While reviewing President Biden’s poll numbers this week, pollster Nate Silver suggested it may be time to talk about Joe dropping out of the race; “It’s more than fair to ask,” Silver said on X.
“Biden just hit a new all-time low in approval (37.4%),” the data analyst and founder of FiveThirtyEight wrote on X, referencing his organization’s latest average of the president’s job approval numbers.
“Dropping out would be a big risk,” Silver argued. “But there’s some threshold below which continuing to run is a bigger risk.”
“Are we there yet? I don’t know,” the polling guru acknowledged. “But it’s more than fair to ask.”
What's clearer IMO is that Democrats would have been better served if Biden had decided a year ago not to seek a second term, which would have allowed them to have some semblance of a primary process and give voters a say among the many popular Democrats across the country.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) June 10, 2024
“What’s clearer [in my opinion] is that Democrats would have been better served if Biden had decided a year ago not to seek a second term, which would have allowed them to have some semblance of a primary process and give voters a say among the many popular Democrats across the country,” Silver added.
What's clearer IMO is that Democrats would have been better served if Biden had decided a year ago not to seek a second term, which would have allowed them to have some semblance of a primary process and give voters a say among the many popular Democrats across the country.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) June 10, 2024
Silver stresses that Biden is in “MUCH worse shape” than he was in 2020 heading into November.
More over at The New York Post:
Top pollster suggests it may be time for Biden to drop out of 2024 presidential race as approval rating hits ‘all-time low’ https://t.co/NqAOCnlclw pic.twitter.com/S7OamdARYu
— New York Post (@nypost) June 11, 2024