In the latest New York Times/Siena Poll Trump has his biggest lead over Biden ever. And Biden’s disapproval rating is a whopping 59 percent. I list 18 key points from the poll.
The Big Change
Nate Cohn, New York Times chief political analyst notes The Big Change Between the 2020 and 2024 Races: Biden Is Unpopular. That’s a free link for interested readers.
President Biden is not winning, at least not now. Polls show him trailing in states worth well over 270 electoral votes, and this morning he lags Donald J. Trump in our newest New York Times/Siena College national poll by five percentage points among registered voters, 48 percent to 43 percent.
That’s the largest lead Mr. Trump has ever had in a Times/Siena national poll. In fact, it’s the largest lead Mr. Trump has held in a Times/Siena or Times/CBS poll since first running for president in 2015.
Why is President Biden losing? There are many possible reasons, including his age, the war in Gaza, the border and lingering concerns over inflation. But ultimately, they add up to something very simple: Mr. Biden is very unpopular. He’s so unpopular that he’s now even less popular than Mr. Trump, who remains every bit as unpopular as he was four years ago.
Many voters will apparently agonize between two candidates they dislike. It’s exactly what Democrats sought to avoid when they nominated Mr. Biden in 2020. It’s what Democrats largely avoided in the 2018 and 2022 midterm elections, when they mostly nominated acceptable candidates or ran incumbents against right-wing opponents. And it’s exactly what led to the election of Mr. Trump in 2016.
Double Haters
Overall, 19 percent of registered voters in the Times/Siena survey have an unfavorable view of both candidates — a group sometimes referred to as “double haters.” These voters say they backed Mr. Biden by a three-to-one margin among those who voted in 2020, but now he holds the support of less than half. Every vote counts, but these voters will undoubtedly be pivotal in deciding the November election.
The double haters might ultimately return to Mr. Biden’s side. There are still eight months left until November, and it’s not as if these voters like Mr. Trump. If they do come back to Mr. Biden, perhaps their return will have seemed inevitable in retrospect.
Poll Results
In a second post, the New York Times goes over the Poll Results.
With eight months left until the November election, Mr. Biden’s 43 percent support lags behind Mr. Trump’s 48 percent in the national survey of registered voters.
Eighteen Key Points
- Only one in four voters think the country is moving in the right direction.
- More than twice as many voters believe Mr. Biden’s policies have personally hurt them as believe his policies have helped them.
- A majority of voters think the economy is in poor condition.
- The share of voters who strongly disapprove of Mr. Biden’s handling of his job has reached 47 percent, higher than in Times/Siena polls at any point in his presidency.
- About as many Democratic primary voters said Mr. Biden should not be the nominee in 2024 as said he should be — with opposition strongest among voters younger than 45 years old.
- Mr. Trump is winning 97 percent of those who say they voted for him four years ago, and virtually none of his past supporters said they are casting a ballot for Mr. Biden.
- Mr. Biden is winning only 83 percent of his 2020 voters, with 10 percent saying they now back Mr. Trump.
- Among the likely electorate, Mr. Trump currently leads by four percentage points.
- The historical edge Democrats have held with working-class voters of color who did not attend college continues to erode. Mr. Biden won 72 percent of those voters in 2020, according to exit polling, providing him with a nearly 50-point edge over Mr. Trump. Today, the Times/Siena poll showed Mr. Biden only narrowly leading among nonwhite voters who did not graduate from college: 47 percent to 41 percent.
- Only 23 percent of Democratic primary voters said they were enthusiastic about Mr. Biden — half the share of Republicans who said they were about Mr. Trump. Significantly more Democrats said they were either dissatisfied or angry at Mr. Biden being the leader of the party (32 percent) than Republicans who said the same about Mr. Trump (18 percent).
- Both Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden are unpopular. Mr. Trump had a weak 44 percent favorable rating; Mr. Biden fared even worse, at 38 percent. Among the 19 percent of voters who said they disapproved of both likely nominees — an unusually large cohort in 2024 that pollsters and political strategists sometimes call “double haters” — Mr. Biden actually led Mr. Trump, 45 percent to 33 percent. The candidate who had won such “double haters” was victorious in the elections in both 2016 and 2020.
