Several of our contributors have made this case. Biden is done. It is his last dance. The DNC is going through the motions to nominate him before he ‘falls ill’ (or just falls) so they can anoint his replacement before the general election.
But the political world isn’t acting like that, and a recent poll has inspired a collective dirtying of progressive diapers.
Voters in battleground states said they trusted Donald J. Trump over President Biden on the economy, foreign policy and immigration, as Mr. Biden’s multiracial base shows signs of fraying.
President Biden is trailing Donald J. Trump in five of the six most important battleground states one year before the 2024 election, suffering from enormous doubts about his age and deep dissatisfaction over his handling of the economy and a host of other issues, new polls by The New York Times and Siena College have found.
The results show Mr. Biden losing to Mr. Trump, his likeliest Republican rival, by margins of four to 10 percentage points among registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania. Mr. Biden is ahead only in Wisconsin, by two percentage points, the poll found.
Across the increasingly fruitless plain, Biden looks bad, but not that bad. Several of the gaps are well within the Left’s ability to compensate. And while the peasants are restless about many things, they say the economy will define their choice. And while Donald Trump may trounce his GOP primary challengers, his numbers against a generic Democrat in a general election are not great, which is important.
We need to remember that the Democrat experts suggesting Biden needs to step back all answer to Barry Obama. This poll and their reactions are less about framing the likely loss by Biden and more about preparing the post-nomination battle space for Biden’s departure. Democrat primary voters don’t choose the nominee; delegates and super-delegates do that. The system is fixed to ensure the Party Bosses get who they want -just ask Bernie Sanders.
Biden will be the nominee at the convention, but he will not be the general election candidate, and everything from now until then is stagecraft.
We can debate who the producers of this political theater might be, but Barry Obama has to be on that list. So, the real question isn’t how well Biden is doing in swing states or what Democrats will do in the wake of Biden’s declining popularity. They’ve already decided. The question is, who they will announce to replace Nominee Biden and when.
HT | Ace
