Staff Reports
Harry Enten at CNN might as well be waving a red flag for the Biden campaign, which still seems blissfully unaware that they’re teetering on the brink of absolute political ruin. It appears Biden’s team has opted for a stoic—or possibly delusional—approach to quelling disquiet among high-rolling Democratic donors. Rather than showing an ounce of concern or offering refunds, they’ve left wealthy supporters hanging, despite increasingly vocal worries about the President’s mental fitness.
Now, Enten is telling Anderson Cooper that the polls on Biden’s competence are in another galaxy compared to where they stood four years ago. A staggering 72 percent of Americans think Biden is too old to serve another term—a jump from 65 percent before the last debate and an eye-popping rise from just 36 percent in 2020. If these figures were a stock, investors would have bailed out ages ago.
Re: Biden's age/mental acuity in the voters' minds. The numbers are worse than pre-debate, which were historically bad. Far worse than 2020 when age actually wasn't a big issue to voters.
The comparison to Reagan is total bunk.
Unsure how Biden wins if #s don't vastly improve pic.twitter.com/46nP2gPEYf
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) July 2, 2024
To put it plainly, the numbers on Biden’s aging and perceived mental decline are even more disastrous than they were pre-debate, which were already historically bad. Back in 2020, most voters brushed off concerns about his age, but those days seem as long gone as a Blockbuster video store.
Any attempt by liberals to draw comparisons to Ronald Reagan’s 1984 campaign is laughable at best. Unlike Biden, Reagan had a rocky first debate but rebounded magnificently in the second one. Even during Reagan’s worst moments, only 27 percent of Americans questioned whether he was too old for the job, a far cry from Biden’s dire situation today.
Reagan benefited from a strong reservoir of trust among voters, while Biden seems to be draining whatever goodwill he had left. Sam Stein even tweeted a half-apology for being blunt but couldn’t help but ask the obvious: How on earth can Biden hope to win re-election with these abysmal numbers?
They say desperate times call for desperate measures, but in Biden’s case, the only way out might be through, ahem, unconventional means.
