President Joe Biden’s approval numbers for his third year in office were the worst among every commander-in-chief since Jimmy Carter, according to <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/609188/biden-third-year-job-approval-average-second-worst.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polling data</a> from Gallup.
Throughout his third year in office — January 20, 2023, through January 19, 2024 — Biden had an average approval rating of 39.8%. That average was the second worst among every president over the past 68 years, coming in just ahead of President Jimmy Carter’s 37.4% approval rating from 1979 to 1980, Gallup found.
The poor approval ratings for Biden heading into the 2024 election don’t bode well for his campaign. Since the Eisenhower administration, every president who has won re-election either cleared a 50% approval rating in their fourth year or came within two points of 50%. President Barack Obama, who had an average approval rating of 48.1% in his fourth year, was the only president in the past 70 years to win a second term with a sub-50% approval rating going into his re-election. Carter, whose third-year approval rating was the worst in the past 70 years, was <a href="https://www.270towin.com/1980_Election/interactive_map" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blown out</a> by Ronald Reagan in the 1980 election, winning only 49 electoral votes to Reagan&#8217;s 489.
“Biden begins his reelection campaign with a job approval rating significantly below the 50% mark that has been associated with winning a second term,” Gallup <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/609188/biden-third-year-job-approval-average-second-worst.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “And while some presidents have seen sharp improvements in their fourth year and won a second term, Biden’s third-year rating was worse than any of theirs, suggesting he has a bigger hill to climb.”
As the 2024 election nears, Biden faces multiple issues from a growing conflict in the Middle East and ongoing war in Ukraine to a porous southern border and Americans frustrated with the economy and inflation. <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/immigration-emerges-key-2024-wedge-issue-trump-vulnerability/story?id=106635907#:~:text=Voters%20there%20ranked%20immigration%20nearly,in%20the%20Republican%20presidential%20contests." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Immigration and the economy</a> consistently <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4422273-immigration-overtakes-inflation-top-voter-concern-poll/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">top</a> the list of issues voters are most concerned about heading into the election.
Biden’s rival former President Donald Trump has once again made addressing the border crisis a top priority for his 2024 presidential campaign. As the fight between the Biden administration and Texas over border security heated up this week, Trump called on states to send their national guards to Texas to support the state in its effort to repel illegal immigrants.
“We encourage all willing States to deploy their guards to Texas to prevent the entry of Illegals, and to remove them back across the Border,” Trump <a href="https://djt.nucleusemail.com/amplify/v/ejK6YvpBgU?hids=oxY2iP8e&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=ncl_amplify&amp;utm_campaign=240125-statement_by_donald_j_trump_45th_president_of_the_united_states_duplicate&amp;utm_content=ncl-XtEFcKYXS7&amp;_nlid=XtEFcKYXS7&amp;_nhids=oxY2iP8e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “All Americans should support the commonsense measures by Texas authorities to protect the Safety, Security, and Sovereignty of Texas, and of the American people.”
Meanwhile, Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/01/26/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-the-bipartisan-senate-border-security-negotiations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continues to urge</a> Congress to pass bipartisan legislation addressing the illegal immigration crisis and giving Biden more power “to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed.”
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Along with underwater approval numbers, Biden also faces an electorate that is overwhelmingly pessimistic about the direction of the country. According to the Real Clear Politics <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/state-of-the-union/direction-of-country" target="_blank" rel="noopener">average</a>, two-thirds of voters say the U.S. is heading in the wrong direction while only 24% say the country is on the right track.

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Rosalynn Carter, the wife of former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-carter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Carter</a>, died &#8220;peacefully&#8221; on Sunday afternoon at their home in Plains, Georgia, accompanied by family, according to the Carter Center.
The former first lady was 96 years old.
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Our co-founder, former U.S. First Lady Rosalynn Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia. 
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The Carters were married to each other for 77 years, a union that included their peanut farm days, Jimmy&#8217;s Carter&#8217;s Georgia governorship, a term in the White House, and decades of community service.
“Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,” Jimmy Carter, who is now 99, said in a statement. “She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.&#8221;
The Carter Center announced in May that Rosalynn Carter had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter-diagnosed-with-dementia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dementia</a> and on Friday shared an update that said she had <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4315397-rosalynn-carter-enters-hospice-care/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entered hospice care</a> alongside her husband. Jimmy Carter opted to forgo further &#8220;medical intervention&#8221; for his health and instead receive hospice care while spending time with family, the center <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-hospice.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in February.
