Trump is Leading Biden in the Polls in Five Key States.
If Democrats think this election is going to be a walk in the park, the data would suggest otherwise.
As much as we might not want it, we’re getting the rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump this upcoming election, and thus far the 2024 election season has unfolded about exactly as we might have expected. Voters seem entirely checked out, and neither of them are really offering anything of substance to the voters to draw them back in. Trump’s rallies have devolved into the ramblings of a bitter old man who struggles to make sense, and Joe Biden’s record as President has been lackluster to say the least.
All that said, those of us on the left can’t exactly say they’re surprised to see that Donald Trump is leading Joe Biden in five key states.
Nate Cohn with The New York Times writes:
Donald J. Trump leads President Biden in five crucial battleground states, a new set of polls shows, as a yearning for change and discontent over the economy and the war in Gaza among young, Black and Hispanic voters threaten to unravel the president’s Democratic coalition.
The surveys by The New York Times, Siena College and The Philadelphia Inquirer found that Mr. Trump was ahead among registered…
