Trump Increasing Lead Over Biden In Battleground States
These are unsettling times for national Democrats as their flag bearer falls even further behind his leading challenger. President Joe Biden now trails former President Donald Trump in four out of six battleground states.
This news was first revealed by the New York Times, which lamented Trump’s dominance of the top issue on voters’ minds. Concerning the U.S. economy, Americans trust the 45th president by a 59% to 37% margin over Biden.
Trump held a 22-point lead over the incumbent when respondents were asked under whose presidency their personal finances would thrive.
But it’s the six swing states that undoubtedly have Democrats wondering if they need to find an alternative to their flailing leader.
According to the latest Emerson poll, Trump leads among Georgia voters 49% to 41% and in Pennsylvania 49% to 45%. He is ahead of Biden 47% to 44% in Nevada and 46% to 44% in Arizona.
The frontrunners are tied in Wisconsin and Biden has a two-point lead, 45% to 43%, in Michigan. Biden flipped Michigan to Democrats in 2020 after the state sided with Trump in 2016.
The enigma for Democrats is how their sitting president is unable to gain traction against a candidate they indicted four times. Trump has skipped the GOP debates due to his prohibitive lead among likely GOP primary voters.
Biden is also getting pushback from within his own party over his support for Israel in its war with Hamas.
Though disenchanted Democrats are not likely to run out and vote for Trump over this position, it could make them far less enthusiastic to campaign for and cast a ballot for the incumbent.
And momentum is clearly on the side of the Republican challenger. Earlier in 2023, Biden held slim leads in most national surveys over Trump in hypothetical one-on-one matchups.
Then the deluge of Democratic indictments began.
Nothing causes Americans to circle the wagons quite like unjust persecution. Democrats may come to rue the day they sent their radical prosecutors against the former president as his popularity only increased with every frivolous legal attack.
And now he is in an enviable position in several swing states. If 2020 proved anything, it’s that the left will not stand for four more years of Trump in the White House. Next November’s election should be the most scrutinized in U.S. history.