Describing Rosalynn Carter as a &#8220;passionate champion of mental health, caregiving, and women’s rights,&#8221; the Carter Center said on Sunday that the former first lady was survived by her children — Jack, Chip, Jeff, and Amy — and 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. A grandson died in 2015, the center noted.
“Besides being a loving mother and extraordinary First Lady, my mother was a great humanitarian in her own right,” Chip Carter said in a statement. “Her life of service and compassion was an example for all Americans. She will be sorely missed not only by our family but by the many people who have better mental health care and access to resources for caregiving today.”
Tributes to Rosalynn Carter quickly began to inundate social media with news of her death.
&#8220;First Lady Rosalynn Carter dedicated her life to serving others. America has lost a passionate humanitarian and champion for people all over the world. My heart goes out to her entire family,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1726342446089719864" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
The Carter Center said a schedule of memorial events and funeral ceremonies for Rosalynn Carter will be distributed &#8220;as soon as possible&#8221; to media and <a href="https://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/2023/statement-rosalynn-carter-111923.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted online</a>.

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The presidential centers for thirteen ex-presidents issued a rare joint statement addressing the state of American <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">democracy</a> on Thursday, calling for “compassion, tolerance, pluralism, and respect” in the political arena.
With signatories from the foundation of former Presidents Herbert Hoover to Barack Obama, the <a href="https://www.bushcenter.org/publications/reaffirming-americans-commitment-to-a-more-perfect-union" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> outlined American values, the importance of its institutions, and “reaffirm[ed]” each foundation’s “commitment to the principles of democracy.” This is the first time presidential libraries have joined together for a statement of this sort, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/united-states-democracy-presidents-threats-joint-statement-5530a89df2c41d58a22961f63fb0e6ff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press.
“As a diverse nation of people with different backgrounds and beliefs, democracy holds us together,” the statement says. “We are a country rooted in the rule of law, where the protection of the rights of all people is paramount. At the same time, we live among our fellow citizens, underscoring the importance of compassion, tolerance, pluralism, and respect for others.”
The message, titled “Strengthening our democracy,” said that the United States has not always lived up to its stated ideals, but that “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” has enabled the country to strive toward a “more perfect union.” The signatories said they represented a large and diverse swath of the American people, adding that they believe those views can “exist peaceably side by side when rooted in the principles of democracy.”
“Debate and disagreement are central features in a healthy democracy,” the statement continues. “Civility and respect in political discourse, whether in an election year or otherwise, are essential.”
On the current state of American democracy, the statement suggested that the country is currently a “house in disarray,” which they argued undermines the ability of the U.S. to support democracy and human rights abroad. “The world will not wait for us to address our problems, so we must both continue to strive toward a more perfect union and help those abroad looking for U.S. leadership,” the statement says, adding that American leaders who “govern effectively” and “deliver for the American people” will help to “restore trust in public service.&#8221;
Signatories include the foundations, libraries, or organizations connected to former presidents Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Harry Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Hoover.
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The joint statement was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/united-states-democracy-presidents-threats-joint-statement-5530a89df2c41d58a22961f63fb0e6ff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> organized by the George W. Bush Institute’s executive director, David Kramer, a former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor under George W. Bush, who reportedly &#8220;signed off&#8221; on the letter himself. Kramer leaked the infamous Steele Dossier &#8212; that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/buzzfeed-news-to-shut-down-after-11-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contained</a> unfounded rumors and innuendo about former President Donald Trump &#8212; to Buzzfeed News in an alleged attempt to prevent his 2017 inauguration, according to a <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/27/npr-interview-david-kramer-leaked-steele-dossier-buzzfeed-news-prevent-donald-trump-inauguration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Daily Caller. Funded by the Clinton campaign for opposition research, the FBI used the dossier to obtain warrants to surveil Trump&#8217;s 2016 campaign.
The Eisenhower Foundation said in a statement to the Associated Press that they “respectfully declined to sign this statement,” adding, “It would be the first common statement that the presidential centers and foundations have ever issued as a group, but we have had no collective discussion about it, only an invitation to sign.”
It’s not clear if anyone from Trump’s team was ever approached to sign the letter. While there is a <a href="https://www.trumplibrary.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> for Trump’s presidential library, he does not yet have a physical location for one, and he hasn’t announced plans for one.

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Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie slammed President Joe Biden on Sunday for the high inflation rates that have defined his presidency, saying that he is the &#8220;Jimmy Carter of the 2020s.&#8221;
CNN host Kasie Hunt asked Christie if Biden deserved any credit for inflation rates slowly starting to come down after peaking at 40 year highs under his presidency.
