CNN Poll: Biden faces negative job ratings and concerns about his age as he gears up for 2024About the “even Steven” stuff. That poll was paid for by a Trump PAC.Democrats aren't chanting "Let's go Brandon". He's in the position of being even Steven with Trump right now is because he's lukewarm - at the absolutely most charitable way of stating it - among Democrats. And that's the part that's baffling to me, and what I was getting at with the comment about his record.This was @ tif's post
I wonder how much of him being underwater is due to the type of people who became the loudest voices. Biden could turn all of them into millionaires and they'd still be chanting "Let's Go Brandon" and complaining about everything regardless because he's not the God King Trump.
I'd also argue he was handed a real **** sandwich, with 1/6 and Trumps tax cuts and Trump's handling of COVID... I feel like we're still trying to work our way back but that's a huge hole to climb out of.
Most of what's going on are things that are outside of any President's ability to control, or even really influence that much. But they all point to the question of "am I better off today than I was four years ago". (I'm sure that's a timeless calculus for incumbents, but I only remember it being an express tenet of the Reagan reelect in '84) And I think that's true for a far bigger chunk of the country than you'd probably believe given Biden's popularity numbers. That's the part I don't get, and what prompted the observation about his record.
Biden, Trump virtually tied in hypothetical match-up: poll
Quinnipiac, two weeks ago
538 average has them right at the margin of error across, I think, five polls, with Trump (generally) surging.