The White House tries to spin voters into thinking they’re better off than they were under Trump.
President Biden has less than a year to convince voters that they are better off than they realize, and he’s off to a horrible start.
Mr. Biden could be seen this month bickering with reporters about the accuracy of a New York Times/Siena College survey that showed him trailing Donald Trump in five states that may decide the 2024 election. A Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll has since been released showing the same results. Sunday brought more bad news for the president in the form of an NBC News poll that put his job approval rating at 40%, which is down from 46% in January—the lowest of his presidency.
Even Mr. Biden’s base seems to be abandoning him. His once-comfortable lead among young people and Hispanics has diminished. The NBC poll found that 21% of all Democrats disapprove of his job performance, a lack of enthusiasm that could hamper turnout. As worrisome for the party is that 20% of black voters say they would consider voting for Mr. Trump. In 2020 the former president won just 12% of the black vote. Democrats know they can’t lose 1 in 5 black votes next year and expect to hold the White House.
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Jason L. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist at The Wall Street Journal, and a Fox News commentator. Follow him on Twitter here.
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