Responsibility for anti-Semitism, immigration and criminal activity
New York Democrats are in full “the sky is falling” panic mode — as exemplified by Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine fretting: “I truly believe we’re a battleground state now.”
Both Politico and Axios reported on the panic last week, as state leaders are begging the Biden campaign to spend here to bolster down-ballot Democrats.
It’s also likely why less-progressive Empire State Dems are the ones saying Biden should step aside.
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Rochester Rep. Joe Morelle reportedly said the question on the prez’s ability to continue to serve is “the challenge. I don’t think he’s met that challenge yet.”
Rep. Pat Ryan, who in 2022 barely won his Hudson Valley swing district, sighed: “Joe Biden is a patriot but is no longer the best candidate to defeat Trump.”
President Biden’s stock is in freefall here. The Siena poll showed him with only a 12-point lead over Trump in February, dropping to just eight points in June.
But it’s simply not fallout from Joe’s condition; it’s crime, the migrant influx and raging antisemitism — issues that national and state Democrats won’t confront.
And the New York voter revolt began long before that Trump-Biden debate.
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