In private, Biden shifts from frustration to confidence that he'll beat Trump
In private, Biden shifts from frustration to confidence that he'll beat Trump
The president's mood has been buoyed by recent polling and his visits to battleground states, as Trump sits in a Manhattan courtroom for his criminal trial.
Confidence here probably isn't a great thing
As long as it isn't tied to complacency, it's fine.
Yup. I was pretty darn confident on November 7th 2016 too.
If we can just get through this election then we can start worrying about the next election.
If Biden wins, we'll never have to worry about either trump or Biden running again.
And if Trump wins, we'll never have to worry about anyone ever running again.
But that'll be the least of our problemsYeah, 2028 will see a new fascist running against an even more rightward corporate neoliberal.
Trump running for POTUS 2028....
@mipadaitu
Trump will never stop running again. Whether he wins or not
Does anybody know which election wasn't "the most important election in history"?
The next election being local and State, not just President. I want us to carry the momentum and really start upping the pressure and pushing the candidates we need. Together.
That’s what they said last time.
Time to vote local in 2025!
Probably because nationally the Democrats have been beating polls by 9+ points since Roe V. Wade was overturned.
Nationally doesn't mean shit if they can't get 270 electoral votes.
Well, he's won more elections than I have, but IDK
I'm feeling better than I was at the start of the year, but it's certainly still no sure thing. A little confidence is a good thing, as long as it doesn't rot into complacency.
I have a feeling that since he's now on the campaign trail, he's rubbing elbows with more voters, doing the kissing babies and shaking hands kind of stuff. Getting out there more is helping him feel more in touch with more of the American people, instead of being more isolated and busy with presidential work.
Hillary was super confident...
It's why she lost the 2016 election, she had all the confidence in the world, but that alone doesn't make someone a good candidate
Someone that acts confident when they shouldn't, is colloquially known as a "conman". Because what they're selling isn't worth buying, you're just buying it off their confidence in themselves, which is very rarely based on reality.
Biden has beat Trump once already, Hilary never did. Maybe he's confident for a reason.
"He shouldn't be confident because a different candidate was confident once and they lost, that means confidence is bad and meaningless"
I'm sure trump is confident too, how does that make you feel? Should he be?
I'm sure he's pretty confident he's in some REAL DEEP SHIT. 91 felonies, killed off a shit ton of base from his incredible job at handling covid, actively talks about being a dictator and killing his political rivals. Even his mouth breathing cult has to have their dim bulbs flickering and them thinking, "this isn't American".
He's only running for office because he's absolutely fucked if he doesn't win. He owes half a billion in loans to russia, another half a bill for fraud. He's toast unless he can change the laws that are going to take him out.
Someone that acts confident when they shouldn’t, is colloquially known as a “conman”.
No, that's incorrect.
A "con man" aka Confidence Trickster is a grifter who gains your confidence in order to scam you.
Having false confidence in itself does not mean someone is necessarily a swindler. It could just be that they are delusional or misinformed.
They're not selling a legitimate product service, the only thing rubes are being sold on, is the confidence of the salesperson.
Biden can be as confident as he wants to be, and some voters may assume that confidence means he's competent.
But Hillary was extremely confident she'd win 2016. She shouldn't have been.
And that over confidence directly led to her not trying as hard as she could, and voters falsely believing she had it wrapped up and they didn't need to "hold their nose".
Biden and voters need to be realistic about his chances to beat trump, or it will lower his chances to beat trump.
Ah yes, there's the Democratic party's bullshit hubris i've come to know and loath.
Hillary lost Michigan, a key states due to our absolutely bullshit electoral college, by 10k votes while there were 100k votes that voted uncommitted in the recent primary.
Awfully stupid in my opinion to think you have things in the bag when you damn well know your voters aren't cultural deologues like Republicans.
Huh. Usually when Biden totally does something in private, it's something that centrists want progressives to think he supports.
Seeing murmurs of bird flu now....just imagine an outbreak of something like bird flu under the "leadership" of dimbulb donnie, JFC.
Considering the kill rate of it, it'll probably wipe out most of the magats.
How is it "in private" if youre re-posting that info here?
It means its info that the public needs to be served with.This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON — Over the past several weeks, President Joe Biden has privately expressed confidence that he’s going to win the November election, according to three people familiar with his comments, in a shift from the frustration with the status of his campaign that he was venting to aides just a couple months ago.
The turnabout in Biden’s mood has been propelled in part by recent polling that shows him gaining ground against former President Donald Trump, these people said.
Indeed, complaints about Americans not giving him credit he believes he deserves for what he sees as his accomplishments, including an economy trending in a positive direction and bipartisan infrastructure legislation, have been a recurrence for much of Biden’s time in the White House.
Additionally, opposition to Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which Biden has supported, continues to grow across the country, and months of efforts to reach a cease-fire deal have so far failed.
Protests against the war have escalated on college campuses, with students building encampments and facing off with law enforcement, at a time when Biden is struggling with young voters.
In addition to an average of two presidential visits to battleground states a week, part of the current phase of that plan has included spending money to beef up the Biden campaign.
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