{"id":4160,"date":"2024-02-11T13:14:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T13:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/11\/how-biden-erased-progress-he-made-and-alienated-the-left-as-election-looms\/"},"modified":"2024-02-11T13:14:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T13:14:39","slug":"how-biden-erased-progress-he-made-and-alienated-the-left-as-election-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/11\/how-biden-erased-progress-he-made-and-alienated-the-left-as-election-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"How Biden \u2018erased\u2019 progress he made and alienated the left as election looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say president is gravitating back towards his comfort zone in the centre ground, and his refusal to call for ceasefire in Gaza has caused particular fury<\/p>\n<p>In front of a giant banner that said \u201cRestore Roe\u201d, Joe Biden was holding his<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/23\/kamala-harris-campaign-trump-roe-v-wade-abortion-rights\"> first rally of the year<\/a> in Manassas, Virginia, to campaign for abortion rights, a top issue for Democrats in this year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>But Biden did not receive the universal affirmation he might once have expected. His 22-minute speech was interrupted at least a dozen times by protesters scattered throughout the audience who rose to shout out demands for a ceasefire in Gaza. It was a jarring collision that revealed a president who stands accused of befriending then betraying the left \u2013 and now risks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/elections\/bidens-support-from-progressives-at-risk-over-border-bill-and-israel-f44ed8f7\">losing a critical part of his coalition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/feb\/11\/biden-progress-alienated-voters-election-2024\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say president is gravitating back towards his comfort zone in the centre ground, and his refusal to call for ceasefire in Gaza has caused particular fury In front of a giant banner that said \u201cRestore Roe\u201d, Joe Biden was holding his first rally of the year in Manassas, Virginia, to campaign for abortion rights, &#8230; <a title=\"How Biden \u2018erased\u2019 progress he made and alienated the left as election looms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/11\/how-biden-erased-progress-he-made-and-alienated-the-left-as-election-looms\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How Biden \u2018erased\u2019 progress he made and alienated the left as election looms\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}