Jay Weber Show transcript 5-21-24
A regular and logical ‘measure’ of how any given elected official is doing-whether it’s president, or governor, or senator, or mayor...etc...
Is whether his or her own party members want to be seen with him or her come election time.
This is a basic: do other people want to be around me? As I run for re-election.
That’ll give you a pretty good idea of how this person is doing. How they are regarded. What their current political fortunes might be.
And right now- about four months from when the earliest voting starts and about six months away from election day-not a single democrat running for congress in a swing state wants to be seen with Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.
Even more telling most of them don’t even want to be associated with him.
Huh.
Why would that be? After all-these congressmen all voted in lockstep with the joe Biden/Nancy Pelosi/chuck Schumer agenda thru-out his entire presidency, here.
They are all still giving Biden and Schumer their vote- to this day. They are voting in favor of the most radical policies imaginable, when the votes are put in front of them:
Last week, in congress, nearly every single democrat voted to block a bill that would have put a clear ban on illegal aliens voting. In the senate- every democrat except Joe Manchin -voted for ‘no limits’ abortion-right up to the moment of birth.
So-these swing state democrats running for re-election are still ‘automatic votes’ for Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer and today’s radically left agenda.
So why are they pretending otherwise as they run for re-election?
The answer is obvious: because they are either radical leftists, themselves, or they are political cowards, or they are both. Like our own Tammy Baldwin.
She is one of these vulnerable democrats who are looking to distance themselves from Joe Biden and this ‘Bernie Sanders style’ agenda they and their party have been pushing-
But- see-
With tammy-it’s always a unique situation-because she doesn’t have a single reporter in Washington DC-or here in Wisconsin-chasing her down and holding her accountable for any of her votes.
Tammy Baldwin never needs to ‘explain herself’ or ‘defend her vote’...because she’s such a ‘back bencher’ afterthought in dc...and she’s become so good at hiding herself away from the media here at home.
And so- as i talk about these dems who are alarmed and fleeing Biden’s brand- please realize that Tammy Baldwin probably isn’t alarmed-because no one holds her accountable for anything.
We are also supposed to believe that-after watching millions of illegals flood over the southern border for three years-and saying nothing- John Tester is now a ‘border hawk’ and by God, wants our borders closed.
Tester adopted this ‘tough’ border attitude just a few weeks or months ago. He made sure at a recent televised hearing to tell Alejandro Mayorkas and defense sect Lloyd Austin that-quote- what’s going on at the border is not sustainable and it’s unacceptable’.
I don’t know about you-but that sounds to me like a line he and his staffers came up with- to make sure he said on camera at the hearing- so it can be used in campaign ads later.
By coincidence- John Tester- vulnerable democrat senator from Montana-was one of the few democrats to sponsor the Laiken Riley act that says illegals who commit crimes need to be detained and deported.
In Ohio- the vulnerable dem senator is Sherrod Brown- who suddenly found ‘his issue’ to break with Joe Biden on: these ridiculously large tariffs on Chinese EVs and green imports.
Joe Biden’s ratings are the worst that any president has had in 50 years...and the best these vulnerable democrats and their campaign managers can hope for is-
A)Biden gets ill or dies before election season...or
B)There are huge numbers of Americans who are willing to be ‘ticket splitters’ this fall.
Ticket-splitting used to be more of a ‘thing’ decades ago, when the two parties weren’t that far apart on most things-and one candidate might simply be more impressive than the other- in any given race.
If their positions aren’t that far apart, after all, i may as well vote for ‘that person’ because he seems more competent to me. Or he’s better looking, or whatever.
But as the country has gotten more and more ideologically divided-and as the parties have drifted further and further apart on ‘the issues’, less and less ticket-splitting has been occurring.
And everyone knows that’s the case.
But-these vulnerable democrats in the swing states who are currently leading in the polls when Joe Biden is not-
Are hoping that major ticket-splitting comes back in vogue this fall. They hope that if a big chunk of voters in their state decide to vote for Trump or a third-party candidate for president...that they then go right back to the democrat column and vote for them and the rest of the democrats-down ballot.
This is what Tammy Baldwin must hope for here. The presidential race is tied. Some polls say tied, some say trump is up one or two, others say Biden is up one or two. It’s a tied race.
So, Baldwin may need a bunch of ticket splitters to save her. In Wisconsin- that’s not impossible.
This state has always had a reputation of being the home to more ticket-splitters.
In 2010- Scott Walker won what? - 9 or 10 or 12 percent? -if the democrat vote in Wisconsin?
It -will-happen here.
Well-another example-
In 2020- Ron Johnson got more votes than Donald Trump did. Now, how does that happen?
Ticket splitting- and/or some number of GOP voters refusing to vote for trump-but then voting for the rest of the GOP ticket.
This is what Tamala, and Sherrod, and John, and Rob...etc... need to hope happens in their state: if you are a dem who doesn’t want to vote for Biden, don’t vote for Biden, but at least come out and vote for the rest of the ticket.
This is Tammy’s nightly prayer now, I’d think.
Well-scratch that- she’s probably an atheist.
She claimed she wasn’t in 2016-but has always refused to talk about her religion...or her ‘spirituality’...and so- I’m going to go ahead and assume she’s not praying to a god at the end of the day.
She’s always refused to talk about her faith.
Maybe she’s a satanist.
No?
Or a wiccan?
She doesn’t strike me as a satanist-but i could see her as fitting in perfectly with the wiccan wingnuts who go out and dance under the trees and stars... And talk about their ‘spirituality’.
I don’t know much about the wiccans (obviously), but there’s got to be a high percentage of lesbians in that religion, doesn’t there? Doesn’t that sound like sort of a lesbian ‘thing’?
I don’t know. Maybe it’s because so many people who pop up in the media and say they are wiccan-look like lesbians-
Maybe that’s it.
And I don’t really care either way. If either one of those is ‘your bag’, whatever. There’s no need to try to recruit me, or send me information, or ‘get into contact’ with me-
Which is normally what happening when i mention something like this on the air- to make a few jokes.
It happens every time. On any issue.
Aren’t model trains sort of for dorks?
Oh, no, jay...there’s an entire model train community i need to introduce you to....and its fun group. I belong to a crazy club who calls us the...loco.... motions...get it?
Wanna come to our meeting on Thursday?
No. Thanks. It was a joke. I’m sure you’re fine people.
Any subject: why would anyone watch those awful housewives shows?
Oh-jay- you don’t know. There’s a whole ‘real housewives’ community out there. I belong to a group that watches them together every Friday night as we eat a fish fry. We call ourselves the ‘battered...housewives’....get it?
The fish? It’s battered?
Ugh...
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audio version here > Several Democrats distancing themselves away from Biden/Harris