An Emerson College poll released yesterday revealed that while less than half of Joe Biden’s supporters were “very or extremely excited” to support their candidate for the presidency, almost two-thirds of Donald Trump’s supporters were. The numbers were 45 percent to 64 percent.
Conversely nearly a quarter of Biden’s supporters were “not that excited” about their candidate, while just one in seven of Trump’s were.
But when asked whom they thought would win in November — regardless of whom they supported — nearly six in 10 said Trump would win. The numbers were 57 percent predicting Trump’s victory versus just 43 percent for Biden.
The results echoed similar results from Rasmussen Reports, also released on Wednesday: 60 percent of likely U.S. voters say they are excited about the prospect of a showdown between Trump and Biden, while 34 percent said they will simply be voting for what they perceived to be “the lesser of two evils.” In that poll of 1,000 likely voters taken last week, Rasmussen reported that 75 percent of Republicans were a lot more enthusiastic over a Trump-Biden matchup than Democrats were, at just 57 percent.
Oddsmakers are uniformly predicting a Trump win. All six that are tracked by RealClearPolitics — Betfair, Betsson, Bovada, BWin, Smarkets, and SportingBet — show Trump beating Biden by anywhere from three to eight points.
Biden’s baggage going into the Democrat National Convention continues to grow. Not counting his numerous verbal gaffes — Tucker Carlson has assembled a frightening montage of Biden’s more recent gaffes here — Biden faces history as well: No one who has served for more than 15 years in the Senate (Biden has served 36 years) has ever won the presidency. Only one president has gone from the vice presidency to private life and then returned to become president in U.S. history (Richard Nixon).
And then there’s the “14-year rule”: “No one gets elected president who needs longer than 14 years to get from his first Senate victory to the presidency,” according to Bush speechwriter John McConnell. It took Biden 36 years.
Finally, Biden is celebrating April as “Sexual Assault Awareness Month” by remaining silent over increasingly credible charges by a former staffer, Tara Reade, that he assaulted her sexually while she was working for him in 1993.
The liberal-left media are putting pressure on Biden to say something — anything — to respond to her charges. On Wednesday the New York Times urged him to make an official statement over the charges, while an editorial in the Washington Post said, “Tara Reade deserves to be heard, and voters deserve to hear her. They deserve to hear from Joe Biden, too.”
At press time, silence reigns from the Biden camp.
It’s little wonder then that most Democrats (according to Rasmussen) think their party is going to hold an “open convention” in which delegates choose a candidate rather than follow their primary’s results.
For readers who wish more about why Democrats might throw out Biden, there’s the AnybodyButBiden.com website that provides a full array of reasons.
Image of Joe Biden: Screenshot from joebiden.com
An Ivy League graduate and former investment advisor, Bob is a regular contributor to The New American, primarily on economics and politics. He can be reached at [email protected].
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