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Biden Is Politically Dead, and Yet He Still Beats Donald Trump in the Polls (Barf alert)
National Review ^ | 12th July 2022 | CHARLES C. W. COOKE

Posted on 07/12/2022 7:49:57 AM PDT by Ennis85

On the homepage today, Rich writes that “for the good of the country, Biden shouldn’t run again.”

The same is true of Donald Trump.

In my view, there are many, many reasons for this — not least that Trump permanently disqualified himself from consideration with his behavior after the 2020 election. But, whether or not you agree with me about that, you can surely grasp that, as a political matter, Donald Trump is a spent force?

Yesterday’s New York Times poll sent shockwaves through the political world. It found that President Biden’s approval rating is at 33 percent; that “more than two-thirds of independents also now disapprove of the president’s performance”; that “more than three-quarters of registered voters see the United States moving in the wrong direction”; that “only 13 percent of American voters said the nation was on the right track”; and that “94 percent of Democrats under the age of 30 said they would prefer a different presidential nominee.” This is disastrous.

And yet:

One glimmer of good news for Mr. Biden is that the survey showed him with a narrow edge in a hypothetical rematch in 2024 with former President Donald J. Trump: 44 percent to 41 percent.

That’s right. Joe Biden is on political death row. And yet, in the same poll that has delivered his death warrant, he still beats Donald Trump in a head-to-head matchup. If Republican primary voters look at this information and decide to nominate Trump again anyway, they will have nobody to blame for the consequences but themselves.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: angryneocons; biden; charlescwcooke; election; fakenews; nationalrepuke; nationalreview; nationalspew; neocontwaddle; nevertrumpers; newyorkslimes; polls; sharles; tds; trump
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To: Ennis85

I haven’t checked the internals on that poll yet, but I do have a strong suspicion they may have oversampled dead people - they’re pretty reliable as Democrat voters.


61 posted on 07/12/2022 8:42:20 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: Luke21

I don’t believe this poll either...


62 posted on 07/12/2022 8:43:14 AM PDT by GOPJ (MAGA POWER - - President Trump's endorsement record is 144-10)
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To: Ennis85

I favor DeSantis, but NR can go to h go to hell. To think I once subscribed! No way would Buckley not love Trump.


63 posted on 07/12/2022 8:43:48 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: Ennis85

Don’t believe anything you read in the left wing democrat media, ANYTHING.

ANYTHING !!!!!


64 posted on 07/12/2022 8:45:15 AM PDT by Pearfect
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To: Lazamataz

National Review today would be unrecognizable to William F. Buckley, Jr., were he to gaze down from Heaven’s scene.

Sometime since 1955, the “modern” conservative movement got “woke”, and lost their thread.


65 posted on 07/12/2022 8:45:45 AM PDT by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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To: Yo-Yo

Not to mention trumps approval ratings this far in where double digits higher.


66 posted on 07/12/2022 8:46:11 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: skeeter

Doesn’t tds Steve Hayes run it or work there now? As well as other tds rinos?


67 posted on 07/12/2022 8:47:42 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Ennis85

Is Dominion running the polls?


68 posted on 07/12/2022 8:49:57 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

Rich Lowry?


69 posted on 07/12/2022 8:54:34 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Ennis85

When does NR start backing McMuffin again?


70 posted on 07/12/2022 9:00:09 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Vendome

C’mon man, he’s still ready to take Trump behind the bleachers . . .


71 posted on 07/12/2022 9:00:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: skeeter

Not sure who all works there- I thought Fred Barnes and Steve Hayes went there too? Maybe it’s another publication they went to, I could be wrong


72 posted on 07/12/2022 9:02:13 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Ennis85
Accurate polling would call for over-polling Democrat areas of Milwaukee, Philly, Atlanta, Phoenix, and Detroit. That’s the best outcome predictor, in 2020 and to this day. Nothing has changed.
73 posted on 07/12/2022 9:03:01 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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Yesterday’s New York Times poll …
LOL at Charles C.W. Kook.

NR is more useless than Pollutico at this point.
74 posted on 07/12/2022 9:03:25 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Yo-Yo

Regardless, three polls all showing Trump and Biden within single digits of each other in a rematch. They both have records as President (rare that both candidates have that) and Biden’s is the worst ever yet Trump not up by double digits in any of those polls?


75 posted on 07/12/2022 9:04:53 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Luke21

And Kamala beats DeSantis and Democrats are ten feet tall.
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I saw that poll pushed all over the media. Kamala really beat DeSantis in what universe? LOL


76 posted on 07/12/2022 9:09:39 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Hostage

” I met this pot-bellied facial Anus in 1996 at the Bob Dole GOP wing-ding in San Diego.”

Charles C. Cooke was 11 years old on that date and you say he had a pot belly.

Mr. Cooke was born in Britain on Nov. 4, 1984.


77 posted on 07/12/2022 9:10:13 AM PDT by Colo9250 (Democrats have murdered more children than all the wars in the past thirty years.)
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To: Ennis85

How cute. National Review still thinks it is relevant.


78 posted on 07/12/2022 9:10:59 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: Mr. K

And National Review has stopped lying to us!

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Oh remember their big article proclaiming how the J6 beetch saying Trump was raging throwing food and grabbing steering wheels was “devastating” for Trump and a BOMBSHELL.


79 posted on 07/12/2022 9:11:09 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Ennis85

If William F. Buckley Jr were still alive, he would be turning over in his grave.


80 posted on 07/12/2022 9:13:43 AM PDT by Tupelo (Don't underestimate The Republican Party's ability to f*ck things up)
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