President Biden is losing voters from key groups left and right, and this exodus of voters shouldn’t surprise anyone who has been paying attention. He made a lot of big promises to win in 2020 and has delivered on very few of them. Take a look at his State of the Union address, and you’ll find a long list of problems for which he failed to take responsibility..
Inflation is here to stay. Violent crime is up around the country. Biden’s chaotic withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan was nothing short of a catastrophe, with reverberations on the international stage, and with Russia’s war in Ukraine, we are again seeing the results of his failure to lead. The only thing Americans seem to be united around is their mutual disapproval of his administration’s performance — and some groups apparently have had enough.
Young, progressive Americans are steadily souring on Biden, according to The Economist. They want a president who will stick to his word, and Biden cannot meet their expectations.
In addition to the young progressives, independents are abandoning Biden in a similar fashion. They took notice early on during his time in office that he wasn’t accomplishing as much as he advertised during his campaign, according to an August 2021 poll by NBC News. Many suburban voters, another critical voting bloc, have withdrawn support from Biden as well — and the drop in suburban support is most glaring in states that will be key for Democrats this fall.
Hispanic voters are trending in the same direction. A December poll by The Wall Street Journal suggests that half of Hispanic voters would support a Republican candidate for Congress, compared to more than 60 percent of Hispanic voters who supported Democratic candidates in 2020. Just this week, the first Spanish-language conservative radio network launched. Hispanic voters are eager for more content that reflects their values.
All of these voters, it seems, are abandoning Biden because they’re tired of failure.
Democrats are likely watching his plummeting numbers with alarm — and for good reason. If these trends continue, the GOP should easily sweep the midterm elections in November. Democrats know this, in part because the voters who put Biden into the White House in 2020 aren’t likely to show up for the Democratic Party in 2022.
Biden promised to unite the country, but more than half of Americans think he is divisive. He vowed to end the pandemic; instead, he sent small businesses around the country into a financial crisis by prolonging pandemic-related restrictions. He pledged he would solve the crisis at America’s southern border, but he has just tried to hide it. He promised economic prosperity, but inflation has hit a 40-year high and gas prices just broke the national record. Ordinary Americans are bearing the brunt of this.
This kind of performance doesn’t make for a popular president, and it shouldn’t. More than half of Americans disapprove of him. Biden’s poor performance is an unflattering — but accurate — reflection of what the Democratic Party offers America.
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