[News] Why Biden's closing argument worries some Democrats and could miss the mark with midterm voters

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WASHINGTON – Joe Biden crisscrossed the stage for a half-hour before he delivered his gravest warning yet.

The president – his right hand holding a microphone, his left casually in his suit pocket – returned to the podium and paused. 

"This is really deadly earnest, man," Biden told the Florida Memorial University crowd during a campaign rally last week in Miami. "Democracy is on the ballot this year. Along with your right to choose and the right to privacy."

Biden has spent the final days of an uphill midterm campaign for Democrats imploring that modern-day Republicans are uniquely dangerous – willing to destroy democracy to gain power, ban abortion nationally, cut Social Security and Medicare and, if they don't get their way on entitlements, crash the economy by forcing the government into default.

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President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign rally at Florida Memorial University on November 01, 2022 in Miami Gardens, Florida.
In his closing argument to halt Republican momentum before Tuesday's election, Biden has painted a dark picture of a possible "mega MAGA Republican" Congress. "This ain't your father's Republican Party," he's stressed repeatedly, focusing less on his own accomplishments and more on the intentions of his opponents. 

Yet there are serious doubts, including among Democrats, whether Biden's doomsday portrayal of Republicans has broken through as stubborn inflation and pocketbook issues weigh on voters. Some in the party say Democrats should have touched more on economic concerns earlier in the campaign and less about restoring abortion rights, which dominated Democratic ads for much of the race, in part on the advice of the "governing consulting class."

 

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