- Unhappiness with the state of the country is plainly a drag on Mr. Biden’s prospects. Two-thirds of the country feels the nation is headed in the wrong direction — and Mr. Trump is winning 63 percent of those voters.
- Only 12 percent of independent voters said Mr. Biden’s policies had personally helped them, compared to 43 percent who said his policies had hurt them.
- Overall, Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump were dead even among prized independent voters, drawing 42 percent each.
- The gender gap is no longer benefiting Democrats. Women, who strongly favored Mr. Biden four years ago, are now equally split, while men gave Mr. Trump a nine-point edge.
- The poll showed Mr. Trump edging out Mr. Biden among Latinos, and Mr. Biden’s share of the Black vote is shrinking, too.
- The poll showed that 53 percent of voters currently believe Mr. Trump has committed serious federal crimes, down from 58 percent in December. But viewed another way, Mr. Trump’s current lead over Mr. Biden is built with a significant number of voters who believe he is a criminal.
- Nikki Haley, Mr. Trump’s Republican rival, who has made the case that he will lose in November, leads Mr. Biden by double the margin of the former president: a hypothetical 45 percent to 35 percent.
Quite a Set of Statistics
Wow, that’s quite the set of statistics. I emphasized the poll results I believe are most important.
In numerical order, not order of importance the key points are #s 2, 7, 9, 13, 15, 17, and 18.
The only negatives in the poll are #14 and #18.
Regarding point 14, Trump is still struggling with independents.
Regarding point 18, Haley would do better than Trump against Biden. That is believable given 19 percent of voters hate both Trump and Biden and would vote for someone else.
Who Would No Labels Help?
If the No Labels party fielded a candidate, it was draw in a lot of the independents, a lot of Haley supporters, and a lot of the people who dislike both Trump and Biden.
Given that support for Trump appears firmer, one should conclude that No Labels would hurt Biden more than Trump.
Trump Would Rather Win Adoration From the Base Than Win the Election
As expected I took a lot of flack from my post Trump Would Rather Win Adoration From the Base Than Win the Election
A couple of people labeled me a RINO (Republican in Name Only), which is amusing because I am not a Republican at all.
I am a Libertarian who is a believer in small government, free trade, and mind-your-own-business on foreign affairs and the bedroom.
Several people accused me of TDS despite the fact that I said “I would much rather have Trump win than Biden. I think Biden would economically destroy the nation.”
I also said “a big majority of the nation knows Biden is too senile to run again,” which of course got a lot catcalls from Biden lovers.
A few people viewed me as “Leftist”.
Once again this shows you cannot say anything bad about either Trump of Biden without being accused of being extreme the other.
In retrospect, this is now the 5th time I have been accused of being extreme left and right in the same day.
Can Anything Go Wrong for Trump?
The short answer: Yes, it’s possible. But that is a “can happen” not what I expect to happen.
The long answer: It’s only March. The election in 8 months away. Trump could easily get convicted. Biden might drop out due to health reasons. If that happened, could Trump easily beat Biden’s replacement?
This is why I keep repeating Trump cannot afford to ignore independents and Haley backers.
Calling Haley a “birdbrain” does not help. Nor does calling California Governor Gavin Newsom the name “New Scum.”
One of my readers, Jon, commented “That’s exactly why I will never vote for Donald Trump. He appeals to people’s basest nature instead of pushing them act on their best nature. I don’t belong in the same political party as those who cheer at national leaders being called bird brain and new scum“
There are many thousands of people like Jon.
Enough to tip the election?
I don’t know. Nor does anyone else. Right now, the answer seems to be no. That’s how unpopular Biden is.
But the election is not right now. The election is in November.
after latest they are already talking Desantis Haley and how to accomplish
and would I contribute 250 K or more
answer is no
Trump will drop out
Dementia
How ridiculous
You may believe what you wish
it is getting worse by the week
all around him know it and are praying he can last into November but it will likely not be the case
I had over 100 mil in one of my accounts in 1995
you can imagine what I have now and what connections it brings
He will not make it to the finish line
Mish says “This is why I keep repeating Trump cannot afford to ignore independents and Haley backer..”
This is why I think Trump might select Haley as VP, she would be an electoral asset for getting those independent and women voters to vote for Trump. And, He is calling her birdbrain in on only to see how tough she is.
white zionists somehow claim land thats their even though no one in the Bible is white and a lot.of.the Jews in the Middle East weren’t white but darker skinned mizrahi jews
The brutality of zionist killing women and children and men is just a reflection of the brutality of Europeans.
