Mass Mailer President Joe Biden Committee’s avatar, Joe Biden, has seen his approval rating hit an all-time low of 37.4 percent. FiveThirtyEight has been compiling the average approval rating of polls since Biden took office.
Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight’s founder, said of the results, “But Biden just hit a new all-time low in approval (37.4%) at 538 yesterday. Dropping out would be a big risk. But there’s some threshold below which continuing to run is a bigger risk. Are we there yet? I don’t know. But it’s more than fair to ask.”
Prominent FiveThirtyEight pollster Nate Silver posed a foreboding question for Democrats on Monday.
The question came on the heels of a devastating revelation for President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign.
The president just reached a new all-time low in approval. According to FiveThirtyEight’s average of national polls, Biden’s approval rating stands at a mere 37.6 percent.
This prompted Silver’s foreboding question.
But Biden just hit a new all-time low in approval (37.4%) at 538 yesterday. Dropping out would be a big risk. But there’s some threshold below which continuing to run is a bigger risk. Are we there yet? I don’t know. But it’s more than fair to ask. pic.twitter.com/1nmoKQkW85
“… Biden just hit a new all-time low in approval (37.4%) at 538 yesterday. Dropping out would be a big risk. But there’s some threshold below which continuing to run is a bigger risk. Are we there yet?” Silver wrote.
“I don’t know. But it’s more than fair to ask.”
Silver also pointed out that if projections hold, former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, will top the incumbent Democrat by seven points.
Will Biden be the Democratic nominee in November?
Yes: 52% (53 Votes)
No: 48% (49 Votes)
Trump’s current approval rating stands at 41.6 percent according to FiveThirtyEight.
According to a May 30 report from NPR, one of the biggest advantages Biden had in the 2020 election — young voters — appears to be slipping away.
According to 2020 exit polls cited by the outlet, Biden won voters age 18-29 by over 20 points and voters under 45 by 14 points.
Both once-wide leads have been nearly decimated as of May.
Biden’s 14-point lead with voters under 45 years old has been cut to just four points.
With Gen-Z and Millennials, Biden only leads by six points.
But that’s all before you introduce the independent and third-party candidates.
With independent candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West and Green Party candidate Jill Stein in the mix, Trump actually leads the Gen-Z/Millennial vote by six points and those under 45 by eight points.
Since this polling took place, the Libertarian party nominated its own candidate, Chase Oliver.
Oliver, a pro-LGBT candidate who went viral for previously defending drag queen story hour shortly after his nomination, plans to target “young voters angry about the Israel-Hamas war on college campuses, Twitch and TikTok,” according to Politico.
Should these strategies result in more young votes being pulled away from Democrats than Republicans, Trump’s lead among young voters could grow even wider come election day.
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A YouGov Presidential Election poll reveals 84 percent of Americans believe 4 more years of a Biden presidency will make their families worse off than if he weren’t re-elected. It could indicate for some, Democrats specifically, they might very want things to get worse for all of us in their effort to overthrow the republic and replace it with a one-party state.
Raheem scoured the latest poll and found this shocking nugget in the cross tabs: 84% of Americans believe they will be worse off under a second Joe Biden term.
That means EVEN DEMOCRATS know life will suck under a second Biden term!
Steve Bannon: Democrats are in trouble. You’re never going to see Tester or Sherrod Brown or these guys on a stage with Joe Biden because he is the cooler, brother. Your thoughts?
Raheem Kassam: Yeah, so it absolutely is showing up in the US numbers as well now. These numbers, by the way, are getting buried by the corporate media when they report these things out. At the National Pulse, we have an analysis up this morning about some of the most critical numbers in the YouGOve and CBS poll, a 2,000-person poll, with a 3.2% margin of error. In that, 84% of Americans, likely voters, have said that they expect to be worse off under a second Biden term. That is to say that they expect it financially, things to either get worse or stay on the same downward trajectory as they are currently. 84% of Americans! These are unprecedented, depressive numbers that are going towards the… And they are totally, totally an indictment of Joe Biden and his economic campaign.
