When campaigns are in meltdown, it seems like nothing they touch goes right. And there are lots of

symptoms when campaigns are in meltdown. For example, it's very difficult for those campaigns

to get their own voters back into the fold. This is true, obviously, of re-elect campaigns.

This is true for Jimmy Carter in 1980, who had a really difficult time getting Democrats back

in the fold. He had barely one election,

in a very close election in 1976 against Gerald Ford, and then he ran against Ronald Reagan.

He got absolutely walloped. Well, Joe Biden is now in the middle of a campaign meltdown,

and you can tell it. You can tell it because every story about the Biden campaign is how he is

struggling to win back voters that already should be in his back pocket.

And it also means that his campaign is now attempting bizarre and sundry tactics in order

to gain headlines in the middle of a cycle, a news cycle that is terrible for him.

So in the past few weeks, we have articles about how Joe Biden doesn't believe the polls.

That is a great symptom of a campaign that is failing.

If you are out there telling the media that you don't believe the polls, typically that means you're losing.

Or for example, Axios today, quote Biden launching a new strategy to win black voters.

Let's be clear about this. The black vote in

the United States has gone for the Democrats by extraordinary numbers every single election cycle

for the past several decades. In fact, black voters were the key to Biden's 2020 win.

The numbers for Biden among black voters in 2020 were extraordinary.

He got great turnout, particularly in terms of mail-ins, and he got an extraordinarily

high percentage of the vote from black voters in 2020.

But now, Joe Biden is in real trouble, and he's having a tough time actually winning back

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