2024-03-03 08:45:00
A series of “alarming signals” weighs on the current President of the United States. In a survey published Saturday March 2 by the New York Times, Joe Biden is losing ground to his Republican rival Donald Trump. Thus, if voters were to vote today to elect their president, 43% would vote for Joe Biden, compared to 48% for Donald Trump, according to this study carried out at the national level.
The publication of this poll comes eight months before the November election, and four days before “Super Tuesday”, a crucial event during which fifteen states simultaneously organize their Democratic and Republican primaries. Joe Biden and Donald Trump are almost guaranteed to be nominated by their respective parties.
The Democratic president may insist, with supporting figures, that the economy is doing well, “only one in four voters think that the country is moving in the right direction”, with “a majority of voters [qui] think the economy is doing badly,” according to the poll.
In addition to the economy, the age of President Biden, 81, as well as his firm support for Israel, at war in Gaza, also explain the unease within part of his electorate. Added to this is his latest slip of the tongue, during a meeting with the President of the Italian Council, Giorgia Meloni. The Democrat twice confused the war situation in Gaza with that in Ukraine, as reported The Telegraph.
The Republican Party deemed “more united”
In fact, this poll alerts to “weaknesses within the Democratic camp, particularly among women, black and Latino voters”, as well as some workers, we can read in the New York Times. Despite his numerous legal setbacks, Donald Trump’s control over the Republican Party on the contrary gives a “more united” camp.
The ex-president “won 97% of the votes of those who said they voted for him four years ago, and virtually none of his former supporters said they wanted to vote for Joe Biden.” Conversely, the current president “only receives 83% of his 2020 voters, with 10% of them saying they now support Donald Trump”.
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