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In the fall, reporters commented that Biden’s numbers had entered Hillary Clinton territory in the polls.
While Hillary Clinton’s numbers were bad then during the election campaign, they’ve gone up to 43% with a 36% disapproval.
Biden could only dream of numbers like that.
His disapproval rating is 55% and approval rating is below 38%. So he’s turning to someone more popular than he is.
Biden and Clinton have not always been close — she elbowed him out of running in 2016 — but the president is thirsty for allies right now. His approval numbers are at an all-time low, and he is running neck and neck with a Republican front-runner, former President Donald Trump, who is under indictment in four separate cases.
Clinton is popular with women and key parts of the Democratic base and remains a fundraising draw who can help ensure Biden has the money to get his message out. There is still a two-for-the-price-of-one theme when it comes to her family: Husband Bill Clinton made a cameo at the fundraising event at their Washington home.
The White House recently hired Dennis Cheng, a longtime fundraiser for both Clintons, to bolster its outreach to political allies. The hire had more to do with Cheng’s ability to connect with party elites than his relationship with the Clintons, the two people familiar with Biden’s re-election campaign said, but it won’t hurt in sealing the bond between Biden and his onetime intraparty rival.
What do the Clintons get in exchange for this? Remember, the Clintons recently rebooted the Clinton Global Initiative in a high-profile way. But why would anyone put in the cash unless the Clintons suddenly have their magical government powers again?
And in 3-2-1.
The same day Hillary Clinton raised money for Biden, her husband sat down to lunch in New York with Argentina’s President-elect, Javier Milei and former Sen. Chris Dodd, who is Biden’s special adviser for the Americas. In doing so, Bill Clinton served as a high-profile surrogate for Biden, who did not meet with Milei. Dodd checked in with the White House before the lunch to go over discussion points, and Bill Clinton alerted the State Department that he would be meeting with Milei, said people familiar with the lunch.
Appointing Bill Clinton as a surrogate to a foreign leader means that the Clintons are back in the game and the Clinton Global Initiative has value again.
People close to Hillary Clinton anticipate she’ll be a tireless campaigner for the Biden campaign, rallying Democratic voters by laying out the stakes and explaining why a Trump victory could subvert America’s democratic norms.
Both she and Bill Clinton feel a degree of loyalty to the Democratic Party that not everyone in the party’s orbit shares, a person close to her said.
“She and her husband will do whatever is asked of them,” this person said. “Some elected [officials] and former elected [officials] are, ‘Send us a list and we’ll do two out of the 20’” events. “She’ll do 18 out of the 20.”
The Clintons just got back in the game and they’re already spreading rumors and innuendo and they’re already hooking up with foreign leaders.
This is bad, sure. But it’s still less bad than 2020 when Biden outsourced his future administration to Elizabeth Warren. It does mean that if Biden gets back into office, the Clintons will own a sizable part of his administration and what’s left of his soul.
NAVY ET1 says
Hillary Clinton was “all in” with her support for Sheila Jackson Lee in Houston, and we see how little that mattered to the outcome. For one to ignore Hillary or the Clinton mafia would be doing so at their own peril, but her political “machinery” is quite rusty and doesn’t pack the punch that rabid young leftists demand, as half of Z’ers have written her off and the other half doesn’t know who she is.
It would probably be to her own best interests if she just went back to walking in the woods in Chappaqua and take her cankles with her, but don’t let her come up behind you. Just ask Seth.
SPURWING PLOVER says
Bidens polls are crashing in flames he has become the most unpopular President in American History and he makes is worst for himself each day acting like a Dictator
RS says
Even Hillary can’t save Joe from the wide open eyes of the American people. People know when policies are destructive and never getting corrected and how their lives are affected.
Justin Swingle says
A Shameful Ruling Class that Shamelessly Shames Good Americans
By J.B. Shurk
Good Americans do not behave like Bill and Hillary Clinton. After Bill was caught having sexual relations with a White House intern barely old enough to legally drink, he was not burdened by shame. When multiple women accused him of sexual harassment or rape, he did not resign. His wife Hillary is so free of shame that she quickly slimed Bill’s accusers as “trailer-park trash,” excused her husband’s atrocious behavior as part of some “vast right-wing conspiracy,” and ran for office, herself. Only shameless people blame others for their own depravities and double-down with new offenses — including taking Chinese Communist Party bribes, renting out the Lincoln Bedroom to campaign donors, committing perjury and fraud, and stealing expensive pieces of White House furniture on their way out the door.
B Smith says
“what’s left of his soul”
Wow, that’s a bad deal for the Clinton’s because there isn’t much left.
jbspry says
I have a sneaking suspicion…
If you believe, as I do, that the invisible hand of Barack Obama has been running the country since January 2021, then you have to allow that something like this could not happen without his knowledge and consent.
But why would such a shrewd politico make such a dumb mistake?
The way I see it, Obama knows that Filthy Joe is used up and that Trump will win in 2024. It is useless for the Democrats to try to hold the White House.
But consider: who would you name as the two members of the Obama administration proper that he despised most intently?
Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, of course.
Obama had to give Clinton the SecState position as a bribe to get her to fall on her swords for him in 2008. She wasn’t swayed by the splendor of his blackness; SHE wanted the White House.
He never forgave her for that.
And Filthy Joe?
Obama calculated that he needed a garrulous honky idiot for his running mate, to bring in the racist vote and grease the skids for his “Historic First Black President” candidacy. Can you imagine a smooth cosmopolitan Harry Belafonte clone like Obama having any authentic respect for a ward-heeling shit-fighter like Joe Biden?
Obama hates Hillary and despises Biden.
So…
if the White House is lost in any case, why not take some pleasure in destroying the last vestiges of dignity and respect held by the two people in the world he detests most profoundly?
FJB
FHC
FBHO
Noel Skwiot says
This is a precursor to hillary sharing the ticket, as kamala gets the boot.
Onzeur Trante says
LOL. The only thing that Hillary can do to help Biden is to cook up another epic hoax a la Christopher Steele with whipped cream this time.
Jeff Bargholz says
Look at that repulsive photo. Pervy Joe is doing all he can to grind up against Hellery but she’s avoiding his weak ass pelvis like the plague.
TomSJr says
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