Donald J Trump raised over $400 million for his re-election campaign after he was convicted of 34 felony counts in what appears to be a kangaroo court proceeding designed to produce a conviction, by any means necessary. Following that success, Trump has added $12 million in a weekend haul following a fundraiser in the heart of leftist power, Silicon Valley.
This week, during a one night event in Silicon Valley, hosted by entrepreneur David Sacks, Trump raised another $12 million – in just one night.
The fact that people in blue Silicon Valley are stepping up to support Trump, post-NYC verdict, shows that the political narrative has shifted. No one could have imagined Trump getting this kind of support in such a blue area four years ago.
Trump Raises $12M at Silicon Valley Fundraiser Hosted by Venture Capitalist David Sacks
Former President Donald Trump raised $12 million at a Silicon Valley fundraiser in deep blue state California on Thursday, according to a member of the California Republican National Committee.
Harmeet Dhillon posted on X: “$12M raised tonight! Incredible support for @realDonaldTrump. Not an empty seat in the gorgeous home of @DavidSacks and Jacqueline. Thrilled to see the tech leaders stepping up!”
It was the first fundraiser since Trump’s conviction last week, illustrating the former president’s ability to raise funds and garner support despite Democrats’ best efforts to label him a “convicted felon” and hurt his candidacy…
Last year, a radical abortion ballot initiative passed in the solid red state of Ohio, shocking pro-lifers across the country. The results weren’t even close: 56.78% of Ohio voters backed a ballot initiative to write “reproductive rights” into the state constitution, while only 43.22% opposed it.
How did it happen? The Left’s dark money network provides a key part of the explanation, and the Buckeye State just approved a law to prevent the kind of foreign funding that helped boost abortion across the finish line last year.
While the Left has long demonized “dark money,” the term merely refers to funds that influence American politics and policy without disclosing donors. Most nonprofits are forms of dark money influence, but a network of pass-through nonprofits on the Left further cloaks dark money, and the Left’s dark money network spent more than comparable groups on the Right in 2020.
According to the Ohio Secretary of State’s records, pro-abortion forces spent $53.8 million to back the initiative, while pro-life advocates spent $36.1 million to oppose it. A large chunk of the pro-abortion funding ($8.2 million) came from one left-wing dark money group, the Sixteen Thirty Fund.
Millions of Americans are struggling to afford necessities like food, rent, insurance, and a car payment. But if you’re one of them, don’t expect any understanding from the White House and its sycophants in the media. They say your financial pain is all in your head.
As an MSNBC host put it, Americans need “an economic explainer,” since “people are confused” about their financial situation. They’re actually “doing quite well,” she laughably asserted.
That will surprise the half of Americans who are struggling to make their rent or mortgage payments on time, especially the one-fifth of renters who are skipping meals to stay current, or the 65% of Americans who say their finances have deteriorated over the last year because of inflation.
Similarly, when President Joe Biden was told by an interviewer that food prices are up 30% in four years, he blithely dismissed it. American families, he claimed, “have more money to spend.”
WASHINGTON, June 4 (Xinhua) — “It’s my honor,” said former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday in the first video post of his account on TikTok, a social media platform he tried to ban as president on national security grounds, amassing 4.6 million followers.
The post, which showed Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, waving to the audience at an Ultimate Fighting Championship game in the U.S. state of New Jersey, has garnered around 73 million views and received over 4.7 million likes.
Trump has not been a fan of TikTok. When he was the president, he issued an executive order in 2020 banning U.S. transactions with TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance, citing national security concerns. The order was blocked by a federal judge.
A YouGov Presidential Election poll reveals 84 percent of Americans believe 4 more years of a Biden presidency will make their families worse off than if he weren’t re-elected. It could indicate for some, Democrats specifically, they might very want things to get worse for all of us in their effort to overthrow the republic and replace it with a one-party state.