You win by killing your enemy, so what’s your point? A sore loser perhaps? Whoever told you life is fair, they lied to you.
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Calling Haley a “birdbrain” does not help. Nor does calling California Governor Gavin Newsom the name “New Scum.”
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If anyone but Trump did so, sure.
Trump? Very possibly. But one of his strengths is being outrageous enough to excite people who otherwise long since gave up on politics and voting.
There is a; how big is anyone’s guess; part of the Republican “Base”; or at least an Anti-Democrat base; who can be called action on election day; by outrageousness and outrageousness only.
While at the same time; more moderate voters just don’t recoil at that sort of thing, if it comes from Trump, the way they would have if any other candidate talked like that. Similar to how Rockstars can get away with stuff mere mortals can’t. They’re just being rockstars. And Trump’s just being Trump.
She looks like a bird so birdbrain will stick. . Newscum sounds like something Hannity made up and therefore not as effective.
Makes sense. A 3 point drop every week he stays in office. He will be down to 70% by the end of June!
Ukraine shot down 11 SU-34 and two A-50 AWACS planes in Jan and Feb. Russia shot
down 38 Ukrainian drones. It’s a tie 1:1 in min 90. Time for peace talks.
Jewish honky go back to Europe. Fake white Jews.
The radical Islamist in Londonistan prevent white members of the parliament to vote. Radical Islamist terrorists blocked Trudeau & Meloni meeting in Toronto.
it’s very simple leave and go back to Europe.
Saddam tried to assassinate papi Bush. That’s why Cheney hanged Saddam. Instead
of thanking him GW Bush pops stabbed his son in the back. He was hugging the Clintons.
When general Schwartzkops conquered Bagdad the mob looted warehouses and
dragged Saddam statue down. GW Bush : the mob had a party, enjoying their new democracy and freedom. Out of that weakness Isis was born.
In Afghanistan kids who planted side bombs were never punished. Our generals and special forces were more afraid of the media and military lawyers. That’s why navy seals died in Afghanistan. Our generals have no clue why we lost Iraq and Afghanistan. The US is trying to infect our friends and proxies with confused policies that reward our enemies.
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind –
link to m.youtube.com
For all you youngsters out there, check the date of the interview and comments thread, “where did you get this?” No wonder Steve Carrell played this devil in a movie.
‘our enemies’ ….the ones you invented ?
US + Russia vs China is better than : US vs Russia and China. The current policy might reverse.
I played soccer on a football turf with Bandera and Russians. Smart tough players. Fantastic dribblers. Never had an issue with them. The last thing I want is to face guys like that on a battlefield. I am sure many of them died in
the last two years.
If Trump wins he will attack the Middle East and America will lose. Russia will back.up Iran and American ships will.br sunk by hypersonic missiles.
you wanna bet some $$$ on that?
Trump’s unfavorables rating is understandable given the 24/7 negative coverage by Pravda: hum, I mean the MSM. If he had the favorable coverage like Biden, his favorable ratings would be much higher.
Despite Biden’s favorable treatment by the press, it’s still surprising that 38% hold him in a favorable light. There is no fixing stupid!
Biden has to have some very dumb handlers. After ignoring the train derailment and the border he visits both. Showing concern or just reminding people he ignored both.
Now we have the murder in Ga – silence from Biden, but he was quick to call Floyd’s family.
Israel was created by whites to subjugate and torture the Middle East. Leave and go back to Europe.
But the really right wing religious zealots like Ben Gvir are from the region. The Ashkenazi Jews from Europe used to be the more reasonable ones. But Oct. 7 and all the propaganda that followed has even turned these ones into psychopaths.
Gvir is a white person he has no connection to the region.
In France also we have many persons that have no connection to the region. And they are not “white persons”
The IDF surrounded Qatar city in Khan Yunis Jasa where Hamas leaders live. Hamas refused to submit a hostage list. Hamas torpedo the ceasefire. They hope that during the ramadan Hezbollah, the west bank and Iran will exterminate the zionist state, starting an Israeli nakba to Syria and Iran.
