President Joe Biden’s campaign and Democratic allies are defending the president despite recent polls suggesting that he could lose against former President Donald Trump in a 2024 election rematch.
Biden campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz cited the 2012 re-election, when former President Barack Obama, with Biden as his running mate, won re-election to a second term in the White House.
“Predictions more than a year out tend to look a little different a year later,” Munoz said earlier this month. “Don’t take our word for it: Gallup predicted an eight point loss for President Obama only for him to win handedly a year later.”
Julie Chavez Rodriquez, Biden’s campaign manager, also wrote in a recent fundraising memo that “the year is 2011. It’s one-year out from Election Day, and the New York Times has just put out polling showing President Obama trailing significantly in battleground states.”
Despite both their claims, however, Obama was saddled with negative polling a year before his re-election in 2011, but his position was not as troublesome as Biden’s present ones.
Obama also held a narrow lead over eventual 2012 Republican contender Mitt Romney in most surveys at the time. After falling short of Romney by two points in a November poll, the incumbent was leading the then-former governor of Massachusetts by 44 to 42 percent in an early December 2011 poll by Fox News.
This comes as Biden is in danger of losing the 2024 presidential election following dissatisfaction from the public.
According to a survey conducted by Gallup late last month, support among Democratic voters slid by 11 points from September. Only 75 percent of Democrats support the president, compared to last month’s 86 percent.
Progressive Democrats are also demanding Biden to stop supporting Israel and take a firm stance against the country’s crusade in Gaza. Users of X, formerly Twitter, have taken to the social media platform to declare that they won’t vote for him next year.
“Biden’s immediate and decisive show of support for Israel following the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas appears to have turned off some in his own party, resulting in Democrats’ worst assessment of the president since he took office,” said Gallup in its report.
