Polling panics Biden team

 The Hill:

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It is quite astonishing how much Team Biden is frozen by loud, obnoxious voices in the New York-Washington media echo chamber. These voices do not represent the country at-large, and it particularly does not represent people’s views in swing states. Biden is impotently mumbling and stumbling through the Israel-Hamas war, hectored by a microscopic minority of the population. He cannot take action to limit illegal immigration and has no answers on inflation.

I doubt it is a coincidence that the recent and disastrous New York Times-Siena poll immediately preceded Biden throwing down the debate challenge (or accepting it, depending on your perspective). Nothing induces panic in elite New York-D.C. circles than bad news in the supposed paper of record.

Never mind that their polling is nothing special, and certainly no better than pollsters like YouGov and Morning Consult.

Any bad news or opinion served up by the Times is certain to rattle Democratic elites, but anything favorable to Trump is far, far worse. This latest poll — just the latest in a stream of bad polls for Biden — provoked the fury of Joe Scarborough and other Biden proxies in the media. After all, the New York Times is supposed to be on their team! It is not so much the numbers that hurt as the betrayal.

Biden is losing, so has no choice but to debate. Not only are his polling numbers awful, they are durably awful. His RealClearPolitics average approval is at negative 16 points and trending downward. His approval on inflation, which continues to be the top issue, is even worse. The most recent YouGov poll has him at 30 percent approval (a number propped up by reflexive Democratic support) to 62 percent disapproval. Among independents he is down 20 percent approve to 66 percent disapprove.

In an April YouGov poll, the last time this question was polled, voters solidly believed the economy would be better with Trump. Just 21 percent said the economy would get better with Biden, versus 47 percent who said it would get worse, with a plurality in all age groups against Biden. In contrast, 42 percent thought the economy would improve under Trump (including a slight plurality of independents), versus 34 percent who disagreed.
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Biden used Covid as an excuse for a reckless spending spree that triggered an inflationary sprial.  All you have to do is look at the inflation numbers under Trump compared to Biden to understand why Trump is leading in the polls.  The NY Times is sounding alarm because it does not support Trump despite his better records than Biden.

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