The president went down swinging, and he was swinging left.
Between the stump speeches and public appearances—and multiple closed-door appeals to his Democratic colleagues—President Joe Biden spent the last three weeks of his now-concluded reelection campaign doing something unexpected: rolling out a robust set of progressive policies.
He hammered corporate greed. He promised to make the rich pay more taxes. He pushed for the expansion of Social Security and called for eliminating medical debt. He started drawing up plans for and it signaled a remarkable shift for the Biden campaign.During general election seasons, presidential hopefuls almost always tack politically to the center, hoping to court undecided voters who are presumed to have centrist leanings.
It’s unclear if this surprising new tranche of Biden proposals will become priorities for Vice President Kamala Harris, who is. Still, that the president pushed an emphatic vision of governing in the interest of the middle and working class was a welcome development—even if it was way too late to save his campaign.historically low approval ratings
this year, the move to refocus his campaign around popular policies makes plenty of sense. And it gave his campaign a way to highlight the vast difference between Democrats and Project 2025, the conservative policy wish list put together by a bunch of former Trump aides and affiliates, which is chock full of deeply unpopular suggestions, including abolishing the Department of Education.American voters continue to hate Trump, who is scarcely more beloved than Biden.
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