The New York Times has some hard truths to share with President Biden, who is currently behind his opponent Donald Trump in most national polling and battleground polling. Inflation is stubbornly high, the border crisis has become a top issue with American voters, and the Biden Admin keeps telling Americans that everything is fine — it’s the voters who don’t get how good they have it!
The message from The New York Times: wake up, Joe.
From The New York Times:
But here we are entering May, with just six months before the election, and the basic dynamic that inspired the original discussion/freakout is still with us. Biden’s mini-surge was, well, miniature. He’s still slightly behind in national polling, and he still trails Trump in the swing states that won the Electoral College for the Democrats last time — Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The gap is narrow: Depending on your preferred polling average and what you make of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s polling numbers, Biden probably needs to make up just a few points to pull ahead — maybe three points, maybe four. But it’s also quite consistent; since last fall, both candidates are bouncing around within a very narrow range.
The Democratic response to this consistency blends unwarranted confidence with unwarranted fatalism. On the one hand, there’s the belief that Trump’s lead is unsustainable — because he has a ceiling and can’t get past 50 percent (but does that matter in a race with several well-known third-party candidates?), because voters aren’t paying close attention yet (but don’t they already know both of the candidates quite well?), because polls don’t matter until after the conventions (in April 2020 Biden led the FiveThirtyEight polling average by about five points; he won the popular vote in the fall by 4.4 percent), because Trump’s trials haven’t yet had their effect (but what if he’s acquitted?).
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The problem with the Biden campaign is that it’s being run as though its candidate were in the first position, as though it were protecting a lead that Biden doesn’t have.
Tough love from the media mob over at the NYT. House Conference Chair Elise Stefanik shared the story on X, saying “Even the Far Left media can’t deny the truth. President Trump is BEATING Joe Biden.”
She’s not wrong.
Even the Far Left media can’t deny the truth. President Trump is BEATING Joe Biden.#Trump2024 #SaveAmerica 🇺🇲 pic.twitter.com/01xGAnM4SK
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) May 2, 2024
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