Hannity Claims Democrats ‘Cannot Run on, Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?’  

Sean Hannity said President Joe Biden and Democrats will be unable to make the case that Americans are better off in 2024 than they were four years ago.

Biden is seeking a second term and will face former President Donald Trump as congressional Democrats try to retake the House of Representatives and undertake the tall order of holding the Senate.

“They spread fear, hysteria, all things hate Trump, hate Trump 24/7,” Hannity said of Democrats during his opening monologue Thursday on Fox News. “And of course, Democrats will call Republicans racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, transphobic that want dirty air and water. In other words, Democrats are using fear and division to mask what has been a terrible four years under Biden.”

Hannity then invoked an election refrain made famous by Ronald Reagan during a 1980 debate with then-President Jimmy Carter: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”

“I repeat, they cannot run on, ‘Are you better off than you were four years ago?'” Hannity said. “This is all they have left.”

Some quick, back-of-the-napkin math indicates that four years ago, the year was 2020. History buffs may recall that this period in time was marred by a once-in-a-century global pandemic that wound up killing more than one million Americans and torpedoed the economy. Trump’s handling of the country’s pandemic response arguably cost him reelection.

In the early days of the pandemic, Trump sought to downplay the threat posed by Covid-19. In February 2020, he reacted to the news that a handful of Americans had been diagnosed with the virus by saying, “And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”

Trump also repeatedly defied public health guidelines. After Trump held a rally in Tulsa, former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain died of Covid-19. The former president and several others fell ill with the virus after he held an October 2020 ceremony at the White House for Amy Coney Barrett, whom he appointed to the Supreme Court. The former president also touted completely ineffective “treatments” for Covid-19, such as hydroxychloroquine.

Watch above via Fox News.

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