&#8220;Kasie, what he deserves credit for is the fact that everything is 17 percent more expensive today than it was when he took the oath of office on January 20 of 2021,&#8221; Christie said. &#8220;Interest rates are at one of its high — our highest level in 25 years, making it much more expensive for people to buy a home, to buy a car, to be able to invest in their business and grow it to create jobs. This guy is the Jimmy Carter of the 2020s.&#8221;
&#8220;And his inflation that he created — and don&#8217;t take my word for it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Democratic economist, former Treasury Secretary to Bill Clinton Larry Summers has said that Joe Biden created this inflation through his ridiculous spending.&#8221;
Christie said that &#8220;all Republican Party voters and all American voters deserve are two things, the truth. The truth is not negotiable.&#8221;
&#8220;And I&#8217;m not going to say something different on your program than I will anywhere else in this country. And, second, they need someone who can deliver on the issues they care about on the border, on Obamacare, on the national debt, on entitlement programs,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Donald Trump failed on all those when he was president, even with a Republican Congress. Elect me president, and I won&#8217;t.&#8221;
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Former first lady <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-carter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rosalynn Carter</a> has dementia, the Carter Center said in a statement on Tuesday.
The 95-year-old wife of former President Jimmy Carter continues to live &#8220;happily at home with her husband, enjoying spring in Plains and visits with loved ones.&#8221;
The statement noted Rosalynn Carter&#8217;s lifelong work as an advocate for mental health services, dating back to when her husband was the governor of Georgia.
&#8220;As the founder of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers, Mrs. Carter often noted that there are only four kinds of people in this world: those who have been caregivers; those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need caregivers,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;The universality of caregiving is clear in our family, and we are experiencing the joy and the challenges of this journey. We do not expect to comment further and ask for understanding for our family and for everyone across the country serving in a caregiver role.&#8221;
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The Carter family is sharing that former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia. She continues to live happily at home with her husband, enjoying spring in Plains and visits with loved ones.
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The statement also noted the prevalence of dementia in senior citizens, adding that the disease can lead to other health and mental health problems for those suffering from it.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-carter">Jimmy Carter</a>, 98, is facing his own health problems and has &#8220;decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention,&#8221; the Carter Center said back in February. &#8220;He has the full support of his family and his medical team.&#8221;
Earlier this year, the family of actor Bruce Willis, 67, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-bruce-willis-diagnosed-with-frontotemporal-dementia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
Frontotemporal dementia often begins with changes in personality, including apathy and loss of inhibition, before progressing to memory loss. Though the exact cause is unknown, the symptoms are the result of damage to the neurons in a person’s frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, and there is currently no cure for the disease.
“Since we announced Bruce’s diagnosis of aphasia in spring 2022, Bruce’s condition has progressed and we now have a more specific diagnosis: frontotemporal dementia (known as FTD),” the family said. “Unfortunately, challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease Bruce faces. While this is painful, it is a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis.”
“FTD is a cruel disease that many of us have never heard of and can strike anyone. For people under 60, FTD is the most common form of dementia, and because getting the diagnosis can take years, FTD is likely much more prevalent than we know,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;Today there are no treatments for the disease, a reality that we hope can change in the years ahead. As Bruce’s condition advances, we hope that any media attention can be focused on shining a light on this disease that needs far more awareness and research.”
Willis’ family shared a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bruce-willis-reveals-diagnosis-that-is-taking-him-out-of-the-hollywood-game" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> last year on social media announcing that he was stepping away from his acting career after he had been diagnosed at the time with <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/aphasia/symptoms-causes/syc-20369518">aphasia</a>, a disorder that affects speech. Aphasia, often caused by head injury or stroke, can also develop gradually as a result of other neurodegenerative diseases.
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I am just old enough to remember the latter half of the 1970s – the Jimmy Carter years. I remember the Iranian hostage crisis and the botched rescue attempt. I remember my parents trying to purchase a home when interest rates were at double digits. Most of all, I remember a sense of malaise, a feeling that America had seen its best days, and that the sun was setting on the American dream. It took the election of Ronald Reagan to pull America out of its &#8216;funk,&#8217; and restore American greatness.
Fast forward 50 years to the 2020s — the Joe Biden years — and the similarities are striking and frightening. We have an unpopular Democrat President, we are facing rising energy costs, crime runs unchecked in our streets, rank-and-file military personnel are demoralized, and the United States is no longer respected on the world stage.
There is one major difference between the situation in which the United States found itself in the 1970s and that which we find ourselves today. Today, all our pains are self-inflicted. Three examples prove the point: the economy, our energy crisis, and crime.
