President Joe Biden’s reelection hopes could hinge upon winning the key battleground state of Michigan but a still rancid economy and a voter revolt over Gaza are a sign of trouble for the White House, and a new poll is a very bad sign.
Biden has always been able to count on union workers to turn out when he needs them but the ongoing wrath of pro-Hamas Democrats in the heavily Muslim Detroit suburb of Dearborn could offset that advantage if they stay home in November.
The loss of a considerable chunk of reliably Democrat voters would prove to be fatal to the octogenarian president’s desire to stay in the White House until he’s 87 years old, and the poll by CNN shows that he’s getting clobbered in the Wolverine State.
CNN POLL: “These Michigan numbers — these are NOT GOOD” for Biden pic.twitter.com/Z3Y9WolpDw
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 22, 2024
According to the just-released poll, presumptive GOP nominee Donald J. Trump has now opened up an 8-point lead on Biden in Michigan where he leads 50-42 with women split despite the Biden-Harris campaign’s focus on abortion, and the former president leading among two key demographics, younger voters and independents.
Trump also continues to pull voters of color in a sign that, for all of Biden’s focus on race-baiting, black voters are feeling the pain from the prolonged inflation that has marked his presidency. Unfortunately for the White House, there’s just no way to overcome the reality that black people have to go to the grocery store, too.
CNN: “The decline in support for Joe Biden among voters of color in Michigan is something we’ve been seeing in state after state after state…”
Biden “has some BIG problems.” pic.twitter.com/b0Wxp8UlQk
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 22, 2024
In more bad news for Biden, the CNN poll also shows that he’s tied Trump in another “blue wall” state vital to Democrat hopes: Pennsylvania. Good ol’ Joe from Scranton is dead even with the former president, 46-46 in the state that elected a borderline to the U.S. Senate in 2022.
Having taken a much harder stance toward Israel and a ceasefire in Gaza since over 100,000 Democrats led by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and her younger sister sent him a message by voting “uncommitted” in the primary, the administration has had no luck in getting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to budge. In fact, Democrat hostility seems to be having the opposite effect.
In a move to throw Bibi under the bus, a U.S.-backed UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire went down in flames on Friday when Russia and China vetoed it, with the two adversaries not cooperating with throwing Biden a lifeline in Michigan.
Perhaps even worse is that Netanyahu is prepared to defy Biden and jittery Democrats on the invasion of the final Hamas stronghold of Rafah which could be a bloodbath, further infuriating the Michigan Muslims and other anti-Israel elements of the Democrat base.
“And I told him that I hope we will do it with the support of the U.S., but if we have to – we will do it alone,” Netanyahu said after meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken who also stands to lose his job if Michigan Muslims don’t turn out.
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