Biden team blaming media for poor approval number

The electorate has soured on the economic and foreign policy priorities of this Administration and Democrats as a whole.

“In order to cure the problem, you have to…diagnose it first, and you have to treat the symptoms with the tools that you have,” said Michael Tyler, the campaign’s communications director. “We are diagnosing it through our communications efforts—calling it out—and then we are treating it both through communications, through digital, through our organizing apparatuses.” The strategy, said principal deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks, hasn’t so much changed as ramped up with Trump’s return to the campaign trail. “When your opponent sort of sticks their neck out and gives you an opportunity, you have to react to it,” he said. “He has ramped up in his rhetoric,” but it is “not being covered in the way that we feel like it should.”

“You definitely hear from White House and Biden reporters, ‘Ugh, they’re just going to be so awful,’ or, ‘They’re going to make this so painful,’” said one reporter who covers Biden. “I think their escalation of this does sometimes work in terms of getting coverage they want. I don’t know if it’s going to work in terms of their larger goal of stopping Trump.”

The reporter added, “Trump often called us the enemy of the people, but Biden’s team at times treats us like it, in the way they shield and hide and have contempt for anything critical.”

The underlying problem for Biden and his team is a complete lack of understanding what matter to voters, and a complete lack of understanding why people are generally upset. The concerns the voters have are concerns not because of the media, but in spite of the media. The Biden team expects interference to be run for them, and if that interference is not successful they blame the media for not pushing hard enough when in fact they are lucky that the media is on their side. Lord knows where Bidens approvals would be with an honest objective media.

In theory the media should be focusing on what the people are focusing on. If the media does focus on what people are focusing on, then they should be talking about inflation, a loss of real wages and discretionary spending. They should be talking about rising crime, homelessness, and the disaster at the border. They might also talk about two wars, problems with North Korea and China, and a growing degree of antisemitism from the left. They should be focusing on the lack of public interest in green technology and the fact that most of that technology is failing miserably. The real problem for Biden is that these things are not being ignored (as team Biden would like). They are being discussed because they are impossible to ignore. To the degree that those in the media might just choose to push their own agenda, there are almost no media decisions to go pro-Trump and anti-Biden. Certainly not from the New York Times.

But yet, you hear this a lot from the left about an unfair media. They discuss the broad idea that Biden should be getting more credit for "legislative achievements" but these achievements seem limited when you ask for specifics. The joke of taking credit for crashing the economy and then having it come back to somewhere close to where it was is prior to the crash is simply not working. Why should it? Moreover, many of the tangible Biden policies such as being pro-green/anti-fossil fuels sending billions and billions to Ukraine, pushing for censorship, and trying to play both sides of the Israel Hamas conflict are extremely unpopular and nobody can cover for that.

The problem here for Biden is that he is not Obama and the press does not slobber over him as they did Obama. They certainly favor him over Trump and continue to work as surrogates. But they have limits and those limits seem to be met much faster for Biden than they were for Obama. They are much quicker to be more realistic, whereas they were willing to push whatever Obama spin was given to them. This is likely what the Biden team sees and deems it to be unfair.

The second issue they have is Trump. Their insistence now is that the media is simply is not being hard enough on Trump (ahem). They want their own rhetoric and hatred of the bad orange man to be more glaringly focused on by a media who should understand the clear and present danger of being objective about anything Trump related. Stop him at all costs, even if those costs are dishonesty.

One would think (or at least the left would think) that nearly 100 criminal counts being waged against him by partisan liberal prosecutors should be taking it's toll. But clearly the public has deep seeded beliefs about this that are not going to change regardless of the media. Either he should be sent to prison (guilty or not) or this is the biggest fraudulent coordinated prosecutorial witch hunt hack job ever waged. I am not sure there is really much in between, and I would guess that the results of these trials (if we get to that point) will motivate the opposite of how many believe. If he is found not-guilty that will motivate the hate-driven bad orange man crazies, and if he is found guilty that will simply motivate his supporters. But I don't believe media coverage will change that one way or the other.

At the end of the day, Biden is playing the refs. Trying to get inside their heads and make them feel like they will be responsible if the bad orange man becomes President again. Not sure with how bad so many things are right now that the media can even make a difference.