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.
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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