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‘Fox & Friends’ host Steve Doocy and his son, Peter Doocy, a Fox News White House correspondent, weigh in on President Biden’s performance thus far and discuss their Christmas traditions on ‘Fox & Friends Weekend.’<\/p>\n
Endorsements from former President Obama<\/u> and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn in reliably blue Columbia, South Carolina<\/u>,<\/u> were not enough to push the city\u2019s Democratic mayoral candidate over the finish line. <\/p>\n
Republican Daniel Rickenmann, a businessman and Columbia city council member, defeated<\/u> Democrat Tameika Isaac Devine 52% to 48% on Tuesday night in Columbia, which sits in a county that President Biden carried<\/u> by almost 40 points in 2020.<\/p>\n
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\n Former President Barack Obama speaks during the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov. 8, 2021. Obama, according<\/u> to Washington Free Beacon, released an audio message in support of Devine. The former president carried the city\u2019s county by 29 points in 2008 and 33 points in 2012.<\/p>\n Clyburn, one of the most prominent Democrats in both the South and the Black community, who many believe saved President Biden\u2019s flailing 2020 campaign with his endorsement, also endorsed Devine.<\/p>\n \n House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, conduct a news conference at the Capitol on Nov. 5, 2021. (Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)\n <\/p>\n Columbia has been so reliably blue over the last several years that Republicans didn\u2019t put forth a challenger to Rickenmann\u2019s Democratic predecessor, Mayor Stephen Benjamin.<\/p>\n Republicans are likening Rickenmann\u2019s victory to the GOP\u2019s successful push in Virginia<\/u> weeks ago that elected businessman Glenn Youngkin as the commonwealth\u2019s next governor despite Virginians voting reliably blue for several cycles.<\/p>\n Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, celebrated Rickenmann\u2019s victory as part of a “red wave.”<\/p>\n The Democrat losses in South Carolina and Virginia come as Biden’s poll numbers continue to slump and a USA Today\/Suffolk University poll earlier this week painted a grim picture of the party’s chances in the 2022 midterms.<\/p>\n The survey, which was taken after the Virginia elections but before House Democrats passed the popular infrastructure bill shortly after, showed Biden with nearly rock-bottom approval ratings, Vice President Kamala Harris with numbers that are even worse, and Democrats trailing by a wide margin on the generic congressional ballot. <\/p>\n
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