President Biden is trailing Donald J. Trump in five of the six most important battleground states one year before the 2024 election, suffering from enormous doubts about his age and deep dissatisfaction over his handling of the economy and a host of other issues, new polls by The New York Times and Siena College have found.
The results show Mr. Biden losing to Mr. Trump, his likeliest Republican rival, by margins of three to 10 percentage points among registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania. Mr. Biden is ahead only in Wisconsin, by two percentage points, the poll found.
A CBS poll doesn't exactly paint a rosy picture for Biden either.
Brutal stuff for Biden in the new CBS poll. Voters believe they'd be better off financially, and the world would be less volatile, if Trump returns to power: pic.twitter.com/oNtgdeQAr1
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) November 5, 2023
As such, you're seeing prominent Biden supporters making dignified pleas to the White House's current occupant.
It's time.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 5, 2023
President Biden has served our country well. I'm confident he'll do so for the next year.
But it's time for an act of personal sacrifice and public spirit.
It's time to pass the torch to the next generation.
It's time for Biden to announce he won't run in 2024.
It's very late to change horses; a lot will happen in the next year that no one can predict & Biden's team says his resolve to run is firm.
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) November 5, 2023
He's defied CW before but this will send tremors of doubt thru the party--not "bed-wetting," but legitimate concern. https://t.co/g6zeWF0T87
Only @JoeBiden can make this decision. If he continues to run, he will be the nominee of the Democratic Party. What he needs to decide is whether that is wise; whether it's in HIS best interest or the country's?
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) November 5, 2023
Now you understand why the likes of CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, etc. have gone "balls to the wall" with coverage of Trump's legal woes. The hope was to divert attention away from the abject failure that has been the Biden administration. But when regular, middle class Americans are struggling to afford basic necessities, they're memories aren't so short that they don't recall how things were under Trump. It's hard to deny that before the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020 that Trump was likely to be reelected on the strength of a robust economy. While Trump's popularity numbers are still abysmally low, the fact he's showing this kind electoral prowess a year out is a clear indictment of Biden's job performance.
I have said numerous times in this space as well as on my radio show that Biden will not make it to a 2024 campaign. Deep unpopularity aside, he hasn't been physically or mentally up for the job of POTUS since day one. Now you're gonna throw the grind of a presidential run on top of that? To put it mildly, I'm skeptical.
So who would take Biden's place as the Dem candidate in '24? Well, Congressman Dean Phillips (D-MN) has already declared a challenge to Biden for the nomination, but the guy has no name recognition and even less fundraising prowess.
But there is one high profile elected official in particular who for some time has been positioning himself for a run: Gov. Greaseball Gavin Newson. But as Erick Erickson explains, Newsom's wacko left Cali politics just wouldn't play among a mainstream electorate.
While Dems' pleas for Biden to step aside are definitely prudent, I'm getting a sense they haven't given serious thought to the alternatives. If indeed the "next generation of leaders" is someone in the ilk of Newsom, I'm not certain that is going to play well in what they sneerily refer to as "flyover land."
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