Updated 00.07 | Published 2023-11-07 21.25
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The shock poll is night black for Joe Biden.
Now some fear “a historic mistake”.
– This will make the party tremble, says top strategist David Axelrod.
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After an autumn of heavy opinion polls for Joe Biden, the president has now received perhaps his worst clean-up yet.
In five of six swing states that Biden won in the last election, Trump is now in the lead.
It shows the survey from The New York Times and Siena College.
Worst in 50 years
In Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania, the pendulum has swung since the last election. Only in Wisconsin does Biden still have a slight advantage in public opinion.
Trump’s lead in the five states is between four and ten percentage points.
Even worse for Joe Biden is that his large lead among black voters is shrinking.
If the numbers are correct nationally, Biden risks becoming the first presidential candidate from the Democrats in 50 years to take home less than 80 percent of the black vote, writes The New York Times.
In many opinion polls, Joe Biden’s age, he will soon be 81, has been pointed out as a problem in the electorate.
“Can’t sit and be quiet”
But within the Democrats, they have closed ranks and stood behind the president.
Congressman Dean Phillips, who is serving his third term in the House of Representatives, last week became the first top Democrat to challenge Joe Biden for the White House in 2024.
Phillips was clear that he thinks Biden, whom he says he admires, is too old for another four years in the White House.
– It is time for a new generation of American leaders, he says.
The congressman believes that a presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump could mean a nightmare for the Democrats.
– I cannot sit still and be silent when the numbers clearly show that we are heading for an emergency in November next year, says Phillips according to The New York Times.
“The party trembles”
For this he was called a narcissist and accused of suffering from a mid-life crisis by exasperated party comrades.
But the mood in the party may, with a year to go until the election, be about to change.
“It is very late to bet on another horse. A lot will happen next year that no one can predict and Biden’s staff says that he is fully determined to run,” writes top strategist David Axelrod, who was an adviser to Barack Obama, on X.
But he admits that the shock measurement will make “the party tremble”.
Party profiler Andrew Yang, who ran as a candidate in the 2020 election, thinks Joe Biden should let someone younger come forward.
“If Biden steps aside, he will be remembered as a great statesman who beat Trump and accomplished a lot. If he decides to run again, it could end in one of the worst mistakes in history, giving us a disastrous second term for Trump,” he writes on X.
Trust Trump more
The survey shows that a large majority of voters, 59 percent to 37, trust Donald Trump more to fix the economy.
According to the survey, more people also trust Trump when it comes to immigration, national security and the US role in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The former president has made a big deal about the United States becoming an international joke since Biden took over.
The current president and his staff can only hope that not too many people reason like 33-year-old Travis Waterman from Arizona.
He tells The New York Times that he voted for Biden in 2020, but now sees him as “weak” and will choose Trump this time.
– I don’t think he’s the right guy to stand up to the other world leaders who don’t respect or fear him.
Joe Biden’s spokesman Kevin Munoz believes that polls a year before an election cannot be trusted. He compares it to the 2012 election when Republican Mitt Romney led by eight percentage points over Barack Obama a year before the actual votes were cast.