Biden 2024

oliver clotheshoffe wrote:

Gavin Newsom? Oh I wish they would run him, he fucked up California so bad there's no way anyone there would vote for him. Of course they won't vote for Republicans either so all of California's electoral votes will probably go to the Libertarians handing Trump victory in the process.

Forget Newsom - here's a real contender:

Gen Z Leaving Biden, Democrats As Younger Americans Trend Conservative
Jon Dougherty, September 10, 2023

President Joe Biden and his Democrats are lurching so far to the left that one of the party’s primary voting blocs is bailing on them at an increasingly rapid pace, which likely will impact future elections beginning next year.

According to a new analysis by researchers at Harvard University, the 18-29-year-old demographic, or Generation Z, is trending less liberal and more toward conservatism, which is horrible news for Biden and his party.

John Della Volpe, the polling director at the Harvard Kennedy Institute of Politics, found in his study that younger Americans are shifting further away from the Democratic Party, while a separate study found that high school senior boys are also becoming more conservative.

“Nearly every sign that made me confident in historic levels of youth participation in 2018, 2020, and 2022 — is now flashing red,” Della Volpe wrote in his analysis of 2024, according to The Hill.

He added: “The ground is more fertile for voting when youth believe voting makes a tangible difference.”

In 2019, almost 39 percent of the participants in the Harvard Youth Poll said that they identified as Democrats. But, by the following spring, the number decreased to 35 percent. Meanwhile, the proportion of young voters who identified as independents or “unaffiliated with a major party” rose from 36 percent in 2019 to 40 percent in 2023. And, the analysis found the percentage of youth voters who identified as Republicans rose slightly from 23 percent to 24 percent, according to The Hill.

Also, Della Volpe discovered that the percentage of respondents who said they would definitely vote in next year’s election fell from 55 percent at this point in the 2020 cycle to 51 percent now.

Volpe wrote “daylight’s burning” for the Democrats, who need young voters “to win today and maintain and grow an electoral edge in the years ahead.”

Meanwhile, as Fox News reported, high school senior boys are becoming more conservative while girls are becoming more liberal, according to a University of Michigan study.

Twelfth-grade boys exhibit a nearly twofold preference for identifying as conservative compared to liberal, and this gap has been progressively widening in recent years. Conversely, girls in the same grade identify themselves as liberal at a rate of approximately 30%, which marks a significant increase from the levels observed in 2015, the study found.

Psychotherapist Thomas Kersting shared his thoughts about the study’s findings last week during a “Fox & Friends” segment.

“12th-grade boys are kind of seeing through this. We’re creating this idea that if you’re a male, there’s something wrong with that and that you’re bad,” Kersting said.

“Then you have politicians out there saying, like, the number one problem in America is White men and things of that nature. So I think young, 12th-grade boys are kind of seeing through this,” he added.

The current figures are a shift from previous years when young men and women graduating high school leaned left in similar percentages.

“Everything is about advancing women and minorities and so forth,” Kersting said, suggesting that could be behind what is driving more young men to become conservative.

“I see this a lot at my private practice. A lot of young guys are falling behind. They feel like they can’t advance. So there’s nothing really there to help advance them because the idea is that men have always dominated, which is partially true,” he said.

“And we want women and everybody to advance, but we can’t do it at the expense of another group,” he added.

As for Biden, Democratic voters are becoming increasingly disenfranchised with him.

A survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs found that Americans were more likely to say that Biden’s age would be a concern than former President Trump, who is only a few years younger than the president.

The poll found that less than one-third — 32 percent — of respondents believe that Biden is mentally fit to serve as President, while 68 percent expressed doubts about his mental acuity.

Approval For Biden’s Economic Policies Tanks to Lowest Level Of Presidency
Jon Dougherty, October 3, 2023

While President Joe Biden and the White House continue to spread a positive message about his “Bidenomics” policies, a majority of Americans aren’t buying it and have responded in a brutal fashion.

