President Joe Biden has become one of the most unpopular presidents in modern times, and that won’t bode well for his reelection bid later this year, an MSNBC analyst said on Sunday.
One of the network’s political analysts, Steve Kornacki, claimed that NBC’s end-of-year poll is comparable to data for other presidents entering the final year of their first terms.
Biden was at 40 percent approval in the survey, which was released in November, and 57 percent disapproval, which Kornacki said is the “lowest” of all, dating back to President George H. W. Bush, who went on to lose his reelection bid to Democrat Bill Clinton.
In an analysis of average 2024 general election polls, the trend shifted from favoring Biden over Trump by 2 points to Trump leading by plus-two. Political commentator Kornacki highlighted the significance of voter concerns, with three out of four expressing major to moderate worries about Biden’s age (81) and fitness for the presidency.
He added that the election is anticipated to be quite close and that the “big thing” for Trump is the growing concern about his legal status, particularly in the event of a conviction.
Additionally, Democratic and Republican voters did not generally either Biden or Trump, according to Kornacki’s analysis of the data.
Kornacki displayed a graphic from a recent Wall Street Journal poll that included prominent people like Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Robert Kennedy Jr. in addition to the two major parties in the presidential campaign. A more comprehensive viewpoint on possible candidates for the next election is reflected in the survey.
Numerous political analysts believe that Trump’s ongoing prosecutions by the Biden administration are positively impacting his polling numbers. One such analyst claimed that Biden was making Trump into the “Nelson Mandela of America”—a massively inflated victim of false persecution.
Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner noted last week that “nearly 7 in 10 voters, or 69%, believe that politics ‘has played’ a role in the four indictments against Trump, according to a new survey shared with Secrets.”
“Voters perceive Democratic strong-arm tactics to remove America’s most popular politician through legal and political means, and they are incensed by them,” he continued. “They also believe that President Joe Biden and his Justice Department are responsible for these tactics.”
Additionally, 58 percent of respondents said they believe that Biden himself has had a role in ensuring Trump was indicted, including a third of Democrats, 54 percent of black voters, and 58 percent of Hispanic respondents. Also, more than half — 56 percent — say they want the DOJ to “stop targeting Donald Trump and interfering with the upcoming presidential election and Biden should let the voters decide who the next president should be,” the survey said.