Democrat strategist David Axelrod, who led efforts to get Obama elected, suggests Biden drop out of 2024 after release of damning poll
The political strategist who propelled Joe Biden to vice president in 2008 has suggested the president should consider quitting the 2024 race after another brutal poll.
David Axelrod pointed to Sunday’s polls The New York Times and Siena College showing the 80-year-old case against Donald Trump in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
“Only Joe Biden can make this decision. If he continues to run, he will become the Democratic Party’s nominee,” Axelrod said on X, formerly Twitter.
‘What he has to decide is whether that is wise; Whether it is in HIS interest or in that of the country?’
Former Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod (right) introduces then-Vice President Biden at an event in 2011. Now, after recent polls show Biden trailing, Axelrod suggested dropping out of the 2024 election campaign.
The poll of 3,662 registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin was conducted between October 22 and November 3. The margin of error for each state is between 4.4 and 4.8 percentage points.
Biden is ahead only in Wisconsin by 2 percentage points, and is falling among registered voters by a margin of four to 10 percentage points in the five other states, according to the poll.
Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania were four of the states in which the Democrat defeated then-President Donald Trump in their 2020 White House showdown.
Axelrod, who is known for his work on former President Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns and was a senior adviser in his administration, said of the data: “This will send vibrations of doubt through the party – not ‘bedwetting.’ but legitimate concern.”
“Yes, there are also risks in changing course now because there is little time left for a primary campaign – and campaigns are how we test candidates.”
“Trump is a dangerous, unhinged demagogue whose blatant disregard for the rules, norms, laws and institutions of democracy should be disqualifying. But the stakes of miscalculation here are too dramatic to ignore,” he said.
In 2019, Axelrod said The New Yorker“Joe Biden might be the strongest candidate because he would cut into some of those Trump strength areas.”
Axelrod is credited with revolutionizing modern campaigning due to his winning media management strategy for the Obama and Biden campaigns in 2008 and 2012.
In 2009, Vice President Joe Biden speaks with senior adviser David Axelrod during a meeting in the Oval Office
The same poll showed that two-thirds of the electorate sees the country going in the wrong direction under Biden.
Only 37 percent of people say they trust Biden with the economy, compared to 59 percent in Trump — which is one of the biggest gaps on the issue, the polls suggested.
Biden’s boast of “Bidenomics” also falls short — with a measly two percent saying the economy was “excellent” during his term.
According to statistics, young voters under thirty prefer Biden by just one percentage point – and men prefer Trump by double the margin than women prefer Biden.
Voters at all income levels believed that policies under Biden had harmed them personally (18 points disadvantage), while Trump’s policies had helped them (17 points advantage).
According to the data, Biden’s senile age of 80 also played a major role. 71 percent of pollsters – from every demographic group – said he was “too old.”
By comparison, only 39 percent thought Trump, 77, was too old.
Voters also favored Trump over Biden on immigration, national security and today’s Israel Palestine by 12, 12 and 11 points, respectively.
Meanwhile, Biden’s appeal to Hispanic voters is in the single digits and traditionally Democratic black voters now register 22 percent support for Trump.
“Gallup predicted an eight-point loss for President Obama, but could win handily a year later. We will win in 2024 by putting our heads down and doing the work, not by worrying about a poll,” Kevin Munoz, a spokesman for Biden’s campaign, told The New York Times.
DailyMail.com found from 1,000 voters in a hypothetical 2024 head-to-head poll that Trump has a one-point lead over Biden.
New polls from the New York Times and Sienna Collage show Biden falling behind in five of the six key battleground states
“Only Joe Biden can make this decision. If he continues to run, he will become the Democratic Party’s nominee,” Axelrod said on X
One year after Election Day on November 5, 2024, Biden’s approval rating in Gallup is at 37 percent.
That is lower than his six immediate predecessors – Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George HW Bush and Ronald Reagan – at the same pace.
Only Jimmy Carter, who was at 32 percent, was more unpopular than Biden with a year to go, and Carter subsequently lost by a landslide.
Biden has raised concerns about his age, with recent blunders including looking confused about how to leave a stage at events and forgetting to tell stories.
On October 14, he was removed from the stage by his wife Jill after making remarks at a Human Rights Campaign dinner.
Video showed the First Lady rejoining her husband and helping him leave the stage after the couple delivered keynote speeches in Washington, DC.
The president turned to his right and waved to the audience, before Jill touched his arm and led him in the opposite direction.
On September 20, the 80-year-old president argued with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the United Nations.
Before Biden delivered his speech, he came across a two-metre-tall Brazilian flag, causing it to waver as he approached the stage.
Before delivering a speech to Brazil’s president in September, Biden bumped into a two-meter-high flag at the United Nations
Two days later, video showed the president appearing to be lost as he walked off stage and asked the crowd how to leave.
After his remarks at the Global Fund Conference, he began to leave the stage before stopping abruptly and looking around with an appearance of confusion on his face.
He then appeared to ask the people on the floor how to get off the stage and took a few stuttering steps.
In September, at a private fundraising event in New York, he told the same story twice within minutes about how Charlottesville inspired him to run in 2020.