The economy of the late 1970s was characterized by high inflation and high interest rates, both in the double digits. Inflation in 2023 is worse than the legacy media reports. The March 2023 Consumer Price Index, the standard measure of inflation, <a href="https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2023/energy-prices-down-6-4-percent-from-march-2022-to-march-2023.htm#:~:text=Over%20the%2012%20months%20ended,6.4%20percent%20since%20March%202022." target="_blank" rel="noopener">increased</a> 5% over the rate in March 2022. However, the CPI in March 2022 had increased 8.5% over the rate in March 2021. According to the <a href="https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/consumer-prices-up-8-5-percent-for-year-ended-march-2022.htm#:~:text=The%20Consumer%20Price%20Index%20increased,month%20advance%20since%20December%201981." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bureau of Labor Statistics</a> the March 2022 number was, at the time, the largest increase since December 1981. This means that compared to March 2021, the March 2023 inflation rate had increased by a whopping 13.5%. This is comparable to the rates seen in the 1970s.
The cause of the current inflation is simply due to the Biden administration’s monetary policy of printing trillions of dollars and then pumping that money into the economy in the name of COVID relief. Sadly, there is still more government money that will flood into the economy as money from Biden’s so-called Inflation Reduction Act moves from “allocated” to “spent.”
Beyond inflation, today&#8217;s energy crisis parallels that of the 1970s.
Sparked by the Yom Kippur War in October 1973, the “Arab oil <a href="https://www.history.com/news/energy-crisis-1970s-innovation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">embargo</a> of 1973 put the United States economy on the back foot, causing fuel shortages, a quadrupling of oil prices and long lines at gas stations,” according to History.com. The auto industry responded by developing smaller, compact cars that achieved much better gas mileage than the larger cars that were popular at the time.
In the 2020s, the high cost of gas is being driven by the energy policy of the Biden regime. President Biden has canceled pipelines, delayed, or canceled drilling permits throughout the nation, and has stated that <a href="https://www.heritage.org/energy-economics/commentary/bidens-civil-war-energy-leaving-endless-collateral-damage-its-wake" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the age of fossil fuels</a> is over. This increased the price of oil up significantly. In a purely political move to temporarily reduce gas prices, President Biden began draining America’s Strategic Oil Reserves, even selling some of that oil to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/daneberhart/2023/01/21/bidens-spr-drawdown-big-win-for-beijing/?sh=179545cb3677" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a>.
Unlike the 1970s, the free market is not driving the innovation to address today’s energy crisis. Instead, the government is picking winners and losers, bowing to the “green” mob’s wishes, and pushing for electric vehicles — vehicles that require minerals mined in Africa, owned by the Chinese, in order to create batteries manufactured by Chinese companies.
It isn’t just economic factors bringing us back to the 1970s, but crime as well. Those of us of a certain age remember the dystopian hellscape that was our major cities in the 1970s, especially New York City. Burned out buildings, murders, and drugs ruled the Big Apple. Long before Times Square became a tourist attraction, it was a cesspool of prostitution, porn shops, and strip clubs.
The murder rate in the United States has fallen since <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/187592/death-rate-from-homicide-in-the-us-since-1950/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1979</a>, from 10.4 murders per 100,000 people to 6.52 murders per 100,000 people in <a href="https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murder-homicide-rate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022.</a> Nonetheless, since 2019 virtually all forms of crime are on a <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-geography-of-crime-in-four-u-s-cities-perceptions-and-reality/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">steep incline</a>, especially in our inner cities. Again, these are self-inflicted wounds as progressive prosecutors refuse to prosecute crime and legislatures across the country continue to pass “no cash bail” laws, effectively creating a revolving door at every jail and courthouse in America.
The parallels between 1970s America and in the America of the 2020s are eerily similar. One can argue, however, that the problems of the 1970s were driven by both world events and poor policy. Today, however, our woes are self-inflicted.
Who will be the next Ronald Reagan to ride into town on a white horse and restore America’s glory?
Jim Nelles is a supply chain consultant based in Chicago, IL. He earned a BA from Northwestern University in Economics and French as well as a Masters in Management from the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Business. After attending college on an NROTC scholarship, Jim served his country as a Naval Officer. He has served as a Chief Operations Officer for multiple companies.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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President Joe Biden told a room full of rich Democrat donors that ailing former President Jimmy Carter had asked him to deliver his eulogy.
Biden, who was first elected to the Senate career in 1972, four years before Carter was elected to the presidency, made the boast at a fundraiser in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Carter, who at 98 is 18 years older than Biden, entered hospice care last month.
“He asked me to do his eulogy,” Biden said, before adding, “Excuse me, I shouldn’t say that,” according to a pool report.
