You can't really go by polls these days as much as you used to. Why? Because most people use cell phones and don't answer unknown numbers. I live in NY and not once have been contacted (that I know of) by Siena. No one I know has either.
Ugh...Stefanik.....a Trump worshipper. She's a loon.
From 5 Apr 2024 both Trump and Biden have lost support. Trump falling from 47.2% down to 44.5% and Biden falling from 46.5% down to 44.2% in the two-candidate race.
I keep hearing that from democrats, Biden supporters. Probably true as I believe the economy is like the weather. No one controls it and like the weather, the economy runs in cycles. If presidents and governments could control the economy, we’d have all ups, all good times, no bad times or downs. But so many previous presidents have taken credit for a good economy, that they shout from the highest mountain tops that it was their policies that produced the good economy. Naturally, since the people always hear that, they’re going to blame the present president. That comes with the job. Biden is going to get the blame and if the economy turns around during his watch, he’ll bask in the credit.Most people can also see for themselves that the Earth is flat and not round.
The fact is that inflation after Covid was a global phenomenon, and America under Biden has managed it better than any other country on the planet.
The US economy is doing way better than the rest of the rich world
The US is growing faster and slowing inflation quicker than many other wealthy countries, even though Americans are still hurting from high prices.www.businessinsider.com
OK great. So you agree that the economy is doing OK right now. So I am not sure that we are in such desperate straits as to need to put a rapist in the White House to fix it.
Not in 2016. Trump won the nomination with a bit over 35% of the GOP vote. He had the largest faction within the GOP, to be sure. He kept winning primary after primary with his 35% in a 14 or 15 candidate field. I don’t call losing by 7 plus million votes a narrow loss in 2020. It wasn’t a landslide and it wasn’t a real close election either. There was really little doubt that Biden would win. Biden never trailed Trump in the polls. Biden led usually between 5-7 points from start to finish. Unlike Hillary, Biden received a majority of the 51.3% to be exact and defeated Trump by close to 5 points.Just so we're clear, Biden can do very little about any of those things. The one thing he actually did do that was helping was the tax credit boost that was signed into law, but the Senate nixed the extension of it after 2022. West Virginians voted for this Democrat in Name Only, and their other senator is a Republican who, like the rest of his party, killed the credit with glee. Voters need to be reminded who they vote for - it takes more than just the president to make an economy work.
Sen. Joe Manchin helped kill the expanded child tax credit. Now, more West Virginia kids are living in poverty.
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Trump trounced on the rest of his Republican field in 2016 and again in 2024, defeated Hillary Clinton, narrowly lost to Biden in 2020, and appears to be headed to victory over him in a rematch. People are confused, angry, and frustrated at a system that is increasingly controlled by corporate interests at the expense of the public interest. Voters will often vote based on their emotions more than their logic, as a means of expressing their satisfaction (or lack of it) with the state of things.
I don't see Biden's polling numbers as a reflection of Biden's performance per se, because if you look at his policies and the legislation that he's gotten over the finish line, it's actually impressive. It's just that it's not helping solve these other problems that voters are having, and frankly, there aren't really any remedies he alone can come up with. But because so much of the 20th Century was about giving the Executive power to play God, voters expect Biden to act like one.
What I agree on means little to nothing. It's how the masses, the voters see these things. They see Biden as an utter failure on both the economy and inflation, rising prices. Biden's president this time around. Not Trump. Usually when a sitting president runs for reelection it is solely a referendum on the sitting president. This time around that solely doesn’t apply. It’s a referendum on both a former and a sitting president. So far, it’s be a bit more of a referendum on Biden than Trump. For either one to win, they need each other. One can’t win without the other being his opponent. Each has too many flaws and liabilities. One the flaws and liabilities are personal, with the other it’s most job related and his age.
Young Democrats loyal to Senator Sanders and angered because he wasn't nominated in 2016 are responsible for the Trump Presidency and the events that followed that Presidency.
The MSM has lost the trust of most Americans.
They’re upset because they don’t have it easy enough.
People have a way of figuring this out themselves. It’s reality to them, they ask the question are they better off today than they were 4 years ago? A question Reagan made popular back in 1980. If one is worst off, it doesn’t matter what the economic indicators say. No set of numbers are going to prove different to them. It’s doesn’t matter if inflation and rising prices are global or national wide or even statewide. What matters to them is their own personal situation, better or worse. If it’s worse, whoever is president will get blamed. That is a fact of politics. That’s where the public perception of Biden’s poor handling of the economy and inflation comes from. No amount of messaging is going to change that.
