A sense of vindication swept through the White House and Biden campaign on Wednesday after Democrats’ strong showing in off-year elections, despite a slew of recent polls showing U.S. President Joe Biden’s popularity is low.
“Pollsters, pundits, if I had $1, for every time they’ve counted Joe Biden or the Democrats out, I probably wouldn’t have to work anymore,” Sam Cornale, executive director of the Democratic National Committee, told Reuters. Democrats “won time and again, and we will next November,” he predicted.
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Biden faced questions this week, including from some in his own Democratic Party, about the wisdom of his 2024 re-election bid after a series of weak polls.
Some segments of the diverse Democratic coalition have lost faith in Biden, frustrated by his Israel stance, the lack of movement on climate change, or high prices.
In Ohio, for example, exit polls from NBC showed voters skewed Democratic on Tuesday, although Trump won the state by 8 percentage points in 2020.
Republican political strategist Mary Anna Mancuso said polls today offer little indication of what will happen in 2024 but that Tuesday’s results may spell trouble for her party.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who earlier this week noted that polls predicting a “red wave” for the Republicans in the 2020 midterms were misleading, said the latest election results bolstered Biden’s re-election argument that his policies matter most.
Harris, who appeared in the White House driveway so abruptly that she interrupted Jean-Pierre’s scheduled press conference, closed with an optimistic prediction about next November.
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