Posted on 04/06/2022 9:17:21 PM PDT by Mount Athos
More Americans would rather kick Joe Biden out of the White House than see Vladimir Putin removed from power in the Kremlin.
Just a week after the US president was accused of making a gaffe calling for regime change in Russia, an exclusive poll for the Sunday Express has revealed Americans would rather see his presidency end. Asked which would be better for America, 52 per cent chose "Biden loses power in the US" over 43 per cent for "Putin loses power in Russia".
The findings, in the poll by the Washington-based Democracy Institute, show almost two-thirds of Americans (62 per cent) believe Mr Biden will not be re-elected in 2024.
They also appear to confirm an expected bid by Donald Trump in 2024 will see him sweep back to power.
While Boris Johnson has seen a rise in public support for his handling of the Ukraine crisis, the error prone US president has not enjoyed a similar bounce.
Of 1,500 polled, who all identify as "likely voters'', 57 per cent disapprove of his presidency, the same as a month ago, while just 39 per cent approve of it.
And 70 per cent believe the US is "heading in the wrong direction".
His handling of the war is only approved by 40 per cent while 52 per cent disapprove, and his overall foreign policy has a 55 per cent disapproval rating compared to 42 per cent approval.
While a Techne poll for the Sunday Express showed almost a third of UK voters had Ukraine as their top concern, in the US just eight per cent saw it as their main issue, with the key worry being inflation.
If Mr Trump does run in 2024, according to the US poll results he would beat Mr Biden by 48 per cent to 43 per cent.
Patrick Basham, Director of the Democracy Institute, said: “Biden’s foreign policy debacles, highlighted by America’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, have turned off voters, who mostly disapprove of his handling of America’s global role.
“Biden’s political team knows economic pain will continue to weigh down the president’s ratings. So, it puts great stock in Biden’s handling of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“His counsellors view the Ukraine crisis as a blunt instrument that nonetheless may help the president to dig himself out of his electoral hole.
“Should the Ukraine crisis end on terms perceived to be favourable to the Ukrainians, and should Vladimir Putin’s Russia be put back in her box, it’s possible that Biden will receive considerable credit and his ratings will improve. If that happens, his party’s candidates may also improve their positions vis-à-vis their Republican opponents.
“However, given Biden’s continuing bungling of the crisis, highlighted by his dangerous verbal gaffes and wildly inaccurate predictions of the imminent demise of the ruble and the Russian economy, voters disapprove of his handling of Ukraine.”
Poll analysis by Patrick Basham, director of Democracy Institute:
Joe Biden’s Democrats are battling a perfect storm of economic trials, foreign policy crises, and historical precedent that threatens to drown the party in November’s election.
With every seat in the House of Representatives up for grabs, our Democracy Institute/Sunday Express survey finds Democratic candidates in a precarious position, having lost significant ground to their Republican opponents since Biden’s inauguration 15 months ago.
The Democrats face potentially insurmountable electoral headwinds. It’s hard to foresee the party’s campaign overcoming the building blocks that buttress a sizeable Republican advantage among voters.
History
A President’s own party almost always does poorly in the midterm voting held two years after his own election. Modern midterm elections have resulted in an average loss of 30 House seats.
The President’s party most often receives a bloody nose rather than a knockout punch. Donald Trump’s Republicans experienced the former in 2018. But, sometimes their parties do very badly, indeed. See Bill Clinton’s Democrats in 1994 and Barack Obama’s Democrats in 2010.
Midterms are usually low-turnout events. The party with the more motivated voters wins. Today, Republican voters exhibit an enormous 17-point enthusiasm advantage, as many Democratic voters are underwhelmed by Biden’s presidency, while a sizeable minority are experiencing a serious case of buyer’s remorse.
Context
Democrats are protecting a slim House majority that will disappear should the Republicans enjoy a net gain of only six seats. In a close contest, population and personnel changes could determine which party holds power in the next Congress.
One ray of sunshine for Biden’s House colleagues is the redrawing of congressional districts, a protracted process now nearing completion. The Democrats may have outdone the Republicans at “gerrymandering,” the carving out of district boundaries to partisan advantage. Expert opinion differs, but it’s possible gerrymandering will net the Democrats a couple of seats.
That’s the end of the Democrats’ good news.
With each new national census, Americans’ residential mobility necessitates an updated apportionment of congressional districts. The national total of 435 districts never changes. But individual seats are reapportioned on a state-by-state basis to reflect any demographic changes.
Americans continue to flee high-tax, heavily regulated “Blue” states, dominated by reliably Democratic voters, in favour of low-tax, less regulated “Red” states that skew Republican in their voting patterns. Subsequently, Red states gained several districts, while Blue states lost an equal number, producing a net gain of 3 or 4 House seats for the Republicans.
Furthermore, 31 Democratic congressmen, a modern record, aren’t seeking reelection. These incumbents are abandoning the party’s banner this year because they think it’s a lost cause. They’re pretty certain that, under Captain Biden’s stewardship, The Good Ship Democrat is headed for the electoral rocks.
The Biden Effect
Biden clearly has presidential coattails. Unfortunately for his party, his coattails are negative, pulling down Democratic candidates in competitive seats in swing states. Our polling finds evidence many districts narrowly won by Biden in 2020 are leaning heavily Republican.
