Another day, another round of bad polling news for President Biden.
The 80-year-old incumbent once again found himself trailing former President Donald Trump in a new batch of swing state polls – released the same day the Biden campaign accused the “expert class” of needlessly exaggerating his chances for re-election.
An Emerson College poll on Thursday found Biden trailing Trump, 77, among likely voters in four of six states expected to be key battlegrounds in next year’s election.
The 45th president currently leads the 46th president in Arizona (46%-44%), Georgia (49%-41%), Nevada (47%-44%) and Pennsylvania (49%-45%).
Biden narrowly leads Trump, 45% to 43%, among likely voters in Michigan, and the party’s two front-runners are tied in Wisconsin with 45% each.
“Biden has generally under-indicated his support in 2020 with voters under 30, while Trump has locked in his support with middle-aged voters,” explained Emerson College Polling executive director Spencer Kimball.
Polls show Donald Trump beating Biden in most of the six battleground states. Emerson College Poll The Biden campaign played down the dismal polling and insisted that the president has consistently outperformed expectations.AFP via Getty Images
“The likelihood of voters under 30 resting for Biden over Trump by eight points in the state’s six elections, 47% to 39%, with 14% undecided. Trump’s base of support rests with general election voters aged 50-64, who back him over Biden by a 13-point margin, 52% to 39%, while likely voters over 65 are evenly split between the two candidates: 46% to 46%. “
The poll also found that 39% of likely Biden voters chose their candidate because they disliked his rival, while only 19% of likely Trump voters said the same. The majority of Republican supporters, 30%, said they would support Trump because they like him.
The results of the Emerson poll largely matched the findings of a New York Times/Siena College poll released over the weekend that sent the Beltway into a frenzy.
Donald Trump often crows about his strong position in the polls.AFP via Getty Images
The poll showed Trump leading Biden in five of six battleground states among registered voters, with only Wisconsin leaning toward the incumbent.
During a press call on Thursday, the Biden campaign played down the polls by pointing to the Democrats’ strong showing in the off-year elections held Tuesday night.
“Time and time again, Biden has exceeded expectations. Happening in 2020, happening in 2022, happening on Tuesday night,” said communications director Michael Tyler.
Joe Biden has been trying to tout “Bidenomics” in recent months, but public opinion polls show his approval of the economy is underwater with voters. AFP via Getty Images
“You see days, weeks, months of uncertain predictions about how bad things are going to be for Joe Biden followed by election day with a historic victory,” he said.
While the campaign has been throbbing, the president has largely stayed out of the most watched races. For example, he completely avoided disparaging Kentucky’s Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, who won re-election Tuesday over Republican Daniel Cameron.
Biden himself shrugged off the dismal turnout when approached by reporters outside the White House Thursday.
“You don’t read the polls,” the president said. “I’ll give you 10 votes, eight of which I beat him [Trump] in those states. Eight of them. You only make two.”
In the RealClearPolitics average, Trump is up in Nevada 46.8% to 44.3%, 47.8% to 42.8% in Georgia, 47.3% to 43.7% in Arizona, 44.2% to 43.2% in Michigan, and 46.2% to 45.0% in Pennsylvania. Biden only edged Trump in Wisconsin, 46.5% to 46.0%.
Trump also leads Biden in the national popular vote, 45.6% to 44.5%.
The president has regularly bashed “extreme MAGA Republicans” in his pitch to voters. Reuters
“Make no mistake, 2024 will be a close election. And we know that we cannot take anything for granted. We have said it from the beginning,” campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodríguez stressed.
“We’re building a strong operation … where it matters most.”
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