White europeans fuck off back to.europe.from.israel. Fake white people who converted to Judaism
Chicago nightlife perking up last night-
link to cwbchicago.com
“Once again this shows you cannot say anything bad about either Trump of Biden without being accused of being extreme the other.”
Between bots and the ease with which someone can communicate a pseudo-anonymous retort online it is quite difficult say something bad about anything without being accused of holding an extreme position.
Over the past 40 years’ worth of U.S. presidential elections neither candidate wins a majority of the Voting Eligible Population (VEP) and there is no reason to think 2024 will be different. Neither of the heavily-promoted candidates was ‘popular’ 4 years ago and neither have done anything to make themselves more popular.
link to presidency.ucsb.edu
This election reminds me of the one in 1972 between Richard Nixon and George McGovern. Many voters disliked both candidates, so they did not vote. Nixon won, to our nation’s later shame and regret.
1) The Fed borrowed your money without your knowledge and permission and without paying u interest rates. The Fed still owes your bank account $3.5T for an IOU. The Fed lent this money to the gov for an IOU. The gov kept spending $34T. The money is gone. Add unrealized promises between $150T and $200T.
2) When the Fed stopped hiking over $2T of RRP liquidity poured in. This tsunami of money was invested in t-bills and the Mag7. Lately investors rotated from t-bills to the
stock markets and creepto, buying them from the strong hands. That’s why interest rates were rising.
3) Fed balance sheet : Assets minus RRP. RRP is down $2T to $441B in 1Y since Dec 2022. The Fed balance sheet was rising by $2T. The $1.4T QT slowed down the rise of the Fed balance sheet ==> QE in 2023. If the Fed reduces the last $441B RRP more money will fuel the casino. The fake CPI (rent of the primary resident plus 4 x OER)is down. Either recession will stop the drunken sailor, or new hiking.
4) Mike Johnson what are u going to do about it in mid Mar 2024.
The Fed balance sheet : assets minus [RRP + IOU debt to your bank account]. Since
RRP is down by $2T and the IOU is down from $4.3T to $3.5T (-800B) ==> the 2023 QE, after $1.4T QT, was higher.
Mish: you missed a big one>>>>> ELECTION “FIXING.”
Do you believe that Biden ACTUALLY won?
Is the Erection College (Electoral, sorry, mistyped) going to work for Trump?
Why did the GOP not try to catch Biden if the Democrats cheated? If you think what they did was to try and find the cheats, you’re lying to yourself. 1 for 61 in court cases, the one win was essentially meaningless.
Real wages are down during the Biden era, so it’s no wonder so many think his policies have hurt them personally, except to democratic strategists who keep pouting how great the economy while ignoring the damage to the average Joe’s pocket, and this might be the most important issue to independent voters. Biden’s support for the Gaza genocide won’t do him any favors either.
I do not think Haley would do as well as she thinks she would against Biden, simply because a section of MAGA voters would never vote for her without a Trump endorsement, and this might be 10 to 20% of the population, and I suspect they far exceed the number of Haley supporters who would never vote for Trump.
Overall, things are looking good for Trump. His main threat are the criminal cases he is facing, if he can somehow get over those he will wipe the floor with old Joe.
Shocking RFK jr. Is not mentioned.
Praise King Trump.
Sorry Mish but … This is a complete waste of time … Its way too early to make any calls when we don’t know who the players will be …
I think anyone who believes #18 is smoking too much wacky tobaccy. Haley is another Republican like the Bushes,McCain, Romney, etc…happy to be pushed around by Democrats. Trump is a fighter.
For those bashing Jimmy Carter, I hope you remember the time as a US Navy officer when he saved a Canadian nuclear research center from blowing up. Nixon set a trap for the next President when he took the US off the gold standard.
The man was THE man when it came to Habitat 4 Humanity and his post Presidential work. Simply a humble and amazing Ambassador and human. By all accounts a fabulous family man too that raised his family right. Feel free to add this Navy incident to his long list of honorable and impressive accomplishments. Being a good US President is NOT one of them. It’s okay to say it
Only thing I give jimmy Carter credit for is legalizing home brewing.
Deregulating air travel and trucking come to mind.
Ford was next. Nixon commanded wage and price controls twice. The 70’s were a lousy time for most of us, despite the failing memories of baby boomers.