“I spent time with Jimmy Carter, and it’s finally caught up with him,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/14/politics/jimmy-carter-eulogy-biden/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued</a>. “But they found a way to keep him going for a lot longer than they anticipated, because they found a breakthrough.”
Carter announced in August 2015 that he had brain cancer. Ironically, despite Carter’s well-documented animus toward the state of Israel that led him to <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2002/10/carterpalooza-jay-nordlinger-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">write speeches</a> for Yasser Arafat, it was an Israeli-tested drug called Keytruda that <a href="//721AC273-A7FF-4330-99CC-E020902A221E/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">helped</a> Carter battle life-threatening tumors. By December 2015, Carter revealed doctors found no evidence of the four lesions discovered on his brain.
In September 2019, having lived longer than any other president, Carter, just before his 95th birthday, commented on the two leading prospective Democratic candidates for president, saying of the presidency, “I hope there’s an age limit. If I were just 80 years old, if I was 15 years younger, I don’t believe I could undertake the duties I experienced when I was president.”
Carter was answering questions during his annual report at the Carter Center in Atlanta, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/868124c2ad2b410bbcac74418d77468d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>, which noted at the time that Biden and primary opponent Bernie Sanders would turn 80 during their terms if elected.
Carter’s comment came after someone asked if he had thought of running in 2020. He added that the presidency requires a president “to be very flexible with your mind,” adding, “You have to be able to go from one subject to another and concentrate on each one adequately and then put them together in a comprehensive way.”
Although he is still revered by many Democrats, Carter&#8217;s presidency is generally viewed as one of the greatest failures in the history of the American presidency. He oversaw a botched attempt to rescue 52 hostages held for 444 days by Iran; pulled U.S. missiles out of South Korea without consulting the Pentagon; signed the Panama Canal Treaty, thus giving up control by the year 2000; implemented price controls, and presided over an economy that by 1980 featured interest rates at a staggering 21%, inflation at 13.5%, and unemployment at 7%.

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Former Democratic President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-carter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Carter</a> once found classified government documents at his home that he then turned over to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-archives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Archives,</a> according to a new report.
The mishandling of classified documents is a chronic problem at the highest levels of the U.S. government, one person familiar with the matter told the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-classified-documents-president-33df0355c72e9ae8fa4cb6ead13f6521" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>. At least several times a year, documents are located where they are not supposed to be and turned over to the National Archives.
On at least one occasion, Carter found sensitive government papers in his home in Georgia, the person told the AP. It is unclear when the discovery was made or when the documents were handed over.
Coincidentally, Carter signed the Presidential Records Act in 1978, though the law did not take effect until he was out of office and former President Ronald Reagan was in the White House. Before the law, presidential records were generally considered to be the president&#8217;s private property, not the government&#8217;s property, according to the AP.
The report about Carter comes after a series of classified document discoveries has hit one sitting president, one former president, and one former vice president in just the past six months. The FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort, in August to confiscate materials marked classified.
Attorneys for President Joe Biden found classified documents stored in his former office at a think-tank in Washington, D.C., and at the president’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, on four occasions. The FBI found more documents in the president’s Wilmington home when they searched the house on Friday evening.
An attorney for former Vice President Mike Pence <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-classified-documents-found-at-former-vp-mike-pences-home-in-indiana" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> a batch of classified documents at Pence&#8217;s home in Indiana last week, which Pence promptly turned over to the National Archives, according to his team. The former vice president had his residence searched after the revelations about classified documents connected to Biden went public earlier this month.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed two special counsels to take over Justice Department investigations into Trump and Biden.
The bevy of recent discoveries has forced some Republicans and Democrats into an awkward dance about the leaders of their respective parties, both having kept materials marked classified at their private residences.
“They’re trying to attack former President Trump. Biden was chair of the Foreign Relations Committee” in the Senate, Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/23/biden-documents-democrats-concern-00079138" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>. “He should have known better. And they were trying to claim the high ground on this issue when the shoe was on the other foot. And I think it’s a very tough issue for them to have to navigate right now.”
Democrats have maintained that Biden has handled the discovery better than Trump.
“He has done well by cooperating every step of the way, unlike Trump, but he still has documents that I don’t understand why he’d have in his personal possession,” Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-IL) said.

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Less than two years after President Joe Biden entered the White House, the United States has been crippled by record-high inflation and an energy crisis that has placed the economy in a functional recession. When he entered office, <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/273418/unadjusted-monthly-inflation-rate-in-the-us/">inflation</a> was 1.4% — a metric that has since sextupled to 8.5%.
