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If President Bidens approval doesnt rebound soon, the Democrats may try to replace him with former First Lady Michelle Obama. Thats according to an article in the New York Post.

New York Post columnist Cindy Adams reports that former President Barack Obama, is polling donors to get their thoughts.

Obamas team has sent surveys to some of the big donors inside the Democratic Party, asking for their views.

But the Post says the schedule to replace Biden is no longer in the summer, but the timeline has moved up between March and May of this year.

Adams warned in a piece published Wednesday that Americans shouldnt be shocked if Michelle Obama sneaks her way into the 2024 race.

The rumor about Michelle Obama occurred after her husband Barack met with Biden in December of last year, where the the Wall Street Journal reported that Obama is among those on the left who fear a return of Trump to the presidency.

If Michelle Obama launches a candidacy for the 2024 presidential election, its a whole new ballgame, said former Fox TV host and current Sirius XM radio host Megyn Kelly.

On her radio show, Kelly said Michelle Obama is more talented than Joe Biden is politically.

Whether it works this time, as a pundit, I remain skeptical, said Kelly.

In September of 2023, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex) said he believed Michelle Obama could be parachuted in at the Democratic National Convention this August and at the last moment, she would save the day.

Still, the speculation of Biden running this year remains a hot topic on talk radio. Bidens advisers say its a guarantee he is running, but others have their doubts.

JPMorgan strategist Michael Cembalest listed his list of Ten Surprises for 2024, and one of those was Biden will not run for re-election.

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Three years into President Bidens presidency, the continuation of the Obama administrations Iran policy getting money to the mullahs and relaxing sanctions in hopes of friendship has resulted in disaster: Three American soldiers were killed over the weekend in a drone attack by Tehran-backed militias.

Iran is wreaking havoc across the Middle East. The regimes proxies are striking U.S. assets and personnel in Iraq, in Syria, and off the coast of Yemen. They are striking Israel from the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. The entire region is on the verge of a wider war.

All of this was avoidable. The Trump administration had Iran contained through its maximum pressure policy. But the Biden administration has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. The lax enforcement of sanctions in particular has boosted Irans revenue and widened its access to its foreign currency reserves.

Since Mr. Biden took office in 2021, Iran has exported over $100 billion in oil. According to United Against Nuclear Irans Tanker Trackers database, oil exports increased from around 800 thousand barrels per day on average under President Donald Trump to 1.4 million barrels per day on average in 2023.

Not surprisingly, this relaxed sanction enforcement has benefited Irans proxies. In the case of the Houthis, Tehran facilitates a Yemeni oil-smuggling network to sell Iranian oil, transferring the proceeds to the Houthis through Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned this network while targeting other figures associated with the Houthis in recent weeks.

But these are half measures. As long as significant oil revenue keeps coming in, significant funds will continue to flow to the regimes proxies.

But oil money is not the only problem. Irans non-oil exports have also skyrocketed. From March 2022 to March 2023, the regime exported over $53 billion in non-oil goods, a significant increase from $35 billion two years earlier. An alarming percentage of this flows to Iraq, which serves as a hub for sanctions evasion and money laundering for Tehran.

Over the years, the Treasury Department has targeted networks of Iraqi companies and nationals that have been working with the IRGC Quds Force in Iraq to facilitate the financing of terrorism and money laundering. Again, this has been insufficient. Iran-backed militant groups continue to accumulate cash and influence.

These funds also translate directly to violence. With funding and weapons supplied by Iran, these militias have attacked U.S. bases more than 150 times since Mr. Biden took office. Remarkably, most of these attacks have gone unanswered.

The problem is not just one of deterrence. The real problem is the Biden administrations refusal to acknowledge the unraveling of the Iran policy that originated under President Barack Obama. Last year, Washington granted Iran access to $6 billion of its frozen reserves in South Korea and over $12 billion in gas and electricity export revenue in Iraq.

That greater access to cash afforded by the Biden administration has led directly to an increase in funding that Iran provides to its regional allies and proxies. Israeli sources assert that Iran increased its funding of Hamas last year from $100 million to $350 million. The Telegraph reported that Iran has invested more money to foment violence out of Yemen, recruiting and paying Houthi fighters $100 a month or more in an impoverished country. This is in addition to the lethal weapons and military equipment Tehran sends to the Houthis either by sea or through Oman.

All of this has enabled Iran and its proxies to spark a Middle Eastern war that only seems to be intensifying. This is posing a direct threat to the lives of U.S. military personnel in Iraq, in Syria, and off the coast of Yemen. This has also threatened the populations of Israel, Jordan, Egypt and other nations. It has seriously encumbered global energy security and shipping, which is inexorably leading to domestic and global inflation. More broadly, it undermines the U.S.-led global order.

The Biden administration must make immediate changes to its policy to curtail Irans capacity for chaos. A two-pronged approach is urgently needed. This involves reducing the military capabilities of Tehran and its proxies by striking back at the proxies that strike American bases and warships and also intensifying economic warfare through stringent enforcement of U.S. sanctions.

But even if the U.S. begins to change course, a wider acknowledgment is needed. President Biden must understand that the Middle East will never see peace as long as the regime in Tehran remains in place. The downfall of the Islamic Republic is achievable. It can be done through a combination of maximum pressure on the regime and maximum support for the Iranian people.

Saeed Ghasseminejad is a senior adviser on Iran at Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Follow him on X @SGhassemenijad.