Thought you would find this interesting, they sent this post to my junk file, everyone should watch the Tucker interview with Mike Benz, it explains what they did and will be doing to rig the next election. Thanks for your honest work Mish, hopefully, it won’t be censored into obscurity
The comments here are pretty hilarious. Neither Biden or Trump talk about the real issues. That the bottom 70% are getting really tired and broke from financing thru monetization the American warfare machine. That technological advances are really getting beyond what the senile old group of politicians we have understand beyond profiteering off insider trading. That captured regulators are favoring one or two major corporations in each market totaling screwing the average American. That party politics is interfering with the functioning of government. That running an ever widening deficit that will eventually be monetized on the backs of those that can least afford it.
I give Biden and Trump both F’s on their handling of foreign policy with Trump the F- for bailing on the Iran nuke treaty.
I give Biden a C for fighting against monopolies and Trump an F.
I’m not sure Trump scores any better on inflation than Biden and Trump’s love of low interest rates is misguided because they are a big reason why we got here.
I give Biden an F- on press freedom for condoning Ukraine’s murder of American journalist Gonzalo Lira, online censorship, and using the full extent of the law to prosecute whistleblowers. Trump was only marginally better. He had a chance to pardon Manning and Assange but wimped out.
They both get F’s for monster military budgets.
Neither Trump nor Biden has a good plan for getting the high cost of medical care reduced.
Homelessness is on its way to becoming a huge nationwide problem. Neither is proposing what it will really take, the Feds getting back into the business of building low income housing.
Neither Trump nor Biden has a coherent vision for a new and improved America and I sure as hell ain’t voting for either of them.
It’s amazing to see that you omitted illegal immigration and inflation the two most important issues that Americans care about. That tell something about your neutral appearance attempt. “Biden fighting monopolies” what does that even mean? do you mean using monopolies like Google & FB to censor ordinary American citizens?
I missed that one: I give both Biden and Trump an F for handling the border. Trump with his stupid physical wall which never got built and Biden for being way behind on dealing with the issue and now Trump effectively blocking any legislation to work on the issue getting passed in Congress.
You missed the online censorship under Biden’s F- for press freedom in my original comment.
And don’t forget Trump had Epstein assassinated in jail….
People just refuse to consider 3rd party. Now RFk Jr. Is on Texas and GA ballots and making his way onto 50 by successfully using corrupt state secretaries
Bailing on the Iran deal was a mistake as was moving Israel’s capital to Jerusalem. But Trump didn’t start any new wars. Biden started the Urkaine war. Thus, I’d give Trump a D+ and Biden an F- on foreign affairs.
I’m surrounded by educated but yet dumb people! Yikes one trillion in loans every 100 days, 7/8 million migrants needing housing and health care (many may be armed soldiers), no copper piping does not protect you its the lead brazing…on and on. Progressives have destroyed the minds of most educated adults. They don’t realize social security is gone, gone!!! Biden spent it all. Thank you Mish, one of the few intelligent economist serving middle Americans!
SSI isn’t gone. It’s still functioning and will continue to do so. It is and always has been a wealth transfer program, funded by both SSI tax and debt. The debt will eventually be paid off by inflation. Another government wealth transfer program. The SSI trust fund was always a myth. If was spent as soon as if arrived. It just hide the true scale of the federal deficit while it was still in the red.
“… the war in Gaza”
What war? It is a massacre and a genocide, not a war.
You need to thank the religious right who hacked heads and raped…there is no end when you start a war in that manner. They had homes, gardens, lots of MONEY, and they wasted it on tunnels. There is no end, and the US may soon experience the same.
Lies that have been debunked to those that pay attention.
Yeah. I really wish those horrible Israelis hadn’t initiated that unprovoked sneak-attack upon the Palestinians in Gaza back in October. You know, killing all of those innocent non-combatant women and kids and those people at that concert. How many hostages are those Israelis still holding? Oh, wait…
Israel has been killing innocent Palestinian civilians every goddamn year. Some years, it is tens of thousands of people. Some years, it is “only” in the thousands.
History didn’t start on 10/07/2023. It started with the Balfour Declaration on 11/2/1917, if not even earlier than that.
What is an innocent Palestinian civilian? A Hamas terrorist who is out of ammunition
Infants, babies, toddlers and old people too?
No need to answer the question. We already know what crap Zionists are made of!