Biden hurts Democratic chances because he’s now quite unpopular with most Americans. Only four in 10 voters approve of the job Biden’s doing. Independent voters (those who don’t identify as either Democrat or Republican) overwhelmingly conclude his presidency is a failure.
Minority Voters
Conventional wisdom holds that America’s demographic destiny guarantees endless Democratic victories. Biden’s steadfast Democratic supporters are found disproportionately among young, urban, minority, and highly-educated voter groups.
It’s thought those groups will increase as a share of the overall electorate. In striking contrast, it’s asserted that the Republicans’ growing reliance upon rural, blue-collar, and older White voters dooms the party to the pursuit of voter groups in proportionate decline.
The argument that such group identity arithmetic trumps everything else is becoming less persuasive. Biden’s unsuccessful presidency has thrown a rather large spanner into those particular works.
The most vivid illustrations are Black and Hispanic voters. Before Donald Trump, Republicans’ high-water mark was one-in-ten Black votes. Today, almost one-in-three Black voters support the Republicans. And Hispanics, especially working-class voters, are leaving the Democrats in droves, as the latter’s economic and educational policies turn-off both Hispanic men and their culturally conservative wives.
Domestic Issues
COVID’s the only issue on which Biden and the Democrats hold their own against the Republicans, with Americans evenly divided in assigning credit and blame. Further compounding Democrat woes is that the issue is no longer voters’ paramount concern, as it was in 2020 and 2021.
Most American voters disapprove of the president’s handling of the economy, which is their top priority. This is unsurprising, given that inflation is at a 40-year high, wages aren’t keeping pace with rising prices, petrol costs twice as much as when Biden became president, supply chain problems are ubiquitous, and Biden, himself, says food shortages are imminent.
Other important issues to voters similarly hurt the Democrats’ chances. Topping the list are spiralling urban crime, radical woke-themed educational policies, and a porous US-Mexico border that bleeds illegal immigrants into the country. The Republicans hold sizeable leads on the question of which party is favoured to deal with these issues.
With seven in ten voters saying the country’s headed in the wrong direction, most don’t think Biden can be reelected. A replay of the 2020 election would see him lose to Trump.
Foreign Policy, Ukraine & Russia
Biden’s foreign policy debacles, highlighted by America’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, have turned off voters, who mostly disapprove of his handling of America’s global role.
Biden’s political team knows economic pain will continue to weigh down the president’s ratings. So, it puts great stock in Biden’s handling of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. His counsellors view the Ukraine crisis as a blunt instrument that nonetheless may help the president to dig himself out of his electoral hole.
Should the Ukraine crisis end on terms perceived to be favourable to the Ukrainians, and should Vladimir Putin’s Russia be put back in her box, it’s possible that Biden will receive considerable credit and his ratings will improve. If that happens, his party’s candidates may also improve their positions vis-à-vis their Republican opponents.
However, given Biden’s continuing bungling of the crisis, highlighted by his dangerous verbal gaffes and wildly inaccurate predictions of the imminent demise of the ruble and the Russian economy, voters disapprove of his handling of Ukraine.
Voters are evenly split on whether America should seek Putin’s removal from power, as advocated by Biden. In part, that’s because voters perceive Russia to be a lesser threat than China, Iran, or North Korea, and because the Ukraine crisis is an issue that ranks comparatively low on their priority list.
I concur, Biden is much more dangerous than Putin.
Joe Biden is affecting the quality of life of Americans. Putin is affecting the quality of life of Ukrainians. What can the American people relate to more ? If Putin were affecting the quality of life of Americans the way he is affecting the quality of life of Ukrainians, you would have a different poll result.
If wishes were hoses....beggars would ride.
That’s right. Biden and the leftists are destroying our own country right at home.
We need to keep our priorities in order.
Hmmm
If wishes were hoses...we’d be really hosed.
hoses = horses
I guess many are questioning whose election was more legit?
Simultaneously would be fine.
I agree.
Absolutely!
Senile Joe the meat puppet is just as illegitimate as his puppet master, the Kenyanesian Usurper.
Joe Biden and his idiot running mate have got to go. Oh, and throw in the Barak Obama that foisted him on us too.
How about a two-for-one deal? Biden and Harris resign if Putin resigns.
Heh
Biden should be removed
Putin should be removed
Zelensky should be removed
Xi should be removed
Kim should be removed
Khameni should be removed
Castros son in canada should be removed
Ok, we got our lists people
So many socialists wanting war
Plane is going down folks
Lets roll
Is Heels Up Harris any better?
What more dangerous, the foreign enemy, or a traitor within?
Read the quote below.
Taylor Caldwell; “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
Which brings up the question - how is the removal to be accomplished?
Well, Joe might die. This is chancy at best, and may involve some questionable activity on the part of person or persons unknown. Or the provisions of the 25th Amendment might be brought up and acted upon. Impeachment is not an option, as NO US President has ever been removed from office regardless if whether impeachment was successful or not. Resignation is an option, as it has successfully been used before, but the pressure has to come from within the Democrat party itself, as there is no response to pressure from any other source.
Or he could be voted out in November 2024. But that is SUCH a long time.
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