Biden's Speech Was Not the Win the Political Class Thought It Was
When you dig deeper into the poll, voters gave Biden abysmal marks on the economy, inflation, crime and immigration, with Biden trailing Trump anywhere from 6 to 16 percentage points on those issues.
The misguided media narrative shows the importance of watching the people who will turn this election one way or another, rather than the people who share the media's worldview.
The day after the big speech, Biden came here as his first follow-up. The day began with a visit to Rose Valley, a wealthy majority-white suburb here in Delaware County where the median family income is $118,637 and the poverty level hovered at 1%, to first visit the private home of cafe owner Jack Cunicelli. The Biden campaign promoted the visit as a "kitchen table conversation" with the Cunicelli family, who own 320 Market Cafe in Swarthmore.
Perhaps next time, a visit with a family to have a "kitchen table conversation" might be best done with a family struggling to make ends meet.
Biden later told reporters the oldest Cunicelli brother attended school with his son Hunter Biden in Delaware.
A HarrisX/Forbes overnight poll released five days after the address showed that the speech did indeed land flat with voters, with a whopping 59% saying it served to divide the country further.
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Salena Zito is a CNN political analyst, and a staff reporter and columnist for the Washington Examiner. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through shoe-leather journalism, traveling from Main Street to the beltway and all places in between. To find out more about Salena and read her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
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