They get killed because they engage in terrorism. They must learn to live in peace and admit they lost a long time ago. If they cannot move on, they must be removed.
And how many hostages is Israel holding? How about at least 1200? And this was BEFORE Oct 2023.
link to apnews.com
If you detain someone and don’t ever put them on trial, they are not detainees; they are hostages.
One can see by reading the comments that the Israeli propaganda machine is working wonders on the feeble minded. I only wish all these idiots would be transported to Gaza to enjoy the carnage they support.
The Gazans largely support Hamas and their barbaric atrocities, they are getting exactly what they wanted. You cannot have civilization in proximity to these sorts of people.
I can’t believe democrats will let Biden run unless they actually want Trump to win.
The more moderate democrats would never admit it, but they know the country did much better under Trump.
How that ? Trump would likewise had inflation issues.
True, but, at least there wouldn’t have been a Ukraine war and our border would be a little less leaky. Also he wouldn’t have passed a second stimulus and the Inflation act give away program for green energy. But he did do a lot of stupid things in response to Covid.
Mish, ever think of going back to Danville to take your own poll?
Once free, stay free.
Well, I guess that Trump has the election in the bag. There is no way Biden can win. He is too old and too unpopular. Biden’s economy is terrible (the best-advanced economy in the world). Biden’s handling of inflation has been hapless (The fastest deceleration and lowest inflation of all advanced capitalist economies). Biden has gotten nothing done (The most significant bi-partisan infrastructure legislation in 50 years, the legislation allowing Medicare & Medicaid to negotiate prescription drug prices, and the most comprehensive long-term investment to reduce U.S. carbon emissions). Biden is a terrible President, corrupt and senile. Trump’s a shoo-in.
This is a mixture of democratic talking points and an undiagnosed brain injury. Nobody said or suggested Trump is a shoe in.
Happy days are here again!! The skies above are clear again!!!
It is inconceivable that Biden still has 40% support.
That tells you that 40% of the country is really voting for the letter next to the candidate’s name. Don’t believe me? Then explain how Biden and Fetterman got elected.
Fetterman has great Hoodies.
Inside that hoodie is an empty mind.
Republicans somehow thought the carpet bagger Dr Oz was going to win an election. That was a laughable misstep. Both parties constantly do it up and down the ballot.
Even with regime media’s best effort and a weaponized Deep State wholly focused on destroying Trump and conservatives, they aren’t going to save Dementia Man. The Biden regime’s damage has been catastrophic across every metric that matters; a lot of people can see it now, even if “journalists” can’t.
What metrics are you looking at that Biden is destroying? And how would Trump do any better? Biden seems like a pretty average American President to me and fairly centrist.
Biden, like all establishment-approved politicians, is a puppet of the global agenda.
They’ve been driving America into the dirt.
Sounds more like a conspiracy story to me than actual facts. You do know America has largely been setting the global agenda since the 2nd world war and it is America now that is largely in conflict with the global organizations it setup I.e. the UN, WTO, etc.
Open borders, lawless, sanctuary cities, climate extremism, race and gender indoctrination…these people have done everything short of bombing Moscow (yet) as provocation.
This is top-down.
Do you see this as ” conspiracy theory”?
Average because guys like you cancel out the votes of guys like me. Biden is horrendous.
Why ?
Inflation, surging debt, unnecessary wars, using the biden “brand” to enrich his family and caring more about Ukraine’s border than our border. Should I go on???
“Dems on the brink of disaster…”
✅️Democrats are winning special elections.
✅️Democrats are flipping red seats.
✅️Democrats are outraising Republicans.
But Democrats are on the brink of disaster because red wave clickbait analysts said so? Sounds legit…
I love it! Keep the polls coming (who actually answers these polling phone calls?). Keep dismissing Biden. Keep believing that Trump supporters represent a majority of voting Americans. The disbelief will be deafening after the votes are counted.
You are right, women don’t want Tump sending moms to jail for taking birth control or having a miscarriage. My aunts had several miscarriages…its an awful experience to go to jail for it is unimaginable.
We’re at war. Calling the enemy a few unpleasant names is not much.
Bidan wasn’t popular in 2020.
I lived outside NYC and TRUMP talks like a New York Realtor.
He is not a politician. Biden -the mega liar – is a politician.
