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Biden’s Polling Crisis Result of Economic Stress
“In short, many households don’t just feel worse off; they are worse off” admitted Bloomberg’s opinion editors last week.
“Trump Takes 2024 Lead as Biden Approval Hits New Low, WSJ Poll Finds,” reported Aaron Zitner and Alex Leary for the Wall Street Journal last week.
It was the cap on a run of bad polling for President Joe Biden, amidst a reelection campaign already in full swing. Despite months of positive media coverage touting the objective excellence of Bidenomics, concerns about the economy persist.
“Unhappiness with Biden’s performance is pervasive, with economic pessimism weighing him down,” noted Zitner and Leary for the WSJ. “President Biden’s political standing is at its weakest point of his presidency, a new Wall Street Journal Poll finds, with voters giving him his lowest job-performance marks and favoring Donald Trump for the first time in a head-to-head test of the likely 2024 presidential matchup.”
There was worse news to come.
“Biden lags behind Trump by 4 percentage points, 47% to 43%, on a hypothetical ballot with only those two candidates,” revealed Zitner and Leary. “Trump’s lead expands to 6 points, 37% to 31%, when five potential third-party and independent candidates are added to the mix.”