Byron York:
Joe Biden, who will be president for 46 more days, leaves office having done terrible damage: the migrant influx, lowered standard of living, chaos abroad. That's his legacy. But beyond that, the damage Biden has done to his party is immense.
Brit Hume’s comment on York’s observation:
He was at turns timid (aid to Ukraine & Israel, soft on Iran), and reckless (Afghanistan pullout, wild Covid spending, open border, reelection bid). These policies and decisions have all proved disastrous
Damage discussed in the article:
The immediate problem will end on Jan. 20, 2025, when Biden leaves office. But the United States, and the Democratic Party, will be dealing with the damage Biden leaves behind for years. There is a reason voters, for 40 years, were never interested in electing the openly ambitious Biden president of the U.S. — until the bizarre circumstances of the 2020 election. They knew for decades that he would not be a good president. And he has proven them right.
Right now, a new analysis shows the damage Biden has done to his party, and it is immense…
… Exit polls show that in the 2024 presidential election, 35% of voters identified as Republicans, while 34% identified as independents, and 31% identified as Democrats. In addition to a big jump in the number of self-identified independents, the news is that in 2024, Democrats slipped to third place in party ID...
… “To provide a sense of scale of the size of this shift, a comparison of 37% of the 2020 presidential turnout to 31% of the 2024 turnout shows there were over 10 million fewer self-identified Democrats voting in this last election,”
