To say that Democrats are in a panic over Biden’s pathetic poll numbers, they must regret keeping Joe Biden as their champion. The gap between the two candidates looks like the race is too big to rig. It will be too hard to convince the voters of a clean election should Joe Biden prevail in a race where Biden has nothing going for him. He has the dementia vote going for him and nothing else.
The following polls show just how dire the election has become:
- NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist: A majority of independent voters believe Biden is a greater threat to democracy than Trump.
- ABC News/Ipsos: Trump is in a dead heat with Biden among suburban women.
- USA Today/Suffolk University: Among Hispanics, Trump leads Biden by five points (39-34 percent).
- Wall Street Journal: 30 percent of black men and 11 percent of black women intend to vote for Trump.
- New York Times: Trump and Biden are essentially tied among 18-to-29-year-olds.
CNN’s Van Jones said:
“It should be a wake-up call. Young people are upset. And it’s not just the situation in Gaza — the economic prospects for young people are miserable.”
“We just do not have a pathway for young people to be able to pay off their student debt, get a house. I think that we’re not yet feeling, hearing a full-throated approach to the young people [from Biden]. There’s a symbolic piece around student loans. That’s not going to be enough for Joe Biden.”
Fareed Zakaria, a CNN anchor and Biden favorite, implored Biden to be “honest about reality” due to voter sentiment and Trump’s appeal to voters:
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELWhen the ’24 race began to take shape, I thought Pres. Biden had a strong pitch to voters: a rebounding economy and a return to normalcy after the chaos of Covid & Trump.
Things haven’t played out that way.
My take: pic.twitter.com/WAwifAZjfB
— Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) May 12, 2024
Alex Shephard of The New Republic reported:
Polling “is rightly causing panic among Democrats. Voters know Joe Biden—and they’ve decided that they don’t think he’s capable of doing the job of president for a second term.”
“It’s hard to see how Biden can turn around this perception of him, however. He will not be any younger on Election Day, and there’s not a lot he can do to combat concerns about his age.”
Meanwhile, Biden does not believe the negative surveys are accurate, and neither do many of his advisers, according to people familiar with the president’s thinking, Axios reported. Biden flouts the warnings and accuses his allies of allegedly not reporting positive national polls, such as the recent PBS/Marist poll.
“National polls basically have us registered voters up by four, likely voters we’re up by more,” Biden told donors last week.
Swing state polling is a greater indicator of presidential campaign success than national polling. Numerous swing state polls show Trump dominating Biden. The latest negative Times poll, published on Monday, showed Trump gained eight percentage points among 2020 swing state voters who cast ballots for Biden. It also showed a majority of swing state voters said there is “not really any chance” they would cast a vote for Biden.
The Biden campaign continues to defend its strategy and claims Biden’s far-left policies of open borders and Bidenomics are popular ideas. “President Biden is running on a popular agenda for all Americans and to finish the job on the issues that American people demand action on,” Biden campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz said.
Biden campaign pollsters also gloss over the negative polling trends for the president.
“This campaign is not arguing for the status quo,” Biden campaign pollster Molly Murphy asserted. “The most important piece is acknowledging that people are still feeling frustrated and behind, and that the problems and the struggles that people are facing were not caused by this president and in fact have been alleviated” by him.
“The only consistency in recent public polls is inconsistency,” Geoff Garin, a second Biden campaign pollster argued.