The situation will sound awfully familiar to those who were alive four decades ago. President Jimmy Carter ascended to the White House when <a href="https://www.inflation.eu/en/inflation-rates/united-states/historic-inflation/cpi-inflation-united-states-1977.aspx">inflation</a> was 5.2%. When he left four years later, <a href="https://cpiinflationcalculator.com/1981-cpi-inflation-united-states/">inflation</a> reached 11.8% after <a href="https://inflationdata.com/articles/inflation-cpi-consumer-price-index-1980-1989/">approaching</a> as much as 14.8% in early 1980. 
Of course, the reason Carter ultimately left the Oval Office was the sweeping electoral victory of President Ronald Reagan. As the Great Communicator articulated during his acceptance <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-accepting-the-presidential-nomination-the-republican-national-convention-detroit">speech</a> at the 1980 Republican National Convention, Carter had cooked up “a new and altogether indigestible economic stew” — the ingredients being “one part inflation, one part high unemployment, one part recession, one part runaway taxes, one part deficit spending and seasoned by an energy crisis.”
Indeed, Carter responded to the 1979 energy crisis by slashing dependence on oil and instead <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carter-crisis/">focusing</a> on renewable sources — even pushing the goal of 20% nationwide solar power by the year 2000. Today, Biden is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pete-buttigieg-tells-americans-how-they-can-channel-their-pain-at-the-pump">addressing</a> fallout from the Russian invasion of Ukraine by pushing the goal of 50% electric vehicle adoption by 2030 — months after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/peter-doocy-asks-for-a-straight-answer-on-keystone-gets-the-runaround-from-jen-psaki">nixed</a> expansions to the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Incompetence is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, a characteristic that Carter and Biden share. Yet both administrations somehow blamed the American people for their own failures — a phenomenon that Reagan noticed.
“Ours are not problems of abstract economic theory,” he explained. “Those are problems of flesh and blood; problems that cause pain and destroy the moral fiber of real people who should not suffer the further indignity of being told by the government that it is all somehow their fault. We do not have inflation because — as Mr. Carter says — we have lived too well.”
Such examples from the Biden administration are manifold. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/buttigieg-supply-chain-clog-happening-in-part-because-biden-has-successfully-guided-this-economy">pinned</a> supply chain bottlenecks on surging consumer demand, and former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jen-psaki-on-supply-chain-shortages-impacting-u-s-the-tragedy-of-the-treadmill-thats-delayed">mocked</a> Americans facing these issues by quipping about the “tragedy of the treadmill that’s delayed.”
Both administrations, however, had the audacity to increase spending even as inflation gripped the economy. Biden has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-signs-740-billion-inflation-reduction-act">signed</a> into law a not-so-aptly-named bill called the <a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/inflation_reduction_act_one_page_summary.pdf">Inflation Reduction Act</a>, which posits that spending $740 billion and doubling the size of the IRS will help Americans more comfortably shoulder the burden of higher prices.
“The head of a government which has utterly refused to live within its means … dares to point the finger of blame at business and labor, both of which have been engaged in a losing struggle just trying to stay even,” Reagan said. “High taxes, we are told, are somehow good for us, as if, when government spends our money it isn&#8217;t inflationary, but when we spend it, it is.”
During his <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-accepting-the-presidential-nomination-the-republican-national-convention-dallas">speech</a> at the 1984 Republican National Convention, Reagan looked back on the first four years of his administration and warned the American people that if Democrats were permitted to regain power, they would once again implement a foolish economic agenda. Though the America of four decades ago had yet to witness so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion emerge as a governance philosophy, Reagan observed that blowout spending was conducted “in the name of compassion” as a “deliberate part of their official economic policy, needed, they said, to maintain prosperity.”
Likewise, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen entered her current post on a <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0003">vow</a> to battle the “crisis of systemic racism” in the economy. “Economics isn’t just something you find in a textbook,” she told her staff at the dawn of the Biden administration. “Nor is it simply a collection of theories. Indeed, the reason I went from academia to government is because I believe economic policy can be a potent tool to improve society.”
She also promised that any potential inflation “spurt” from Biden’s policies would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/despite-skyrocketing-inflation-janet-yellen-will-keep-pushing-for-biden-spending-agenda">fade</a> away by 2022. When that promise failed to materialize, she had nothing better to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/janet-yellen-admits-she-was-wrong-about-inflation-being-small-risk">offer</a> than a meek “I was wrong.”
In the 2020s, Americans carry smartphones and enjoy a somewhat less-elevated threat of nuclear war — yet the economically-illiterate philosophies of the 1970s are as pervasive as ever. There remains a holier-than-thou ruling class that spends your money under the facade of kindness and inclusivity — then sticks you, your children, and your grandchildren with the bill.

