Biden's Long Shadow 
The latest New York Times/Siena College poll has some cautionary data for Kamala Harris and the KHive. The Times found Harris winning Pennsylvania by 4 points, just outside the margin of error, but deadlocked with Donald Trump nationwide. While Harris beats Trump by 13 points on who best will handle abortion, Trump beats Harris by 13 points on the economy, 12 points on the border, and 8 points on Ukraine.
Among independents, Trump leads by 4 points. Asked if Harris represents change or more of the same, 52 percent of voters said more of the same. By contrast, 59 percent said Trump represents change. He's the disrupter in a year when, according to RealClearPolitics, 61 percent of voters say the country is on the wrong track.
Harris shoulders a burden: Joe Biden. The president's job approval remains low at 42 percent. His personal favorability, also 42 percent, lags behind both Trump's (45 percent) and Harris's (49 percent). This makes Harris's job more difficult. Running for the White House as a sitting vice president is hard enough. Yet the two most recent vice presidents who did it benefited from having bosses who were more popular than they were. That is a luxury Harris does not enjoy.............
.............No miss has been greater than Biden's retreat from Afghanistan. Yes, Trump inked the deal with the Taliban. But that doesn't mean Biden had to abide by it when the Islamic militia fired on U.S. troops and moved to conquer Afghan cities. Biden's obsession with leaving the country by the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks endangered U.S. personnel, U.S. materiel, and countless Afghan allies and civilians.
The botched evacuation led to the deaths of 13 U.S. service members. American citizens were abandoned. And the fallout was only beginning. The Taliban has reimposed its medieval, nihilistic rule, resuming public executions, and subjecting Afghan women and girls to a terrible fate. ISIS-K has regrouped. The spillover affects Pakistan, a nuclear power. There's a reason Biden's job approval never rose above 50 percent after the Afghanistan debacle. It was his worst decision by far.
There have been plenty of other mistakes. The Biden foreign policy is an index of error. Entries include the belief that concessions on energy and arms control would pacify Vladimir Putin; pandering to the United Nations and the Palestinian Authority and Iran; and calling for cuts to defense spending as global risks multiplied. Building diplomatic off-ramps for Vladimir Putin didn't dissuade him from launching the first major land war in Europe since 1945. Endlessly negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program did not put out the ring of fire that the mullahs had traced around Israel. Real cuts to defense spending—before factoring in the effects of inflation—eroded the U.S. deterrent and defense industrial base. Russia, Iran, and China noticed............
..........No end is in sight. Biden's concept of "escalation management" has prolonged these conflicts and made them more dangerous. He's slow-walked aid to Ukraine and restricted its use, giving Putin an edge and putting America in the ridiculous situation where we won't provide Ukraine weapons because we're worried about our own stockpiles. His endless and futile quest for a ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas has convinced the terrorist group that it has a chance of victory. Israel faces U.S. pressure while Hamas's handmaidens, Egypt and Qatar, sit and watch. Meanwhile, Iran ramps up its nuclear program and plots its next move...............
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