abc poll has set off a five alarm fire here in washington, dc at the dn dnc. first, biden s approval rating slipped to an all time low of 36%, second by a fifty four to 38% margin. voters find that trump oversaw better a better economy than biden, 63 and third. 63% say bide% san does not have the mental sharpness to serve effectively as president. upe effeel twenty percentage poi from 2020. so what does this all add up to ? the incumbent president is getting trounced now by his i top opponents, the poll finds. in a hypothetical matchup, trump beats biden by sevenbiden7 and desantis beats him by five . so how does that fare historically? now, in may 2011, barack obama, the last democrat incumbent, was trouncing al l of his the potential gop opponents. in fact, the closest was romne a ,who obama was still leading by 13 at that point.s mollie hemingwa joining me now is mollie hemingway, fox news contributor and editor in chief at and the federalist, and victorthe victor davis hanson, seni
years of biden s presidency. it s so interesting, steve kornacki, thank you very much for the. i think the one thing that we can probably all agree on is that the democrats would love for the republican nominee to beat donald trump. the democrats in washington without that just because they feel like if trump beats biden again, they know how i want the first time and know how it will go to second time. despite those poll numbers, don t see some way to scramble things politically. even if they did, there s one thing that president biden understands having been in washington since he was 29 years old, he understands how to use power. the shift in the calendar of the democratic primary, all but assures that there will be no challenger. we re talking about leaning into south carolina where black voters handed him the nomination, essentially wiping iowa, which is the one state where somebody like bernie sanders or someone else could make some noise. that calendar is a biden
wednesday 73% are dissatisfied with the direction of the country. four points higher than before the mid-term election. things have gotten worse in terms of people s impression of the situation. abc news poll came out 40% of americans say that their personal finances have gotten worse under biden. which is the worst number in 40 years in that poll. so you can t spin you can spin a lot of things in politics. you can t spin people s personal finances. you can t tell people you are doing better than you think you are. i know you looked at your bank account and stocks but i m telling you, we are doing well and just have to trust me and not your bank account. bill: trump beats biden in every category if 2024 is between those two. pete buttigieg was asked why isn t the president s accomplishments being received more by americans? here is that exchange. let s go to the president s
It’s a sign of just how awful a president Joe Biden has been: despite a substantial part of the country hating Trump with a rage usually reserved for serial killers, he might still beat Biden at.