Trump is a lot of trash talk and a lot of ad hominem – dont conflate style with substance. His style is rough – his substance is mostly spot on.
Trump relates to the working man and I will vote for him.
I wont let him date my sister or have him at my dinner table – but I would not want FDR or JFK or Clinton near my sister or dinner table either.
I wouldn’t trust someone with the justice department and the nuclear codes if they can’t be trusted at the dinner table with a dozen people keeping an eye on him. I’d like to see him beat Biden for entertainment value, but I do think character and behavior actually matters when endowing someone with that much power.
If Donald Trump had not been born on third base, he would have been another “Crazy Eddie” or a very successful used car salesman. The crazy thing is that Biden was born in Scranton PA in a very lower middle class family. He experienced personal challenges that he had to overcome (his stuttering), and then he experienced great personal loss when his baby daughter and wife were killed in an auto accident. Buy you say that Trump relates to the working man when he was born into a multi-millionaire family, was so ill-behaved as a teenager that his parents sent him away to a boarding Military Academy. He inherited his father’s fortune and real estate empire and built it more significant in the 1980’s until he was faced with a rash of failures and bankruptcies in the early 1990’s. He has been married three times due to infidelity issues. He was blackballed from borrowing money from major U.S. banks due to his lack of trustworthiness. He bankrupted several other businesses that he tried to get into and had his for-profit university shut down by the courts due to fraud. He started a family foundation, but he got caught misusing donated funds and that foundation was shut down and he and his sons were barred from serving on any private or public non-profit boards. Oh, his NYC penthouse apartment has gold-plated toilets. I can see how Donald Trump relates to the common working man instead of Joe Biden.
Trump is just a carnival barker, but the regime hates him and becomes increasingly illegitimate as they last out.
He is not just a carnival barker but a self-promoter driven by power and money. He has never been accountable to anything or anyone. Thus, nothing through his lens is larger than his ID, not country, God, or just decency.
I couldn’t have said your first paragraph any better. It’s the “virtue signalling, inclusive” crowd who fail to take the time to get to understand Trump and separate the style from the substance.
What substance ?
Hopefully American Democracy and Ukraine can survive a Trump presidency / dictatorship.
American Democracy is already dead. Did you not notice the ruling elites are using the judicial system to try to stop their main political rival? And jailing dissidents? And that unelected networks of intel people are actually running the country?
And hopefully Ukraine will implode. At least to the extent that the Banderists are finished. Talk about a lack of Democracy. Cancel ALL political opposition parties and media, cancel the elections. Yeah we are supporting “democracy”. Wake up.
All I see is a mob that was lead by a corrupt president trying to hold onto power, broke the law and now they are being held accountable for the laws they broke. Not sure what the issue is with upholding the law. If Trump didn’t do anything to break the law then he should be able to defend himself in a court of law and prove his innocence.
You are not only blind, you are ignorant, bias, and short sited. How many wars did Trump start? The Biden Regime is destroying liberty, the rule of law, foreign relations, our monetary system, our culture. The Democrats hate America and it shows.
How that ? Biden did start no wars.
The people who control Biden did. Do you not realize that INSISTING that Ukraine, which has a LONG LONG history with Russia, and where the capital was called Kyian Rus, join NATO was the proximate cause of the 2022 invasion? Or that the Coup that the US under Obama, with Biden as the Ukraine point man, in 2014 pushed on Ukraine to regime change the pro-russian ELECTED leader was the earlier cause?
The Biden entity started that war. And insists on continuing it
Many countries have a long history with their neighboring countries today. Prior to WWII, European borders had changed with every war. This is exactly the point! Post WWII the world was reordered and multi-national organizations were put in place to ensure that the world does not return to the rampant nationalism that led to two world wars. Nations were to be sovereign and border were to be honored. Should disputes arise, international courts will settle those differences, and multi-lateral organizations will ensure free and fair elections if both parties agree. The Soviet Union flaunted that global rules-based order by seizing control of the parts of Eastern Europe that it liberated from the Nazis. Then, the Soviet Union used its military superiority to expand that reach by invading Hungary in the 1950s and building the Berlin Wall in the 1960s. This was the root of the Cold War and the original purpose of NATO’s formation. When the Soviet Union began to disolve in the late 1980’s the nations, including Ukraine gained independence and sovereign nation legal status. At that point, Russia had no legitimate claim on any of these former Soviet satellite countries. Ukraine agreed to give up its nuclear weapons in the mid-1990s in exchange for security guarantees from both Russia and the United States. Ukraine began to lean toward aligning itself with the EU as opposed to Russia in the early 2000s. Yanukovych was elected President and he ran on a platform that supported Ukraine seeking membership to the EU and NATO, which was a majority opinion of the voters. Soon after being elected he began to slow walk EU and NATO ascendence. By 2014 it became very clear that Yanukovych had abandoned the pursuit of EU and NATO membership. This is why he ended being thrown out of power and he showed where his allegence was by fleeing to Russia.
