- Biden-Harris campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodríguez dismissed the dismal polling for President Joe Biden as just a ‘snapshot’
- “We are a year away from the election and so the polls are not predictive at this stage,” Chavez Rodríguez said at a press conference in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday.
- New poll has Biden’s approval at a new low of 39% – just after a separate poll showed him losing to Donald Trump in five of the six key swing states in 2024
Joe Biden’s presidential re-election team insists his terrible poll numbers and unprecedentedly low approval ratings are nothing to worry about because they are just a “snapshot” of a single moment during the campaign.
According to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday, the president’s approval rating currently stands at just 39 percent.
In addition, a separate New York Times/Siena survey published this week found Biden trailing Republican front-runner Donald Trump in five of the six swing states key to securing a 2024 victory.
With both terrible polls emerging within days of each other, campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodríguez is dismissing the devastating results.
“We are a year away from the election and so the polls are not predictive at this stage,” Chavez Rodríguez said at a press conference in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday.
Biden-Harris campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodríguez said at a news conference in Miami on Tuesday that the team is not concerned about the declining poll numbers for President Joe Biden because it is just a “snapshot in time.”
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday shows Biden’s approval has fallen to a new low of 39%
“I think we can look at some of the historical data on this, whether it’s President Obama, you know, this time in 2011 the headline is, ‘Obama is toast.’ And other things, you know, past presidents have faced similar experiences, but they left to win re-election,” she added.
“And we know that this is really the trajectory that we’re on.”
The two-day Reuters poll shows President Biden on a downward trajectory in approval ratings in recent months.
In September, the same poll showed Biden with a 42 percent approval rating. Then in October there was a drop of 2 percentage points to 40 percent. Now the president dropped to 39 percent.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll has a margin of error of about 3 percentage points.
Additionally, the NYT/Sienna poll shows Trump leading Biden with voters in Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania by margins from 3 percent to 10 percent.
Wisconsin is currently the only swing state where Biden is ahead – with just a two-point lead.
Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Michigan were five of the states where Biden defeated Trump in their 2020 White House showdown. However, in 2016, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan all went red for Trump.
Nevada remained blue in 2016 and 2020 — and Wisconsin voted for Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020.
A separate poll released this week found that President Joe Biden’s loss to former President Donald Trump is five of the six swing states key to achieving victory in 2024
“From our point of view right now, this is just a snapshot, and this is a moment in time,” Chavez Rodríguez said at the campaign press conference on Tuesday.
She added: “And we know we have important work to do between now and November next year.”
Of the six battleground states that historically swing between red and blue in presidential elections, Trump could be on track to win five, according to the survey of 3,662 registered voters.