Most Democrats want Biden to drop out, but overall race is static, poll finds
Most Democrats want Biden to drop out, but overall race is static, poll finds
Link to the PDF poll they're citing in the article
- If the 2024 presidential election were being held today, for whom would you vote? (IF UNDECIDED OR SKIPPED QUESTION) Who would > you lean toward? Biden Trump Someone else Would not vote Skip Q2b 7/9/24 39 39 6 16 *
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All of a sudden it makes perfect sense why the news is freaking out so hard
It’s a fucking CATASTROPHE that Biden could be tied dead even with someone as objectively horrifying as Trump
I can only imagine what dizzying height he must have fallen from down to 39/39 after that shit show of the debate, like something approaching what would make sense for someone who improved wages for working people, spent a trillion dollars on climate change, finally did good things for the American people for the first time since the ACA if we’re being kind and since Lyndon Johnson if we’re not, and running against a literal pants shitting moron who openly wants to destroy America
4/30/24 38 40 7 14 1
Er
Wait what were we freaking out about again?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Most Democrats nationwide say that President Biden should end his reelection campaign based on his performance in the presidential debate two weeks ago, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll.
The poll finds Biden and former president Donald Trump in a dead heat in the contest for the popular vote, with both candidates receiving 46 percent support among registered voters.
The president and his campaign team have spent the week seeking to enlist support from important Democratic Party constituencies, including the Congressional Black Caucus, labor leaders and key progressive legislators, but with limited success.
Many Democrats fear that, if Biden continues his candidacy, Trump could have an easier path to victory and that Republicans could end up holding majorities in both the House and Senate, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) said during an interview on CNN on Tuesday night.
The Post-ABC-Ipsos poll finds Biden holds smaller advantages over Trump on which candidate “represents your personal values” and whether he will “protect American democracy.”
The Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll was conducted July 5-9 among 2,431 U.S. adults through the Ipsos KnowledgePanel, a survey panel recruited through random sampling of households across the country.
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Who whould Lemmy like to see run in 2028?
Edit: I did not mean to reply to the bot lol
I don't really think there's any viable alternative at this point. Biden's going to have to step aside.
Your comment makes it seem as you prefer no contest to trump. It should be EITHER no viable alternative so Joe should stay OR we have a viable alternative, Joe should step aside.
I meant there's no viable alternative course of action to Biden stepping aside. I see how the original comment reads ambiguously.
A number of people on here are quick to blame the media rather than Joe Biden. I also want Joe to drop out, and apparently a bunch of people who are willing to take a poll also want a president who is mentally with it. Take an honest look at the candidate.
Edit: for clarity
Ask yourself why the question on every MSM article is about bidens age instead of trumps pedophilia, then you'll see why we like to blame the media
Because we already know we don't want trump, any time spent on discussing that is time wasted. But time spent on discussing whether biden has a chance to actually defeat trump is time well spent, because otherwise we may end up with trump.
Because that's what Democrats in Congress are talking about? Because that conversation has historical and political implications for Democrats? Because donors are dropping support for Biden daily? That shit is pretty important news when it bears weight on who is going to be the Democratic nominee. How could they not run those stories? That's not to say the mainstream media is some completely benign institution, or that it isn't going to go against it's own interests (ie, profit, or making money in general), or that every article about this situation has been warranted (like, any that call for people to not vote or vote third party are definitely in service of Trump's campaign). It absolutely serves corporate interests, which align with its own, for the most part.
But Trump being a convicted felon and yet-to-be-convicted pedophile has zero implications for Republicans and, evidently, his chance of winning the election. His electability isn't tied to his morals. We learned this in 2016. Whereas some Democrats have standards, some have fears of their own electability if they double down on Biden, and others believe that sending Biden against Trump is political suicide for the Democratic party. I'm not sure how any of that is the media's fault.
Not to attribute too much credence to the phrase, but I think it's worth considering "there's no such thing as bad publicity." Maybe the free publicity isn't so bad for Biden, no matter the light, because it's time not spent broadcasting his opponent's name into people's ears.
That's like reporting on the sunset every day. Trump is a known monster, Trump is a known dipshit, Trump is known to be a criminal. We get news when something new happens. 36 felonies was news. Being sued for his rape is news. Him being unable to keep his mouth shut wasn't news until he was given a gag order and violated it.
If they dedicated every minute to Trump's bullshit, we'd either:
We do get news about Trump each day, the Project 2025 hacked showed he was lying about being ignorant of it, what a shock. No one cares about it until "what about trump?!"
Because Biden's cognitive decline is news, while Trump's Epstien connections are not. People on social media think that the recently disclosed Epstien Grand Jury documents name Trump as a co-conspirator and accuse him of raping a 13 year old. In actuality, Trump is not mentioned in the Grand Jury filing, and they are sharing documents from a 2016 civil lawsuit that was dismissed (which doesn't mean it's not true, just that it didn't meet the burden of proof to move forward). For the record, the lawsuit was widely covered by the news at the time.
Trump admits that he was an associate of Epstien, but his official story is that he and Epstien had a falling out before his 2005 arrest, and he knew nothing of his human trafficking. I'm sure that's bullshit, but we have no evidence to contradict it. So, there are no MSM articles about Trump's pedophilia because there is no news to report on it, or even evidence that it ever occurred.
It's because Trump being a terrible person is the expectation and there has also been no tangible evidence of that particular crime. Biden knowing wtf is going on, being functional after 4PM and having debate skills comparable to 4 years ago is also the expectation. He did not meet it.