Panic Time

Democrats are in freakout mode:

They are so bad that Politico put no less than five reporters on a story detailing the "full-blown freakout" occurring within the Democratic Party over the president's re-election prospects. That's not hyperbole on my part. "Dems in full-blown 'freakout' over Biden" is the headline of the piece. A pervasive sense of fear has settled in at the highest levels of the Democratic Party over President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects, even among officeholders and strategists who had previously expressed confidence about the coming battle with Donald Trump. All year, Democrats had been on a joyless and exhausting grind through the 2024 election. But now, nearly five months from the election, anxiety has morphed into palpable trepidation, according to more than a dozen party leaders and operatives. And the gap between what Democrats will say on TV or in print, and what they’ll text their friends, has only grown as worries have surged about Biden’s prospects. A quick check of the polling average shows that Biden has only led in one of the last eight polls, with the president posting just a single-point advantage according to Quinnipiac. Given the dynamics of the electoral college, which suppose a three to four-point lead would be necessary for Biden to prevail, that's simply not going to cut it. No Democrat wants to be the one to admit it publicly, though they all know it. “You don’t want to be that guy who is on the record saying we’re doomed, or the campaign’s bad or Biden’s making mistakes. Nobody wants to be that guy,” said a Democratic operative in close touch with the White House and granted anonymity to speak freely. But Biden’s stubbornly poor polling and the stakes of the election “are creating the freakout,” he said. Let's be honest about what's really got Democrats losing their minds at the moment. It's not just that Biden is lagging in the polls due to his terrible tenure as president. It's that their lawfare gambit appears to be failing. It's not just the possibility of a conviction backfiring that has them needing smelling salts, though. Democrats are facing another outcome that could prove catastrophic.

It's a self-made disaster...