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Biden won't acknowledge the failure of Obama's Iran strategy - Washington Times

President Joe Bidens 2024 reelection campaign is planning a fundraiser combining three recent Democratic presidents as his team looks to shore up support and expand their war chest going into the general election.

The Biden campaign is reportedly working on enlisting the help of former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton for an event alongside Biden, according to NBC News.

Officials on Bidens campaign reportedly hope the event manages not only to raise cash for the presidents reelection bid but also usher in headlines about the appearance of all three men together.

With the assistance of Clinton and Obama, the Biden team believes it can inspire more enthusiasm among voters at a time when concerns over support for Biden and running mate Vice President Kamala Harris have emerged in the face of poor poll numbers.

Bidens campaign did not provide comment to the Washington Examiner.

Representatives for the three presidents are discussing scheduling for a desired springtime fundraiser, according to the outlet. No date has been set yet, but the event is expected to be set for March or April.

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Without the high-profile fundraiser in the works, Biden managed to pull in $97 million for his reelection bid in the last quarter of 2023. As his team prepares for what promises to be a cutthroat general election competition, they are going into the matchup with a war chest of $117 million.

However, while Biden has proven his campaigns fundraising ability, the campaign is struggling to ramp up enthusiasm among Democratic and independent voters. Former President Donald Trump has taken advantage of this, expanding his lead over Biden in the RealClearPolitics polling average of the general election. Last week, Trump held a lead of several points over the president, 47.3% to 43%.

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said this week that President Joe Bidens border crisis is so dire, it makes former President Barack Obamas border crisis seem minuscule by comparison.

Cruz remarks, which he made during his Verdict podcast, came after U.S. Customs and Border Protection released numbers late last week showing the more than 302,000 illegal aliens were encountered on the U.S. southern border last month, by far the highest number in history.

Listen, illegal immigration was a problem under Barack Obama, was a serious problem under Barack Obama, but I gotta say, compared to now, its night and day, Cruz said. The Obama immigration problems seem quaint, that they are minuscule compared to what is happening now. The order of magnitude Ive joked multiple times that Joe Biden has done something I thought was impossible. Hes made me miss Barack Obama.

Cruz said that outside of DACA, Obama by and large, followed the law.

For people crossing illegally into the country, Barack Obama deported millions of people, Cruz said. If you remember, during the Obama administration, the Left got very mad. They called him the deporter in chief. And that made a difference. What has happened here under Joe Biden, and weve never seen a president do this in over 200 years of our nations history. There has never been a president that utterly and completely defies U.S. law, and lets people go by massive numbers.

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So for example, theres an authority under federal immigration law called parole authority, which is, you can release people in limited and special circumstances, Cruz continued. Under Obama, he would parole roughly 5,000 illegal immigrants a year. Under Trump, it was a comparable number. How much Biden is doing? About 800,000 a year. He took Obamas 5,000 a year and he blew it up to 800,000. Theyve made a decision, We are going to allow an invasion.'

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On the campaign trail in 2016, Donald Trump often criticized President Barack Obama and Washington more broadly by invoking a very large number: the scale of the federal debt.

Weve doubled our national debt to $20 trillion under President Obama, he said during an October 2016 speech in Pennsylvania. In less than eight years, $10 trillion has been added. Think of it.

There were a few reasons for him to raise this issue (which, unlike other assertions he made during that campaign, was essentially true). One, of course, was that it was a way to seize upon the broad distaste Americans have for paying taxes and specifically, the lingering anger among Republicans about taxation and spending. The other was that this was still an issue on which Republican candidates focused though, once in office, not much was generally done to address it.

So it was with Trump. When he came into office, the debt was just a tick under $20 trillion. By the time he left in only four years, half the duration of Obamas White House tenure it had grown to just under $28 trillion. It remains the single largest four-year increase in history, though President Biden (who has seen the debt increase $6.4 trillion so far in his presidency) may give him a run for his money.

Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, who is running against Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, has at times criticized Trump for allowing the debt to increase so rapidly. This, too, isnt a mystery; while there wasnt a great deal of Republican criticism while Trump was overseeing the increase, it is still an issue on which Republicans in particular have strong feelings.

A Washington Post-538-Ipsos poll conducted this month found that 3 in 10 Republicans viewed the federal debt as one of the most important issues facing the country. Only inflation and immigration came in higher.

Trumps response to such criticism is simple: The economy was humming, and then the coronavirus pandemic hit. Thats why the debt surged so much. This was an argument used in defense of Obama, too, that the exogenous financial crash meant that enormous spending was suddenly needed. (Not that Trump often acknowledged that argument in 2016.)

New analysis from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, though, undermines Trumps argument. It considered several policies signed into law by Trump and found that, on a 10-year time span (as such legislation usually operates), Trumps administration added more than $8 trillion to the debt.

Importantly, less than half of that was a function of the pandemic.

The CRFB analysis indicates that when Trump came into office, the government was projected to add at least $3 trillion in debt over four years an estimate that derives from commitments made by previous presidents. Trump exceeded that (largely thanks to covid) but then also pushed up the debt for the presidents that followed him (including, should he win in November, himself).

While Americans like to complain about taxes, and the debt is a perennial source of performative frustration the old leaving debt for our grandkids line is about a century old they often dont really care that much if the spending is on things they like.

This very much fits into Trumpian politics, of course. Say the thing that people expect to hear, and then dont worry much about doing something else.

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