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TIDE TURNING ON JOE: NYT Opinion Asks 'Why is Joe Biden So Unpopular?'

posted by Hannity Staff - 9.11.23

The memo has gone out —the left is turning on Joe Biden.

On Saturday, New York Times contributor Ross Douthat wrote an opinion piece entitled Why is Joe Biden so Unpopular? —and conservative voices are pointing to the article as proof that the Left is turning on Joe Biden.

From The New York Times:

By itself, this is no great wonder: His two predecessors were also unpopular at this stage of their presidencies, also endangered in their re-election bids.

But with Trump and Barack Obama, there were reasonably simple explanations. For Obama, it was the unemployment rate, 9.1 percent in September 2011, and the bruising battles over Obamacare. For Trump, it was the fact that he had never been popular, making bad approval ratings his presidency’s natural default.

For Biden, though, there was a normal honeymoon, months of reasonably high approval ratings that ended only with the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. And since then, it’s been hard to distill a singular explanation for what’s kept his numbers lousy.

Popular conservative X accounts were quick to point out that this is an example of the liberal media taking aim at a frail, weak-polling Biden.