USA (Washington Insider Magazine)— Democrats in several states increasingly worry about President Biden’s low support ratings. They are anxious that voters’ continued antipathy toward his leadership could damage the party and the White House and weigh down the contenders sharing the ballot with him.
These Democrats are upset that the Biden campaign is still creating a solid organization in the crucial states likely to decide next year’s presidential election. They indicate polling numbers revealing Mr. Biden lagging far behind Democratic candidates. It includes working among essential groups of voters, including Black and Latino Americans.
In Arizona, Democratic polling has seen Mr. Biden failing Hispanic voters to former President Donald J. Trump in Maricopa County. It includes Phoenix, which represents more than 60 percent of voters in the state. In Michigan, Mr. Biden’s approval rating is an impressive 15 percentage points after that of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. He is a fellow Democrat and has lost the floor with Black and Arab American voters. In Georgia, officials express the Biden economic message has not broken through to voters. Because voters have noticed Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, takes praise for many of the new schemes in the state.
“I’m extremely concerned,” said Mayor Van Johnson of Savannah, Ga. “President Biden is a man of great character. Certainly, he’s a president of great accomplishments. But that is not translating to southeast Georgia.”
For months, Mr. Biden’s top associates and most dynamic aides have urged that the race will change once voters comprehend that Mr. Trump will be the assumptive Republican nominee. At that point, the Biden team claims, the campaign will convert from a referendum on Mr. Biden to a choice between the president and Mr. Trump. A label of right-wing Republicanism has lost most essential elections since he won the 2016 election.
Mr. Trump has been charged with 91 felonies and has been blocked from the ballot in Colorado. The former president is also prepared to sit for the first of his four criminal trials in March. Those events have supported his appeal among Republican primary voters. The Biden team considers they will turn off independent voters.
Mayor Johnson, among others, is still determining. He called the choice statement“a passive strategy” and said Republicans were far more enthusiastic about next year’s election than Democrats.“I don’t see any passion, excitement, nothing,” he said. “It might be a situation of too little, too late.”
The positive sign for Mr. Biden is that his party has been on a winning line since Mr. Trump took office in 2017. Since then, Democrats have succeeded election after election. It includes essential governor’s and Senate elections. They exceeded polling and historical tendencies in last year’s midterms.
In recent weeks, Biden finally revealed staff hires in three general election-contesting states. Critical economic indicators are enhancing, even though voters have not praised Mr. Biden for that progress.
Some signals indicate the campaign is shifting to a more robust messaging strategy. On Thursday, Julie Chávez Rodríguez, Mr. Biden’s campaign supervisor, revalead a memo titled “Why Joe Biden Will Win in 2024.” In it, she said that “thousands of staff would be dedicated to Team Biden-Harris by early summer, and that, in the new year, Mr. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris would devote more energy to drawing a contrast between themselves and Mr. Trump.”
“There’s been no lack of coverage on polls about Joe Biden,” Ms. Chávez Rodríguez wrote. “But it’s important to remember Donald Trump, extreme MAGA Republicans, and their dangerous ideas are extremely unpopular.”
Democratic officials and strategists believe it will be more challenging for their party’s candidates to leave behind Mr. Biden in 2024 when he leads their ticket. Last week, Democratic state party chairs gathered in Washington, and some conveyed a disturbing new trend they had been listening to. “Some young voters are blaming Mr. Biden for the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision ending the constitutional right to abortion because he was the president when the court made its decision.”