Ex-conservative blasts media for not covering the threat to democracy — again

Columnist Jennifer Rubin, who describes herself as an ex-conservative, blasted the media on Sunday, saying that they're ignoring the threat to democracy that is coming again in the election.

At issue is the recent polling showing that President Joe Biden's poll numbers were down as he kicks off his 2024 campaign. Trump announced his campaign on Nov. 16, 2022. It brought the media together to endless conversations about Biden stepping out of the race. There's no evidence of it, and it isn't a reality, but the media still reported it.

"Consider the obsessive coverage of a single New York Times-Siena College polla full year before the election (touting four-times indicted former president Donald Trump as leading in five of six swing states, although only one was outside the poll’s margin of error). The Times built its political coverage around it for days. Virtually every cable news show featured it," Rubin complained, noting she's an MSNBC contributor. "Other outlets focused on it. Roundtables gathered to discuss it. The coverage assumed the poll to be gospel — accurate, productive, important — and then used it as evidence that Biden is toast. (A majority of national polls, by the way, show Biden tied with or slightly ahead of Trump)."

Meanwhile, she explained, the poll is "utterly meaningless" a year out from an election. She compared it to former President Barack Obama and where he stood in 2011. Meanwhile, she cited a "highly reputable Pennsylvania poll" showing Biden doing well among swing states. Where a GOP poll puts Biden tied in Nevada with Trump, not losing by 10 points. In Wisconsin, Trump leads by two points.