The Biden campaign is getting increasingly pulled to the left with all their pandering – especially because they are laboring under the delusion that going hard left will win them the youth vote.

Want to bribe the “kids” into voting for Joe Biden? Proclaim that you’re wiping out their student loan debt! And when the Supreme Court says no, do it anyway! And then find another way to do it again!

The college kids are raving anti-Semites, and you’re desperate to not lose votes in the swing state of Michigan? Have old Joe talk about a “come to Jesus” moment with Netanyahu! And then demand that Israel fight Hamas without harming any civilians at all! Send Chuck Schumer out to make an ass of himself by demanding new elections for a democratically-elected government! And then why not stab Israel straight in the back by “abstaining” from a Security Council vote in the United Nations that demands a ceasefire without demanding the return of the hostages? (And then the administration has the gall to act surprised when Israel tells them to forget holding that security meeting at the White House. And as the cherry on top, Hamas rejected the ceasefire deal anyway.)

And we have all seen that the Biden campaign is staking out their pro-abortion policy as one of their highest priorities.

So here is the Biden team again, trying to bribe their way into the good graces of the youth vote. Their target this time? Federal marijuana policy.

Vice President Kamala Harris looked up from prepared remarks in the White House’s ornate Roosevelt Room this month to make sure the reporters in the room could hear her clearly: “Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed.”

Harris’ “marijuana reform roundtable” was a striking reminder of how the politics have shifted for a onetime prosecutor raised in the “Just Say No” era of zero-tolerance drug enforcement. As President Biden seeks badly needed support from young people, his administration is banking on cannabis policy as a potential draw.

The challenge is significant. Biden is viewed favorably by only 31% of people ages 18 through 29, much worse than he fares with other age groups, according to a recent Economist/YouGov poll. Though he leads former President Trump by 21 percentage points in that age group, he needs a high turnout to repeat his 2020 formula. Biden’s age probably has played a role in alienating a group that is both essential for Democrats and historically harder to galvanize than older voters, who more consistently show up at the polls.

What’s more, the biggest step Biden is taking is incremental and not in his full control. The president wants regulators to move marijuana from a Schedule I classification under the Controlled Substances Act — the most restrictive category of drugs that also includes heroin — to Schedule III, a still highly regulated group of drugs that includes anabolic steroids.

That decision is now under review by the Drug Enforcement Administration, which has historically resisted looser drug laws and usually taken many years to review such rule changes within the law, which has been in effect since 1971.

Even if the DEA agrees, it will not mean marijuana is legal at the national level, something that frustrates some cannabis advocates.

Let’s leave aside whether you agree with this potential DEA Schedule change or not. To have Joe Biden and Kamala Harris trying to claim that a loosening of the drug laws is their idea and will totally win them some youth votes is laughable in the extreme. Both of them have a LONG record of saying and doing the exact opposite on this issue. This was a known issue during the 2020 campaign, because Joe Biden was a sponsor of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986.

Kamala Harris has a long record of prosecuting marijuana possession, despite her position now – and got her clock cleaned during the 2020 Democrat primary debates over it.

You didn't see @TulsiGabbard eviscerate @KamalaHarris in the 2020 primary debates, did you? pic.twitter.com/hIl8JeR5Ti

— Ken Newhouse (@KenNewhouse1) March 20, 2024

Biden has reversed himself on drug policy, but only within the executive branch, not by passing new laws. He pardoned federal convictions of simple marijuana possession, and now wants to reclassify marijuana in the hopes that it buys him some votes.

Like most things related to the Biden campaign, this new pro-pot reform is nothing more than extreme pandering in light of some very bad poll numbers.
https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1772278848014475372
Will all this bribing and pandering work to pull in the youth vote? Even if it does, the kids are not the problem for Team Biden. Many voters are thinking about staying home. Some voters are simply angry about Biden’s policies and are talking anecdotally about switching their vote. The election is still a long way off, but Joe Biden won’t be any younger or more appealing to the coveted age 18 to 30 bracket in November. This is all the campaign’s got. Will it be enough?

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