Sorry, that is a bit of an overstatement, just looked at the numbers again, but if you assume every single NIKKI vote is a crossover.. (Which isn’t the case, you will always have about 7-12% in a contested primary still vote for someone other than the lead candidate if there is another option on the ballot in protest when their guy didn’t win)... But lets just leave it as if EVERY single Nikki Vote was a Biden Vote crossing over.
Then other than 2000 (Gore), and 2004 (Kerry) Every other Democrat won the primary since 1992 by more votes than Biden + Haleys’ votes combined were this cycle.
If you just take 2020 vs 2024, the numbers are staggeringly awful.
Biden got over 380k votes in 2020, and Biden + Haley in 2024 got about 306k, down 24%.... and we know not every Haley voter was a democrat, but lets give it to them. Now, given the Democrat primary was uncontested, you could make the argument that’s all you are seeing is lower turnout because no point in voting.
Yet TRUMP, who has already won the nomination, while down from his 2020 numbers, was only down 44k. (504k ins 2020 and 461k in 2024) or down only 8% from 2024... and he too has already won his primary as well.
So, you have to engage in some pretty crazy denials of reality to claim that Biden is in a good place... he’s collapsing, every primary, he’s doing worse and worse relatively speaking.... far worse than Trump is doing when you actually dig into the numbers... However, the media just focus on the top line number without bothering to actually look at the results.
Headline is always Trump only got 79% or 83% or whatever it is for the spin for their pre-determined narrative, but when you actually did deeper, BIDEN is absolutely collapsing
Not only in polls, but mentally and physically