Biden losing his Covid support base

 Ed Morrissey:

Time for yet another measure of Joe Biden’s confidence-crisis cascade, and this one hits right at his strength in 2020. Biden won election in large part over trust in handling the pandemic and ending the chaos around the COVID-19 response. Thirteen months after taking office, voters give Biden a 39/57 rating on his top issue and are moving away from his mandates as well:

DEM VOTERS AND THE CULTURE WARS — Voter opinions about President JOE BIDEN’s handling of the pandemic continue to be an enormous anchor weighing down Democrats: Just 39% of registered voters approve of the job he’s doing, while 57% disapprove.

Democratic governors have been trying to get ahead of pandemic fatigue by lifting mask mandates around the country. The country is moving further and further in that direction. Forty-nine percent of voters want mask mandates removed, while 43% say it is too early for states to rescind their mask mandates.

We’ll get to the “culture war” material in a moment. First, let’s unpack Biden’s standing on the pandemic in this Morning Consult poll data. Only 17% overall rate his handling of COVID-19 as “excellent,” while 41% rate it as “poor.” He gets relatively weak marks from his fellow Democrats (71/26), and you can imagine what Republicans think of his performance (9/87). Among independents, though, Biden gets a disastrous 34/60, with 40% of respondents rating his performance as poor.

Other demos look equally bad. There is hardly any difference between men (39/58) and women (39/56). Young voters (18-34YOs), many of whom are largely dealing with school restrictions in high school and college, give him the worst rating of all the age demos (30/61) — not a good sign for a party that needs youth-vote turnout in the fall. Even more precisely, GenZ-ers (born after 1996) give Biden a 23/65 rating on pandemic management, while Millennials (1981-96) aren’t much more generous (39/54).

Let’s look at a few more demos that matter for Democrats in the midterms:

• Whites: 36/60, 45% poor
• Hispanics: 38/54, 30% poor
• Blacks: 55/40, 16% poor
• Urban: 50/43, 27% poor
• Suburban: 38/59, 41% poor

Those are very bad numbers, especially among black and urban voters. Democrats need massive turnout in both demos to compete in November. None of them appear terribly enthusiastic about Biden or his response to the pandemic now, and that means that the GOTV effort will be Sisyphean at best.

There’s more bad news for Democrats. Biden’s fumbling on the pandemic and the fight over parental rights that he and Merrick Garland exacerbated have turned into a massive cultural inflection point, and Republicans are winning on it. And that’s not just in the Morning Consult data either, but also in Democrats’ private polling....

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There is more.

While this is mostly bad news for Democrats it is an encouraging sign for America that voters are ready to move on from the Democrats.  It is clear that voters in 2020 were misled by the anti-Trump agenda of Big Tech and the media.  Regrets they have a few.