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Tuesday evening, CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten had a pretty pointed description of how Americans feel about President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s job performance in the Oval Office as well as the state of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/economy">economy</a> — in a word, it&#8217;s &#8220;awful.&#8221;
CNN&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anderson-cooper">Anderson Cooper</a> interviewed Enten and asked him to explain recent data from the University of Michigan that measured consumer sentiment.
&#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s awful and how people feel about it is even worse,&#8221; Enten responded. &#8220;You know you look at the consumer sentiment right now, and what do you see? This is the worst consumer sentiment ever measured by the University of Michigan going all the way back since 1952.&#8221;
&#8220;Wow,&#8221; Anderson replied.
&#8220;Even if you double my age, that doesn&#8217;t get you back to 1952. And while, I&#8217;m young I&#8217;m not that young, right?&#8221; Enten quipped.
The CNN journalist also observed that inflation had been a significant obstacle to previous presidents&#8217; agendas.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t have to remind you that inflation got Jimmy Carter,&#8221; Enten continued. &#8220;It killed that presidency.&#8221;
&#8220;And in terms of why are consumers feeling this bad?&#8221; the senior analyst continued. &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s pretty clear why they&#8217;re feeling this bad and that is because the Consumer Price Index is the worst it&#8217;s ever been in a midterm cycle since &#8217;74; It&#8217;s the worst it&#8217;s been in any presidential cycle or midterm cycle since 1980. So, it&#8217;s not much of a surprise. You can see it, it&#8217;s literally off the charts on the table on your screen.&#8221;
On Friday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-reaches-8-6-setting-new-four-decade-high">reported</a> that the &#8220;Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 8.6% between May 2021 and May 2022, meaning that inflation surpassed record highs.&#8221;
Anderson then asked Enten, &#8220;And how does President Biden&#8217;s performance rate?&#8221;
&#8220;Awful, I mean,&#8221; Enten began to say.
&#8220;I knew that was the answer,&#8221; Anderson interjected with a laugh.
&#8220;But the answer is awful, I mean you know, I&#8217;ll compare it to Carter at this point in his presidency,&#8221; Enten continued. &#8220;Right? Look at the disapproval rating Joe Biden has in inflation right now. It&#8217;s over 70%. Carter — Carter was not even there at this point in mid-1978. When you&#8217;re doing worse than Jimmy Carter is doing in the minds of Americans on inflation, you know that they&#8217;re holding you responsible for the conditions that are currently on the ground that are hurting Americans in their pocketbooks.&#8221;
The segment can be seen here:
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Bridgewater Associates co-CIO Bob Prince said on Tuesday he believes the economy is “on the cusp of” stagflation during an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The term “stagflation” refers to sluggish economic growth coupled with high inflation — and is especially characteristic of the economy of the late 1970s, in which an oil shock that occurred under the leadership of President Jimmy Carter induced a recession amid rising price levels.
When asked by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02d1R8ZOJ7g">Bloomberg TV</a> if he believes stagflation will hit the United States, Prince responded “we’re on the cusp of it” — and argued that the bond market has not properly recognized the threat. After being pressed on the timing of the stagflation, Prince appeared to avoid making a prediction.
&#8220;The markets are under-discounting the inflation picture,” Prince explained during the interview. “The sustainability, the self-reinforcing of the inflation is not discounted. The degree of tightening over time is not discounted.”
However, Prince said that the banking system has the most “low-risk asset portfolio in ages” because newly-printed money led to higher deposits, which banks used for stable investments such as Treasury bonds.
“Even if the Fed tightens, the banking system can sustain the flow of credit into the economy, and household balance sheets are much better than they’ve been in decades,” Prince remarked.
In an effort to curb inflation, the Fed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fed-jacks-key-rate-up-half-point-as-inflation-surges">increased interest rates</a> by a half-point earlier this month — which marked the largest rate hike since May 2000 and followed a quarter-point increase from near-zero levels two months ago.
Alongside Prince, other investors — including Pershing Square Capital Management CEO Bill Ackman — are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-hedge-fund-manager-sees-two-ways-out-of-soaring-inflation-and-neither-one-is-pretty">wary</a> about soaring inflation. “If the Fed doesn’t do its job, the market will do the Fed’s job, and that is what is happening now,” Ackman argued on Tuesday.
“The only way to stop today’s raging inflation is with aggressive monetary tightening or with a collapse in the economy,” Ackman continued. “There is no prospect for a material reduction in inflation unless the Fed aggressively raises rates, or the stock market crashes, catalyzing an economic collapse and demand destruction.”