“Biden’s economic approval ratings have hit an all-time low as his administration continues to push the claim that ‘Bidenomics’ is working, according to a poll released by Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) on Monday,” The Daily Caller reported, citing the survey’s results.

“Approximately 56% of Americans disapprove of Biden’s economic policies as opposed to 24% who approve, a swift drop from the reported 50%-31% in September, according to IBD. The low ratings underscore the problems straining the U.S. economy as inflation continues to rise while wages are by and large failing to keep pace,” the outlet continued.

During Biden’s first two years in office, the inflation rate rose dramatically, rising to a 40-year high of 9 percent. It has since fallen to around 3.2 percent, but it rose again in August to 3.7 percent. The Biden administration, meanwhile, has added $5 trillion to the national debt, which is sitting at $33 trillion, or about double the $2.48 trillion increase that occurred during then-President Donald Trump’s tenure.

But the White House is refusing to acknowledge reality.

“Bidenomics is working: Unemployment is near historic lows, inflation has fallen about two-thirds, wages are rising and job satisfaction is at a record high,” a White House spokesperson previously claimed in a statement to the Daily Caller.

“The midterms and recent special elections showed Americans favor the president’s vision for growing the economy from the middle out and the bottom up over congressional Republicans’ trickle-down economics,” the statement continued.

The Daily Caller added:

Only 16% of Americans say their wages are keeping pace with inflation, and 61% living paycheck-to-paycheck, according to IBD. The IBD/TIPP financial stress index jumped 2.4 points to 70.5, higher than the 69.8 reported in April 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic; any reading above 50 indicates rising stress.

Investors have turned from generally positive to negative on their approval of Biden, going from 56% approval in September to 45% in October, according to the survey.

Approval of Biden’s overall performance as president has dropped from 41% in September to 36% in October; Biden’s approval ratings sat at 55% on Jan. 21, 2021, his first day in office, according to IBD and Reuters.

All of this appears to be working to Trump’s advantage. Late last month, an ABC News/Washington Post poll saw Trump with a nearly 10-point lead over Biden, 51-42 percent, with the president’s overall performance ratings extremely poor.

An NBC News poll, meanwhile, found Biden’s disapproval rating at 56 percent, one of the highest of his presidency, while 44 percent of respondents said they are worse off now under Biden than before. That is the highest percentage since 1986, under then-President Ronald Reagan.

“A majority of voters polled in the Post-ABC poll felt the economy; prices of food, energy and gas; the unemployment rate; and average wages were all either ‘poor’ or ‘not so good,’” Axios reported.

“91% agreed the cost of food was a negative. 87% felt the same about gas and energy prices,” the report continued. “74% are concerned about the state of the U.S. economy, and 75% about wages.”

In a survey analysis, ABC News’ Gary Langer noted: “A variety of factors may be at play. Biden’s poor performance ratings, the extent of economic discontent, the immigration crisis and doubts about his age clearly are relevant.”

He added: “All have been the subject of extensive recent news coverage, focusing public discourse on negatives for the president.”

ABC News host Martha Raddatz and the network’s senior political analyst appeared shocked by the findings.

“These numbers are simply staggering for the sitting president,” Rick Klein, ABC News’s political director, said on Sunday as he broke down the results. “Forty-four percent of people in this poll say they are not as well off as they were at the start of the Biden administration two and a half years ago. Those are the worst numbers that we’ve seen in our ‘ABC News/Washington Post’ polling. And it’s a question we’ve been asking going back to the Reagan administration.”

Continuing, Klein said: “And when – when you dive into the big questions around the economy, we know President Biden has been out there trying to make the case, unemployment is low, he’s been talking about how inflation has been easing, but people aren’t buying it. You covered some of the reasons why. Gas prices, food prices, grocery prices, and the like. Right now, on the big picture in the economy, 74 percent of the country, that’s about three-quarters of Americans say the economy is either not so good or downright poor.”

They're already playing Joe Biden commercials here for the 2024 election... but now at least I know exactly where the mute button on the remote is. Looks like I'm in for a lot of peace and quiet for the next 11 months.