Posted on 07/10/2024 12:43:47 PM PDT by Red Badger
New York Democrats are growing increasingly concerned that their historically deep blue state is now in play after recent polls put former President Donald Trump within single digits of President Joe Biden, according to Politico.
Two polls conducted in a swing New York House district in September and March found Trump leading Biden by one point, while other public polling conducted in recent months found Biden’s lead over the former president statewide shrunk to eight points, Politico reported. Biden won the state in the 2020 election by 23 points, but Democratic leaders are now reportedly urging his team to reallocate resources to boost both his campaign and the candidates running in swing districts.
“We’re still acting like this is a one-party state, which for pretty much 20, 25 years it has been,” Democratic Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine told Politico. “I truly believe we’re a battleground state now.”
“It’s never been more important for a Democratic House member to focus on building their own local brand and to run on that,” a high-level New York Democrat told Politico anonymously. “Biden isn’t going to be handing out coattails no matter what. He’s only got anchors.”
Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler and Rep. Joe Morelle backed the idea of replacing Biden during a Sunday conference call with other House Democrats.
A tight race in New York would take time and money away from being spent in the nation’s six battleground states, Politico reported.
“The money that needs to be spent here will be subtracted from other areas he’s going to lose,” former Democratic Gov. David Paterson of New York told Politico.
Republicans managed to flip four congressional seats in New York in 2022, and Republican gubernatorial challenger Lee Zeldin lost by less than 6% compared to the double digit losses Republicans experienced in previous cycles.
“If I’m a Democrat in some of these suburban races, I’d run the hell away from Joe Biden,” Laura Curran, former Nassau County executive, told Politico.
Trump’s nationwide lead over Biden increased to six points among likely voters after the CNN debate, according to The New York Times/Siena poll, marking his largest lead in the poll since 2015.
Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas was the first Congressional Democrat to publicly urge Biden to drop out. Several other Democratic members have also backed replacing Biden as their candidate ahead of the election.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, however, have publicly come out in support of Biden’s candidacy.
Biden’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“If I’m a Democrat in some of these suburban races, I’d run the hell away from Joe Biden,” Laura Curran, former Nassau County executive, told Politico.
I’ve heard a bit about her, and also heard her on some local radio.
She’s a Dem, yeah, but she’s also a smart, pragmatic one. If she says something, it’s worth paying attention to.
Biden’s thinking function is severely impaired.
<><>He can only conjure up the basest thoughts
<><>thoughts centering on his needs exclusively
<><>what’s best for him alone.
Call your Congressman
(202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard operator.
Message: The DNC, dimwit Biden, his buttinsky unelected wife
and convicted felon son do not get to decide whether he
stays or goes. We, the people, have rights, too.
Maybe I’ve missed something but the last poll was in March. Until there’s a new poll there is no basis for excitement over ny going red. IMHO.
NYC and Albany decide. End of story.
IF JOE QUITS-—the solid wall of protection for the Biden Family CORRUPTION BUSINESS goes away.
I wish with all my might that Trump will end this long nightmare, but my gut tells me the democrats will get enough illegals to send in mail in ballots in swing states to administer the coup d’etat to America.
The democrats who had thousands of pages of Obamacare ready to go.
They laid the groundwork for the pandemic with the 2014 Obama act that hypervirilization was too dangerous to be done in the US.
This all sounds planned and definite GOP rope a dope. C
Lee Zeldin as the VP pick could push NY into a win.
Curiously, I left 20, 25 years ago.
Just in time, apparently.
[IF JOE QUITS-—the solid wall of protection for the Biden Family CORRUPTION BUSINESS goes away.]
David Paterson is 70 years old. Not exactly a spring chicken, but very much alive.
IF Black people did not overwhelmingly vote for the party that worked hard to keep them enslaved in the past, and actually has them enslaved to this day, the Democrats would have done worse by now to them than that...
Given the racist basis for the formation of Planned Parenthood, that half of all black babies are aborted by their mothers, and the unanimous support in the Democratic party for abortion, we can only imagine what the Dems would do to them if they were not voting in lockstep for the Democrats.
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