Bidenā€™s approval rating was now 37% in favor and 60% disapproved, Kornacki noted.

Itā€™s ā€œthe lowest approval rating since former President George W. Bushā€™s second term,ā€ said Welker.

On votersā€™ confidence in handling the U.S. economy, Kornecki pointed to Trumpā€™s 55% rating and Bidenā€™s 33%.

Edit: hereā€™s the MSNBC clip with Kornacki https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1754211558631084417

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      Gavin Newsome is the obvious choice. But weā€™ll have the same problem in '28. The DNC will want Harris in another ā€œher turnā€ election and that would be a disaster. Nobody likes her, not even the people working with her.

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        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 Harrisā€“and they absolutely need to start now if theyā€™re going to do anything about thatā€“but Iā€™ve yet to see anyone propose a candidate who consistently outperforms Biden in a hypothetical matchup against Trump. Hanging the partyā€™s national hopes on Newsom in 4 years if Harris doesnā€™t fix her image problem between now and then isnā€™t 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, itā€™s just outright disingenuous.

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          Newsom has a strong record in California to run on, the only reason heā€™s low in the polls is heā€™s 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.

          Iā€™d 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