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Can “Bidenomics” Win in 2024?
For voters concerned about the economy, actions speak louder than words.
On Sunday, the New York Times published a poll that sent chills through the Democratic Party and its environs from Hollywood to Capitol Hill. The poll, showing former President Donald Trump beating incumbent President Joe Biden in 5 out of 6 critical swing states, set off a news cycle of abject terror and doomsaying.
There were calls for President Biden to resign, the usual calls to jail Donald Trump; some raged at the New York Times, and others blamed internecine struggles over Israel/Hamas.
“6 warning signs for Biden in new battleground state poll,” Steven Shepard deconstructed the poll for readers of POLITICO on November 5, 2023.
“The toplines are bad for Biden,” noted Shepard. “What’s buried deeper in the poll might be worse. When a pollster releases new data in six key battleground states, and the incumbent is losing in four of them, it’s hard to narrow down the list of warning signs to just a handful.“
“But the latest results from The New York Times and Siena College, released Sunday to coincide with the one-year-out mark from the 2024 election, paint a dismal picture for President Joe Biden — and a well-defined path back to the White House for the man he defeated three years ago, former President Donald Trump,”…