In America no one has to prove their innocence. The prosecution has to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Democrats aren’t upholding the law. They are selectively weaponizing the law, while selectively protecting their own from the law. Democrats are actually interfering in an election, all the way up to Biden, with Wade in Georgia, consulting with the White House.
Trump was illegally spied on by the FBI and intel community. Those are the people trying to hold onto power. The government is corrupt and you a turning a blind eye to it.
Are you an idiot or do you just speak like one ?
American never was a democracy, and I don’t understand why people keep using that word. It was set up as a Representative Republic. Democracy is an awful method of governing that often results in mass violence and death (pick one of the French Revolutions for a case study). Absolute democracy subjects everyone to the impulsive emotional whims of the masses. There will always be a hierarchy pulling the strings of power. Just how we humans are wired.
“…Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard…”
H. L. Mencken
lol
That why Michigan’s Attorney General wants to be able to enter homes without a warrant for people who…not sell drugs, hold children as sex slaves, murder people, commit espionage. but…home school. As if unionized public school teachers are any good. King George III was never that bad.
You left out the number 1 reason: Too many believe what they are told
So you have the extreme left and right ticked off – lol. Seems like you are doing something right. Keep up the good work.
Why isn’t 100% disapproval rate?
The worst in history handily beating Jimmy Carter
How so? America’s economy has some of the best growth rates in the world when compared to the other advanced economies.
America’s economy only has a positive growth rate AT ALL because of the nearly $2 Trillion government spending deficit.
And most of that has a negative multiplier so in 3 years the potential output domestically will be closer to zero than the 1% it currently sits at
“We” are in 5 wars and 2 more massively expensive and inflationary proxy wars and it is MY FUKIN MONEY.
“We” are WAY PAST up to out eyeballs in debt and inflation is killing people literally and tent cities are exploding and that fucker defies the Supreme Court adding more inflation forgiving student loans with MY FUKIN MONEY. He cant walk without falling and he calls illegal FUKIN aliens in MY COUNTRY and he gaslights as he calls them NEWCOMERS after many of those FUKIN criminals kill and/or rape AMERICANS. FUCK JOE BIDEN. Is that clear enough? Should I continue?
It is really not that much money. Most money for Ukraine has been spent in the US- Ukraine got wepaons to defend itself.No, the war in Ukraine cost nearly nothing. W. Bush war’s were really expensive, which he started.
Do you know what a mirage is? The “best growth rates in the world” are a mirage fueled by trillions of deficit spending, interest payments and Fed counterfeiting.
Crooked Joe, Carter and LBJ are tied for second worst. The worst President in history, hands down, was Woodrow Wilson. Thanks to him we were gifted the Federal Reserve Board and IRS in 1913, and soon after, conscription and an unnecessary involvement in another European War.
BTHB – 👏👏👏 thx for the reminder and on another day agree 100%. Sometimes I forget and lose sight of WW and the boat anchors and lasting damage he hung around or collective necks.
He also ushered-in drug criminalization (Harrison NarcoticsTax Act) which stripped Americans of their right to self medicate.
Biden worked on lowering drug prices …
Don’t forget that Wilson also gave women the right to vote and also gave the country Prohibition.
And don’t forget about his ludicrous “Fourteen Points” which got him laughed out of the Paris Peace conference, leading to the disastrous Treaty of Versailles.
He is the worst by a mile.
The interesting thing about WW’s disastrous “14 Points” was that he was mentally incapacitated during much of the Versailles Conference and afterward for the remainder of his term. His Administration was run by his wife and surgeon. Fast forward to Crooked Joe – history may not repeat but it sure does rhyme.