Posted on 01/11/2024 8:15:42 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
President Joe Biden’s polling numbers made history in Michigan, as less than 20% of state voters said the Democratic incumbent deserves another term as president.
A poll from the Detroit News/WDIV-TV released Wednesday found that out of 600 Michiganian respondents, just 17% believed Biden deserves another term in the White House. The number marked a record low for a major public officeholder in Michigan’s modern political history, according to Richard Czuba, founder of the poll-conducting Glengariff Group.
Biden trails former President Donald Trump by 8 percentage points in a head-to-head matchup, with 47% of respondents saying they prefer Trump and 39% preferring Biden. The results are a significant blow to Biden, who is trailing the former president in several battleground states that will likely decide the outcome of the 2024 election in roughly 10 months.
Biden won Michigan in 2020 by 3 percentage points, 51% to 48%. In January 2020, ahead of that year’s general election, Biden, who was not yet the nominee, led Trump by 7 points.
When third-party candidates were thrown into the race, Trump’s lead over Biden increased to 12 percentage points, stoking Democrats’ fears that the entry of an independent ticket would hurt Biden’s reelection chances and push Trump to victory.
The poll from Glengariff Group released Wednesday was the first one to show Trump with a lead over the likely Democratic nominee in Michigan before an election, Czuba told the Detroit News.
“If I were a Democrat in Michigan, I would be breaking the emergency fire alarms in the White House and demanding to know what the plan is for Michigan,” Czuba said. “Because these numbers are very bad for any incumbent of any party.”
When asked about whether Biden deserved another term, 77% said they wanted a different national leader. When asked the same question regarding Trump, 33% of respondents said the former president deserves another stint in the White House, and 62% said they would prefer someone else.
Michigan Democrats have had several political victories over the last six years, most recently flipping the state legislature to gain a Democratic trifecta for 2023. Michigan Republicans suffered a deep blow during the 2022 midterm elections with historic losses, particularly when Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) won reelection by over 10 percentage points. The state GOP also continues to suffer from intraparty dissension and financial problems.
However, Biden is facing opposition from Michigan Democrats and particularly Muslim Americans, a voting bloc that overwhelmingly supported Biden’s 2020 campaign. Now, the demographic threatens to withhold votes in 2024 over the administration’s stance on the war between Israel and Hamas — a move that could prove disastrous for the president’s reelection chances.
Czuba said Michigan voters’ views on Biden have changed, as Trump’s support in the new poll is in line with the shares of votes he has received in the last two presidential elections.
Three years into his first term, the poll found that Biden had a 58% unfavorable rating and a 29% favorable rating. In September 2020, ahead of the November 2020 election, 43% of Michigan voters had a favorable opinion of Biden. Most of the negative reviews Biden received were related to his age, with 41% of responses connected to his general level of competence and mental competence. At 81 years old, he is the oldest president in U.S. history.
“It is about how they perceive his fitness for office,” Czuba said of the opposition to Biden.
Trump became the first Republican in 28 years to win the Michigan presidential election, defeating Hillary Clinton by 0.2 percentage points in 2016.
Trump’s lead in Wednesday’s poll comes despite the former president’s attempt to overturn the state’s 2020 election results with fake electors. The office of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed charges against several of the alternate electors for their efforts in the election subversion attempt in July 2023. More than 58% of voters said a Trump criminal conviction would not change their vote, while 28% said it would influence their decision.
When asked if there was a silver lining for Democrats in this poll, Michigan Democrat and political consultant Adrian Hemond said there wasn’t one.
“Unless there is a fundamental change in the dynamics of the election, Donald Trump is going to be president in January next year,” Hemond said.
“there is an array of factions against Trump”
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Agree, but the entire anti-Trump ‘force’ is aligned with the Left IMO. The RINO’s especially as they look for every opportunity to resist MAGA.
Don’t believe any of these polls..
Polling is nice, but few understand the utter 3rd-world, diversity, woke corruption that is Detroit/Wayne County
“Americans can see this deep state witch hunt for what it is. Trump vs Goliath. Americas love the underdogs.”
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I’m a bit surprised that, as dumbed down as the country is, many are seeing the Deep State assault on Trump for what it is. They also are slowly coming around to understanding the depths of corruption in the DC Swamp.
The level is national dysfunction is getting harder to ignore.
The good news is that the living population of the Dem stronghold of Detroit is much lower today than it was decades ago.
The bad news is the cemeteries are full—and they vote.
Republican’ts will NEVER see this for what it is.
They will find a way to disqualify RFK Jr. from the ballot. That’s what Pennsylvania Democrat machinery did to the Green Party in 2020.
He is still leading in the Dominion poll.
America's neo-marxists wield race as a weapon, just as 19th marxists wielded "the proletariat" as a weapon. Just as whatever was done for "the masses" is justified, now whatever is done in the name of "anti-racism" is justified.
In 2020, any attempts at preventing egregious corruption of mail-in ballots or suspicious counting in urban centers by black female democrat drones was met with screams of RACISM.
Detroit will continue that in 2024
Here in CT the cheating is not defended with rhetoric at all.
Black thugs keep Republican poll watchers out of the urban precincts.
It is organized crime—no ideology necessary.
How's Newsom/Whitmer doing in Michigan?
How "Biden" is doing is irrelevant.
” they certainly can’t find anyone worse”
Biden is an Idiot. Not even a useful Idiot.
Obozo’s agents are running the country right off the cliff into the abyss.
He takes his orders from the Father of Lies. He serves the wrong master which is Satan Himself.
He has from the beginning of time sought to destroy mankind.
Gentlemen, we have our work cut out for us.
There is a path out, but we must do our part.
Progressive #Progressive_Caucus
Socialist #Venezuela
Marxist #BLM
Fascist #Nazi's (Erdogan’s Turkey)
Communist #Antifa
Dictator #ComDem_Covid19_Dictators
Islamist #ISIS
Bureaucrap #the_Swamp
Corporatism #Globalist_Fascist_Cabal
All Evil. All Fail.
Freedom Works.
It's TIME to DownSize_DC!
Just wait for the Democrat ads that talk about Jews in Trump's family and imply that he might be a Jew too. In their desperation the Dems might just embrace their antisemitism.
extra Dem votes.....
Amazing how many voters have the same handwriting.
How and where the cheating will occur is well known. And the idiot republicans will stand by and watch.
again.
The idiot republicans are getting paid millions to stfu.
I agree.....I’ve said: the dems run the crime family and the pubbies are the cops paid to look away....
The Examiner story is baseless, as far as I'm concerned, after their story made that statement!
It will be harder to cheat if Trump has a landslide. They have a cool surprise ready to sink Trump once and for all. A dozen bimbos ready to swear trump seduced them in High School. No, they tried this before. They will try something drastic this time, I fear.
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