Biden versus
Trump
The reputable? Five
Thirty-Eight poll shows Biden’s approval at less than 40%, and disapproval at
close to 60%. Yet Biden is consistently
even with or ahead of Trump by 1-2% in national polls.
Real Clear
Politics has similar results, with Biden always leading Trump by one or two points
in general election polling
The conclusion
from this, if one is to believe these polls, is that both Biden and Trump are
unpopular with the majority of voters, and that Trump is slightly more
unpopular than Biden.
Why is
this?
The following is
a summary of Pew Research demographic data during the 2020 election. There is nothing in this data that directly
answers the question. The Pew study
indicates that our country is trending younger and less white with time, but
not with such alacrity so as to explain why the polls show such indifference to
Biden’s ruinous administration, and such obvious hatred for Trump.
Composition of
the U.S. electorate during the 2020 election
69% White, 12%
Black, 11% Hispanic, 8% Other
17% Age 18-29,
31% Age 30-49, 28% Age 50-64, 24% Over 50
32% HS or Less,
32% Some College, 21% Degree, 15% Post Grad
44% Protestant,
22% Catholic, 6% Other, 28% Unaffiliated
Biden and his clueless,
“woke” socialist administration have gone a long way toward ruining our
country’s society, economy and morality.
So, Biden’s disfavor, in light of the country feeling the pinch with
their pocketbooks, and in spite of a media that refuses to call him to task, is
somewhat understandable.
An explanation
for Trump’s unpopularity is myriad. There
is his big mouth and narcissistic personality.
There is his refusal to cede the 2020 election and his opponents’ and
the medias’ turning his opposition into what they call insurrection. There are the criminal charges levied against
him by his leftist enemies, and the refusal of the leftist legislators and the media
to treat him fairly and cut him the same breaks that they freely give to recalcitrant
democrats.
It would seem
that the absolutely horrendous results of the Biden administration for the past
three years, compared particularly with Trump’s positive economic results prior
the Covid pandemic would swing voter polls, at least, toward Trump.
There are
several other factors at play here.
Firstly, whether we care to admit it or not, our younger electorate,
which comprises nearly half of our voters, have been indoctrinated by socialist
principles in our schools. Secondly,
abortion, which was originally unconstitutionally
defined as a federal constitutional right was recently rescinded by SCOTUS, to
the loud objections of some of the same younger voters. And, thirdly, Trump has turned off many
female voters, even conservative women, by his perceived misogyny, as expressed
in the “Hollywood Access Tapes”, and in spite of his positive record concerning
women in government.
With the
continued enmity of once prestigious news media such as the New York Times,
Washington Post, the broadcast channels and others, the above societal points
have been weaponized against Trump to the point that no matter what good he did
for the country during his term in office, it is overwhelmed by the media
propaganda against him.
I have watched
Donald Trump for a long time. I worked
in New York City for 22 years, and quite frankly, was turned off by some of his
younger antics there. I started paying
more attention to Trump when I saw the positive results for the country that
his administration was achieving. Yeah,
he was still a loud-mouth, narcissistic showman, but he supported pride in
America, $1.80 gasoline, energy independence, a real southern border, realistic
race and gender relations, and on and on.
So, will the
2024 election be Trump vs Biden? What
about Trump’s legal issues that have been weaponized by his leftist
enemies? Suppose that he is a “convicted”
felon by election time? What about Biden’s
obvious frailty and senility, which is glossed over by our unfair media, but
which increasingly cannot be hidden? Is
Kamala really his backup? Gavin is in
the wings. Will he turn the country into
a California style socialist “paradise”?
Trump is not new
to adversity, having been steeped in the New York City real estate wars. He won the presidency from Hilary with all
the power of the left and most of the media massed against him in 2016. Can he do it again in 2024, with leftist
arrests and persecutions added to the mix?
I wouldn’t bet against him and his populist following.
Ray Gruszecki
August 30, 2023
