OPINION:
Call it the Joe Biden effect. “It’s bad,” one Democratic strategist, cited in The Hill in reference to President Biden’s poll numbers.
Yes. It is. And Democrats are worried about their political careers.
“Dems air anxieties after Biden’s brutal NBC poll,” Axios just wrote in a headline.
After all, their commander-in-chief, the one they tied their tethers to, the one they hitched their wagons to, is a dead man walking. Seriously. Just watch him walk. He shuffles, more than steps. He lumbers, more than strides. He looks like a guy who’s heavily medicated — like the guy who acted as Frankenstein’s monster in the classic Universal film of the 1930’s. “It’s alive!” — and all the journalists shout with joy when Biden actually makes it to the podium without dropping.
After Biden’s State of the Union, his dismal poll rankings ticked up slightly. That is to say, they went from dismal to dismal, but not as dismal. Now? Nowadays? They’re back down to decidedly dismal, stuck on bleak, sticking steadfastly on dreary.
“My hypothesis is that unless and until inflation comes down appreciably, there’s going to be a ceiling on his job approval that’s a lot lower than the White House wants it to be,” said Bill Galston, former domestic policy adviser during the Bill Clinton administration, in The Hill.
That’s a nice way of saying Biden’s got the anti-Midas touch.
By the numbers: Biden’s job approval versus disapproval stands at 39% versus 55% in Marist; 38% versus 55% in Quinnipiac; 45% versus 49% in YouGov; 40% versus 58% in Rasmussen; 42% versus 52% in Reuters; 42% versus 54% in Politico; 39% versus 55% in Harris; and 41% versus 54% in NBC News — all according to Real Clear Politics.
Sadly, NBC News just released a new poll on Sunday that found Biden actually fell a point in the last week or so — from 41% favor to 40% favor.
Inflation. Gas prices. Food prices. And don’t the White House spinmeisters know it. That’s why they’re all spinning their meisters off as fast as they can.
“Hi everyone. OK, on my first day back, I am delivering Jared Bernstein to all of you, who we are thrilled to have to give some brief remarks on the economic news today and answer some questions,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said during an April 1 press conference.
That Jen Psaki — what a chipper chirper she is.
April fools.
How apt.
“Everyone needs to come to terms with the reality that we’re going to get slaughtered in November [elections],” the unnamed Democratic strategist quoted in The Hill said. “That’s a fact.”
Democrats: party of the dead.
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