Panic Time for Democrats Biden is losing to Trump in every poll as Super Tuesday arrives.
The bedwetter caucus is back, to borrow the dismissive phrase from Barack Obama strategist David Plouffe about Democrats who fret about President Biden’s re-election odds. A spate of pre-Super Tuesday polls suggest that fretting could soon turn to wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Four major polls rolled out in the past few days, and Mr. Biden is losing to Donald Trump in all of them. He’s down two points in a head-to-head matchup in the Wall Street Journal and Fox News surveys, more if you include third- or fourth-party candidates. He’s down five points in the Siena-New York Times poll, and he’s getting crushed in the swing states in the Bloomberg News survey.
Worse is the public mood. A quarter or less of Americans think the country is moving in the right direction, and they think Mr. Biden’s Presidency has done more harm than good. They think Mr. Biden is too old to be President, and they view Mr. Trump’s Presidency far more favorably than they do Mr. Biden’s.
Most important, Mr. Biden is viewed even more unfavorably than Mr. Trump in the polls (59% to 57% unfavorable in the Fox survey, which is Mr. Biden’s best showing). This is hard to do considering that Mr. Trump never cracked 50% approval in the Gallup poll during his Presidency. In the 2020 campaign, Mr. Biden never trailed Mr. Trump in polling averages.
This is a perilous position for the incumbent this close to the election. Democrats are counting on a boffo State of the Union speech this week, the public giving him more credit for the economy as inflation eases, the abortion issue, a friendly press, and Mr. Trump’s well-known capacity for self-destruction, perhaps including a felony conviction.
But collars are tightening among our friends on the left. If the polls are this bad for Mr. Biden in June or July, the pressure will rise for the President to do what’s best for the country and yield to a younger nominee.
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