By Ray Cardello for June 1, 2023, Season 19 / Post 47

Joe Biden officially announced his candidacy for reelection to President of the United States over 30 days ago. Since that early morning recorded announcement, Joe Biden has made no in-person campaign appearances. We are learning that this may be the campaign strategy from Joe for the 2024 election. Biden may be taking the nomination and eventual inauguration for granted. That decision may cost him the loss of another four years at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and send him to early retirement in Delaware. Joe Biden may be looking back on 2020 and thinking that hiding from the people and the media worked in 2020, but that may have been partly due to the Pandemic. Joe played it safe and let the anti-Trump sentiment and the FBI and Justice Department misinformation campaign sweep him into the White House. That will not work a second time.

The 2024 election is different, and the 2020 playbook will not get the job done. Biden has already committed to no debates with any Democrat challenges. This commitment is a slap down to Marianne Williamson and Robert Kennedy Jr, who are on the Primary Ballot and deserve the opportunity to contrast their views with the President on the debate stage. Our puppet President will keep as low a profile as possible to minimize gaffes. He also does not want to expose his mental and physical deficiencies that are far beyond most octogenarians. He is frail and slow and will have difficulty fooling the electorate if they see the authentic Joe Biden.

It gets old, but Biden has the media on his side. They will give him plenty of positive exposure, which will be all that much of the electorate will ever see. The mainstream media feeds today showed a bit of their game plan. They were comparing DeSantis and Trump to terrorists and even called DeSantis “Little Mussolini.” Can they get any more disrespectful? Probably, as there is no low to how far they will go to get Biden re-elected. The strength of this misinformation divide between msm and Fox News may be the determining factor in this race, and msm support is free to Biden. It is a huge advantage over whoever the eventual Republican candidate is.

The other element is the FBI and Justice Department’s impact on this race. The thought is difficult to swallow, but we saw in 2020 what these entities could do to influence the election. The existing leadership and many past leaders are firmly in the Biden camp. Clapper, McCabe, and even Comey can be seen regularly on CNN and MSNBC, and they are constantly bashing Republicans and calling Trump and DeSantis existential threats to Democracy. This is unprecedented for men who should be apolitical, but all openly support the Left, and it is effective with voters, especially those with only one source of their news.

We can overcome this Left Leaning Machine with a tremendous ground game, media spots, use of Social Media, especially Twitter, and a good showing in the debates. These steps are obvious, but we need to narrow down the rank of candidates and get behind whoever the survivor is. There can be no splintering or talk of a third-party play. Winning has to be the only option in 2024, and if that means taking off the gloves and getting into the weeds, so be it. Losing cannot be an option.

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