Biden's liabilities are obvious — but he may have a 2024 trick up his sleeve
Several recent polls have shown Biden losing to Trump if the 2024 election were held today.
By Byron York
| 4 hours ago
MEDIA FLOOD BIDEN WITH ADVICE. Several recent polls have shown President Joe Biden losing to former President Donald Trump if the 2024 election were held today. RealClearPolitics's Tom Bevan noted Thursday that five of six national polls released in the previous 72 hours had Trump beating Biden. The former president was up by 4 points in a new Fox News poll, 2 points in polls by Yahoo News and Quinnipiac, and 1 point in polls by Economist-YouGov and Morning Consult.
That polling comes on top of a New York Times survey that shook the Democratic Party to its core: "Trump leads in 5 critical states as voters blast Biden, Times/Siena Poll Finds." And lest anyone think the New York Times polling was an outlier, a Bloomberg poll quickly followed showing Trump ahead of Biden in six key states. New York magazine summed it up this way: "2024 Polls Agree: Trump has a significant Lead Over Biden."
Collectively, the polls led to panic in several corners of the Democratic world — officeholders, candidates, donors, strategists, hangers-on, and pundits. And in the media, it has led to a spate of how-Biden-can-still-win pieces offering the president and Democrats hope. From Politico came "Here's how Biden can turn it around." From the New York Times came a bunch of articles: "What can Biden do?" and "Why Biden is Behind, and how he could come back" and "The Bush-Obama blueprint that gives Biden hope for '24." (In addition to its depressing-for-Democrats poll, the New York Times is perhaps the leading source of editorial encouragement for the president.) For its part, the Washington Post's commentary has been a bit more downbeat, but it did publish the classic headline, "Biden's economy is great everywhere except in the polls."
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