Though a stock market crash is by no means desirable, an aggressive rate hike would increase the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-federal-reserve-just-raised-interest-rates-how-will-it-impact-your-family">cost of borrowing money</a> — likely slowing economic activity as a result.
Ackman condemned “various current and former Fed members” refraining from an aggressive stance on inflation over the past few days. Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic affirmed on Tuesday, for example, that the central bank should <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fed-cant-be-reckless-in-the-way-it-pushes-up-interest-rates-bostic-says-11653410349">exercise caution</a> while raising rates.
“The Fed has already lost credibility for its misread and late pivot on inflation,” Ackman asserted. “Current Fed policy and guidance are setting us up for double-digit sustained inflation that can only be forestalled by a market collapse or a massive increase in rates.”
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-sounds-off-on-whether-he-thinks-another-recession-is-inevitable">portraying optimism</a> about the state of the economy. During a press conference earlier this week, a reporter pressed Biden on “record-high inflation” and “enormously high gas prices” in the United States.
“Should Americans be prepared for a recession? In your view, is a recession in the United States inevitable?” the reporter asked. Biden replied “no” before listing gains in employment and a handful of large foreign projects in the United States, among other phenomena.

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Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis slammed Democrat President Joe Biden in an interview this week, saying that former President Jimmy Carter, who is widely considered to be one of the worst presidents in modern history, was more successful than Biden.
DeSantis made the remarks while speaking about how the media and Democrats are trying to divide Republicans, including pitting him against former President Donald Trump, and distract from Biden&#8217;s failures in office.
&#8220;They did everything they could to get Biden elected, the guy who campaigned from his basement,&#8221; DeSantis <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-trump-republicans-total-bunk">said</a>. &#8220;They never asked any questions about that. Well, now he gets in. And he had a disastrous first year as president said [sic] the worst first year president of any president since the 1800s. People compare him to Jimmy Carter. Carter was much more successful his first year than Biden has been.&#8221;
&#8220;So they know that, they know the Democrats are in for a shellacking in 2022,&#8221; DeSantis continued. &#8220;So they&#8217;re trying to change the topic, and they&#8217;re trying to drive dissension among Republicans. And so my message to people is, don&#8217;t take that bait. Understand what they&#8217;re trying to do. We need to be united and say we don&#8217;t like what the Biden administration&#8217;s doing. We offer a better course in Florida. I think other Republican states are offering a better vision in their states as well. And let&#8217;s go into ‘22 with a full head of steam with everybody united on the same team.&#8221;
Trump also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-issues-statement-over-reports-that-he-has-a-problem-with-governor-ron-desantis">dismissed</a> claims that he has a problem with DeSantis during a Fox News interview last month.
Trump made the remarks during an interview with Sean Hannity in response to a recent report from The New York Times, which claimed that Trump had a “long-stewing resentment” toward DeSantis because, according to The Times, DeSantis “has been acting far less like an acolyte and more like a future competitor.”
Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2022/01/14/desantis-uses-conservative-lifeline-as-trump-sours-on-him-1405741">added</a> the following background information:
<blockquote>Many conservative media stars, most of whom have long been some of Trump’s most vocal supporters, have been hyping DeSantis in recent months for the governor’s rejection of Covid-related mandates and constant hammering of President Joe Biden. But the support has increased in intensity in recent weeks, a spike easily noticeable on social media and podcasts throughout the conservative media ecosystem. That support is key in helping DeSantis further expand his footprint with influencers in Republican primary politics ahead of his 2022 reelection and as he weighs a 2024 White House bid.</blockquote>
Hannity said that he was recently informed that DeSantis indicated that there was not “any conflict or bickering” between the two and that it was “total BS” manufactured by the media.
“Is he right?” Hannity asked.
“Well, he is right,” Trump responded. “I get along great with Ron. Ron was very good on the Mueller hoax. He was right up front along with Jim Jordan, and all of the rest of them, they were fantastic. The Republicans really stuck together. And it was a great thing. And Ron was one of them. And Ron wanted to run and I endorsed him. And that helped him greatly.”
“And he went on and he’s done a really terrific job in Florida, and I think you know, Ron has been very good,” Trump continued. “He’s been a friend of mine for a long time. It’s totally fake news. I think Ron said last week, he said it very publicly, he says the press is never going to get in the middle of my friendship with Donald Trump, we’re not going to do that stuff. And he said it very strongly, I thought it was very interesting, actually. And very nice. But he said that, and I agree with him on that 100%. No, I have a very good relationship with Ron and intend to have it for a long time.”

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