ST HSIEH
November 20, 2023
It is not time to panic yet, but President Biden should have a backup plan. The US public needs a backup plan too. We do not want to join Trump for his “final battle,” so we need a backup plan if Trump were to beat Biden in 2024. It is going to be tough for the US and world to deal with Trump II.
With his advanced age and low public polling numbers (vs Trump), Biden should consider dropping his reelection bid as soon as possible: Time is of essence, voting date is less than one year away. It would be a historical humiliation for Biden if Trump does successfully “evict Joe Biden from the White House.” We are not suggesting that Biden should avoid any challenge, but the downside risk is so harmful, not just Biden would have to shoulder as a person but the damages to the US as a nation could mean an end to the Republic.
Biden as a senior political leader should devote his full time grooming the next generation leaders who will carry his torch and save the Republic. That is our backup plan: be a good couch rather than a struggling aging player.
Biden’s 81st Birthday Highlights Biggest Liability for 2024
Trump issues message to his supporters on ‘our final battle’
NOVEMBER 20, 2023 ELIZABETH LAWRENCE
Former President Donald Trump recently issued a message to his supporters on the upcoming 2024 election, which he referred to as “our final battle.”
“2024 is our final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the Deep State, we will expel the warmongers from our government, we will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the Communists, Marxists, and Fascists, we will throw off the sick political class that hates our Country, we will rout the Fake News Media, we will evict Joe Biden from the White House, and we will FINISH THE JOB ONCE AND FOR ALL! ia.donaldjtrump.com/,” Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social on Saturday.
Biden saw just 42% support from voters aged 18-34, the poll showed, whereas Trump saw 46% support.
“Joe Biden is at a uniquely low point in his presidency, and a significant part of this, especially within the Biden coalition, is due to how Americans are viewing his foreign policy actions,” said Democrat pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates.
Horwitt teamed up with Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies for the survey.
“This poll is a stunner, and it’s stunning because of the impact the Israel-Hamas war is having on Biden,” McInturff added.
During a recent episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, Rogan called Trump, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and American singer Kid Rock the “Right Wing Avengers.”
Opinion
Voices: Happy birthday, President Biden. Time to panic about your poll numbers
Eric Garcia
Mon, November 20, 2023
Biden sees 15-point drop in support among young voters
CBS News Videos
Mon, November 20, 2023 at 3:00 PM PST
Biden’s Not-So-Happy Birthday
Dems close to panic over Biden – Another weekend, another set of seriously lousy polls for President Joe Biden in his likely (but who really knows right now) reelection match-up with former President Donald Trump.
Biden, who turns 81 today, is the oldest sitting president and thus the oldest to seek re-election. And he now trails Trump both in key swing states and in the latest NBC News national poll.
The Prez hit a new low of just 40 percent approval in the NBC poll, which also showed younger voters moving toward Trump. Other polls show a much bigger lead for former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in a hypothetical match-up with Biden.
Top Biden allies continue to tell nervous Democratic donors(and newsletter writers) not to worry, that Biden has trailed before, as former President Barack Obama did in 2011. “I understand the freak-out, we are great at freak-outs,” one former Biden official told us over the weekend. “But what is the backup plan? There isn’t one. And won’t be one.”
That’s largely true for the moment since Biden’s only real current opponents are afterthoughts who trail the incumbent by 60 or 70 points. Barely worth mentioning their names,
The real backup plan, such as it is, consists mostly of outgoing West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (beloved by centrist Wall Street types; hated by the left) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (mistrusted by moderate Democrats).
Democratic operatives we spoke to in the past couple of days said the moment anyone on Team Biden opens the window just an inch to the possibility of alternative nominees, millions of dollars would flood in to Newsom, Manchin and perhaps others we haven’t even thought of yet.
One big Wall Street mover in Democratic fundraising circles said of Team Biden: “Nobody knows what they are thinking. They kind of went in the White House with the idea of maybe being one term, beating Trump, rebuilding the economy and beating Covid. Restoring some kind of order. And they did that. So maybe get out of the way for someone who can win?”
Another Dem-leaning exec at a big Wall Street bank said: “It’s kind of getting a little late looking at these polls. I know he’s been down before; so was Obama. But these polls are terrible, and it’s hard to see how they improve given concerns about his age and the economy doing better but still kind of bad.”