Maybe it’s a case of voter regret or a case of seeing how poorly President Biden has handled the various issues presented during the first year of his presidency. This kind of polling is fun, for entertainment purposes, but it does speak to how badly Biden has slipped in terms of approval rating and trust of the American people. With the White House running around trying to put out numerous blazing fires with little more than a squirt gun, Americans seem to be yearning for the days of yesteryear under the Trump administration. Inflation was controlled, the economy was soaring, and our foreign policy wasn’t such a disaster.
At the moment, more voters would pick Trump over Biden if the 2024 election was held today:
More voters would back former President Trump than President Biden in a hypothetical match-up if the 2024 election were held today, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey released exclusively to The Hill.
Forty-eight percent of voters in the survey said they would back Trump, compared with 45 percent for Biden. Another 8 percent were unsure.
The results were evenly split at 46 percent among women, while men backed Trump by a margin of 50 percent to 43 percent. Biden won urban voters by 20 percentage points and suburban voters by 4 percentage points, but Trump romped among rural voters by 33 percentage points.
The poll comes as Biden plays defense on a slate of issues, including inflation, stubbornly high rates of coronavirus infections and the messy withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The good news for Biden is that he has time to undo this mess before 2024. Not that he’d be expected to run at that time, it seems very unlikely given his age, but maybe he can leave a better legacy for the eventual Democratic nominee than the one he’s currently cementing. On the other hand, if things don’t turn around and improve at least slightly in 2022, Democrats are at risk of historic losses in the House and Senate, setting up the eventual 2024 GOP nominee for a positive environment in 2024.
If the economy improves, gas prices fall, and the supply chain calms down, then perhaps some of this sentiment could turn around. The only albatross hanging over Biden’s head that will never change is the disgrace of his Afghanistan withdrawal.
Things are so bad in that country, after it collapsed under Taliban rule thanks to Biden’s botched policy, that more and more young girls are being sold off for money just so families can buy food. These types of stories, while not foreign in this part of the world, unfortunately, are heartbreaking to read knowing that the American military presence in the country was at least partially preventing the need for this:
Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, some desperate families have resorted to selling their kids into marriage to make ends meet.
Benazir, for example, is an 8-year-old girl from Afghanistan whose family sold her for $2,000. The money will go toward keeping the rest of the family, including eight kids, alive, Benzari’s father told NBC News.
“We are 10 people in the family. I’m trying to keep 10 alive by sacrificing one,” Muraad Khan, 55, told NBC News. Khan hasn’t worked in months, which has made it hard to feed his large family
That is a legacy Biden cannot erase with rosy economy numbers or a falling Covid infection rate. The lasting legacy of letting this country slip from some kind of civilized order for twenty years, with a functioning economy, into a third-world abyss where daughters have once again become property, being bought and sold so families can put food on the table, is one which Biden won’t outlive.
The Afghanistan catastrophe is one which America won’t forget, and for which will not let Biden off the hook.
