Biden’s powerful electoral message emerges

Biden’s powerful electoral message emerges


President Joe Biden delivered what the New York Times described as a “ferocious condemnation” of Donald Trump on Friday at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Biden framed the stakes in the coming election as deciding whether our freedoms will continue in a constitutional republic whose future is on the line.

Biden argued that America can’t afford to have a president like Donald Trump, whose Supreme Court appointees have already taken away reproductive freedom, and who could well put on the chopping block other rights that have been constitutionally guaranteed since 1789.

Plainly, however, democracy will not be his only theme in the months ahead. Over time, Biden’s campaign will emphasize its belief that voters are still bound by the traditional political gravity of a good economy.
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In elections, of course, even the starkest moral choices live within a context of our tangible lives, most importantly our ability to put food on the table and pay the bills. That is where, down the line, Biden will hammer just as ferociously on his second theme: He has presided over a robust economic recovery that is producing real wage increases and growing consumer confidence.
As Axios Markets summarized it on January 3, “The U.S. boasts the strongest economy of any rich nation. The much-predicted 2023 recession failed to appear, employment has remained robust, real wages have been rising, and the outlook for 2024 is similarly healthy.”

Let’s look at five areas where that success, presuming it continues, will be impossible for voters to ignore.

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