WASHINGTON DC, July 19 — Veteran newsman Christopher Bedford has served as a senior editor at The Federalist, senior editor at The Daily Caller and editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller News Foundation. He is the vice chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom. And, Bedford is the author of The Art of the Donald, a book his publisher says provides “insight into navigating life the Trump way.” Most recently, he joined Rebecca Weber, CEO of the Association of Mature American Citizens, for an interview on her Better For America podcast.
A recent article Bedford penned discusses the emerging division within the Democrat party. Weber said it was “a great piece on the Democratic Party’s civil war.” In that piece, Bedford explained, it put “the civil war” on full display when Representative Jamal Bowman [D-NY] “was beaten in a Democratic primary and taken down. He’s the first person in the squad, who’s been defeated so far. Now this is a whole group of people who showed up in the Democratic Party in 2018, basically it was a symptom of Trump derangement syndrome. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is obviously the leader. Jamal Bowman came in in 2020. And the policies that they pushed on the Democratic Party — abolish ICE, abolish the police, et cetera. They peer pressured and brought a lot of grassroot pressure and a lot of intimidation towards Democrat leadership. The results politically have been disastrous. I mean, at this point, immigration is a problem as far as north of Chicago and Montana and Boston, Washington, DC. It’s something that’s become an albatross for Democrats. The same thing with crime, which while they’ve tried to blame Republicans, it just simply isn’t working. And the squad stepped over their boundaries after the October 7th attack in Israel, where Bowman, for example, called the mass murders and mass rapes propaganda. He’s since apologized for that, but finally Democrats felt like they had the moral high ground to really take out one of these guys who’s been a problem for them. It became the most expensive primary in House of Representatives history. I think about 25 million dollars was spent from outside groups like the American Israel PAC as well as groups that were more supportive of the squad. And so they knocked out Bowman. But one of the things that stood out for me was that Hillary Clinton, for example, and Andrew Cuomo came off the sidelines to go against Bowman. Now you start to see the knives come out. And if Joe Biden loses this reelection, I think you’ll see a Democrat Civil War.”
But, according to Bedford, in order for Biden to win, the Democrats will have to rig the system in some way and he thinks, indeed, “they’re already actively working to rig the system. They’re doing all the same things that they did in 2020. My wife’s an investigative editor at the Washington Examiner, and she’s currently working on a series on all of the different ways that the Democrats are working and their friends are working to sort of stack the deck as strongly as they can in favor of Joe Biden. I mean, you combine that with a lot of the indifference of the American people, combine that with the number of different groups that are getting large payouts or getting taken care of by Democrat administrations, you combine that with the dislike that some people have, a lot of people have, it seems, for Donald Trump, and this is still an election that could absolutely be in the air. I mean, to look at the way that Joe Biden acts in public and in general, and to look at the way that Donald Trump acts, you would assume that this debate would be an absolute blowout. That Trump was completely correct to say, I’ll agree to whatever silly rules you want, Biden camp, just get on that stage and debate me. I think that was probably the right move, but whether it’s at the State of the Union, or in the debates, even in 2020, Joe Biden has shown that he is capable of performing when it counts. He’ll wander off in a couple-of-day conferences. He’ll obviously lose track during concerts and different things like that. Sometimes he can mumble during his press conferences. But time and time again, he’s done well at the moments when it counts. So I would still count him as a formidable opponent.”
John Grimaldi served on the first non-partisan communications department in the New York State Assembly and is a founding member of the Board of Directors of Priva Technologies, Inc. He has served for more than thirty years as a Trustee of Daytop Village Foundation, which oversees a worldwide drug rehabilitation network.