As befits an enthusiastic Trump toady, Dick Morris continued his partisan work by spending a lot of Newsmax columns and TV hits attacking President Biden and the Democrats throughout the spring, just as he did at the start of the year:
- Dick Morris to Newsmax: Trump, Voters Pulling Away From Biden
- Dick Morris to Newsmax: Fundraiser Optics Bad for Biden
- Dick Morris to Newsmax: Dem Hail Mary on Trump ‘Very Likely to Backfire’
- Dick Morris to Newsmax: Democrat Base Is Transforming
- Dick Morris to Newsmax: Biden Not ‘In Sync’ With Voters
- Dick Morris to Newsmax: ‘Biden’s Candidacy Bleeding to Death’
Just as he does long-form Trump-fluffing, Morris served up some long-form Biden-bashing as well. A March 12 column hyped negative polling for Biden and tried to spin negative polling for Trump on abortion:
Blacks report that the president’s policies have hurt more than they have helped by 17-21 while they say that Trump’s have helped more than they hurt by 26-24.
With negative margins like these, it’s no wonder that Biden is failing to bring in his base to vote for him.
Trump’s campaign is scrambling to dull the negative impact of the reversal of Roe v. Wade 410 U.S. 113, (1973), but overall women believe that Trump’s policies — unlike Biden’s —have helped them more than they hurt.
Democrats hope that Trump’s historic problems with women voters will rescue them. But women report that Biden has hurt more than he has helped by 18-40 while they say that Trump has helped more than he has hurt by 39-26.
No respite there for Biden.
Morris went further on the attack in a May 13 column:
Most U.S. commanders in chief who fail, fall victim to events and circumstances. But President Joe Biden is one of the few failures who succumbed to disasters of his own making.
A CNN survey of this fall has found that 55% of all voters rate Donald Trump’s presidency as a success while only 39% say that about Biden’s tenure in office.
By contrast, 61% see Biden’s presidency as a failure and only 39% rate it as a success.
[…]Domestically, running a deficit of $3 trillion the year after COVID-19 struck and when the economy was still soaking up the three trillion dollar deficit from Trump’s last year in office, has to rank as a major blunder.
It stretched the economy to the limit and created a demand for goods and services out of all proportion to available supply.
Labor costs soared and so much money was chasing so few products that huge inflation was the inevitable result.
With supply chains ravaged by the almost total cessation of economic activity during the height of the epidemic, there was no way the economy could recover in time to produce the goods and services the extra deficit demanded.
With no money to soak up the demand, inflation skyrocketed.
There was no need for these deficits.
Trump’s last budget had activated all the stimulus the economy could handle.
All Biden’s deficits did was to race the motor and cause inflation.
And so, inflation which had been absent from the economy for 40 years returned to haunt it and has not abated since.
In fact, non-right-wing economists argue that Biden’s stimulus plan saved the economy, even if it helped to boost inflation (which cannot be solely blamed on the stimulus). The rest of Morris’ column is merely a recitation of right-wing anti-Biden talking points.
Morris spent a May 15 column complaining that that polls showing Biden doing well are “too Democratic” and included likely voters among registered voters: “Are pollsters desperate to make Biden look competitive enough to run?”