While Democrats play hide the squirrel with the Jan. 6 hearings and heavily stoked outrage over the recent Supreme Court abortion ruling, President Biden’s poll numbers continue falling down the political hole.
The latest numbers from the Associated Press/NORC poll give Biden a tie for his record-low approval number of 39% which he hit last month. As for the “right track/wrong track,” question, even a massive majority of Biden’s own party says the country is going in the wrong direction:
An overwhelming and growing majority of Americans say the U.S. is heading in the wrong direction, including nearly 8 in 10 Democrats, according to a new poll that finds deep pessimism about the economy plaguing President Joe Biden.
Eighty-five percent of U.S. adults say the country is on the wrong track, and 79% describe the economy as poor, according to a new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The findings suggest Biden faces fundamental challenges as he tries to motivate voters to cast ballots for Democrats in November’s midterm elections.
Inflation has consistently eclipsed the healthy 3.6% unemployment rate as a focal point for Americans, who are dealing with high gasoline and food prices. Even among Democrats, 67% call economic conditions poor.
Biden’s poll numbers, like the country, are going in the wrong direction too for a politician that claims to be preparing a run for re-election in 2024. Can Biden defend his presidency and his policies? Could a successor like Vice President Kamala Harris defend them any better? Everyone associated with Biden is being painted with his failures.
Right along the lines of a story from earlier this week about over one million voters changing party affiliation and joining the GOP, the trend is being helped by Biden’s poor standing with voters:
Just 14% say things are going in the right direction, down slightly from 21% in May and 29% in April. Through the first half of 2021, about half of Americans said the country was headed in the right direction, a number that has steadily eroded in the past year.
Dorothy Vaudo, 66, said she voted for Biden in 2020 but plans to switch allegiance this year.
“I’m a Democrat so I had to vote Democrat, but that’s going to change,” said the Martin County, North Carolina resident.
Inflation keeps rising and Biden’s economic team has no good answer. The damage was already done by Biden’s big-spending policies.
If the Biden inflation catastrophe is followed by the Biden recession, what’s left for this administration to sell voters? The only potentiality would be for the economy to level out down the road and then what? Biden takes credit for it after putting the country in the ditch financially?
Meanwhile, Democrats are intent on broadcasting the Jan. 6 hearing as a way to sour the country on another Trump term in the White House. Then there’s abortion, the other hot issue for Democrats heading into the midterms.
Missing from the list are concerns about the economy or rising fuel costs. Democrats have no leadership at the top and no message moving forward other than more division and Trump derangement.
Biden’s stuck at 39% approval, but he’ll probably soon see 38%.
