Bidenās approval rating was now 37% in favor and 60% disapproved, Kornacki noted.
Itās āthe lowest approval rating since former President George W. Bushās second term,ā said Welker.
On votersā confidence in handling the U.S. economy, Kornecki pointed to Trumpās 55% rating and Bidenās 33%.
Edit: hereās the MSNBC clip with Kornacki https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1754211558631084417
And yet no one can ever say who could/would replace him. Curious.
Gavin Newsome is the obvious choice. But weāll have the same problem in '28. The DNC will want Harris in another āher turnā election and that would be a disaster. Nobody likes her, not even the people working with her.
Except Newsom loses to Trump by a bigger margin than Biden (although he seems to fare better than Harris, at least as of the most recent information I can find at a glance). I absolutely agree that if Biden wins another term and survives until the end of it, the DNC may well have a problem with Harrisāand they absolutely need to start now if theyāre going to do anything about thatābut Iāve yet to see anyone propose a candidate who consistently outperforms Biden in a hypothetical matchup against Trump. Hanging the partyās national hopes on Newsom in 4 years if Harris doesnāt fix her image problem between now and then isnāt the worst idea (assuming the Republic makes it that long), but the notion that the party should drop the sitting president in favor of an up-and-comer who performs worse than him after delegates are already being awarded strikes me as unrealistic, to be generous. To be less generous, I think in a great many cases on Lemmy, itās just outright disingenuous.
Newsom has a strong record in California to run on, the only reason heās low in the polls is heās not running and nobody knows who he is. Shit, I KNOW who he is and I still mis-spelled his name in my last reply.
Iād legit prefer someone more to the left of Biden, Sanders, Warren.
People still want to back someone far too old? Jerry Brown is still kicking around. His takedown of Whitman was the stuff of legends:
https://youtu.be/WEPlZYp5-Pk