President Biden is still struggling in the polls, and he’s got an approval rating of around 33%. This is causing some serious concerns with Democratic strategists who feel that Biden may have already lost the election. Mike Papantonio is joined by Independent newspaper publisher Rick Outzen to explain more.
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Mike Papantonio: President Biden is still struggling in the polls, and he’s got an approval rating of around 33%. This is causing serious concerns with Democratic strategists who feel that Biden may already have lost the election. Okay. Here it is. This is not me. This is, if you look at what all the polls are showing, here’s what’s killing him, immigration, high inflation, his age, Kamala Harris, killing him. And to a lesser degree, third party candidates like Robert Kennedy. Donors are leaving the party, just over, if you take a look at what’s happening with Gaza. Okay. Jewish donors who have pumped up the Democratic Party for decades are saying, really? You got Kamala Harris out there attacking us, and you want our money? Because of that, even the money raising is taking a different turn, hasn’t it?
Rick Outzen: Well, it’s a slow slog summer. There’s no excitement there. There’s no joy. And it is everything, all the trials are not having the impact that they thought that it would. It’s not a big factor. It’s boiling down to the economy over and over again. And people do not have confidence in the Biden economy and I think that’s the other big issue that keeps resonating. I think they’re hoping that abortion will rescue the campaign.
Mike Papantonio: I don’t think it does. I don’t think the numbers are there.
Rick Outzen: It might. I mean, it’s still among women it’s a huge issue.
Mike Papantonio: Of course it is. It should be.
Rick Outzen: But I don’t know. The minority vote is not going the way that they think it was gonna go.
Mike Papantonio: Well, you’ve got Hamas, the Israel, Hamas issue. You’ve got the Ukraine issue. You have inflation. You have all these things that everybody seems to be ignoring in the Democratic Party and the critics are saying, really? Your campaign is that we have to elect him because democracy is at risk with Trump. That’s their argument.
Rick Outzen: Right.
Mike Papantonio: You think that resonates with the average American? They don’t even understand the intricacies of that argument. And so I think the Democrats are running out of ideas as to what is going to propel him. I don’t know if you saw this number, I was startled by it, but they were talking about his approval rating, what it was.
Rick Outzen: It’s about the same, somewhere around 34.
Mike Papantonio: Well, yeah. And I mean, at 31. And that was at the time, I guess a year ago and now it’s 30, 31, 4 or something like that.
Rick Outzen: Yeah.
Mike Papantonio: So I’m not seeing any change. I don’t know. Do you get rid of him? The freeze that he had the other day was startling. I don’t know if you saw it, the Juneteenth celebration. But even corporate media who protects him left and right, they’re up showing this freeze that takes place where he literally for a minute and a half stood frozen, incapable. His eyes were fixed. He was frozen. People look at that and they go, this scares the hell out of me. And then you, so what’s your other side? A lunatic.
Rick Outzen: That’s ranting.
Mike Papantonio: You’ve got this ranting lunatic out there on the other side and people say, my God, give us a candidate.
Rick Outzen: Right.
Mike Papantonio: You know, give us a candidate.
Rick Outzen: Yeah. It’s a dismal feeling. I think that what happens in the polling booth is gonna be interesting.
Mike Papantonio: I’m kind of tired of hearing that the only numbers where it comes to what we ought to be looking at, that the polls, I don’t believe much in polls unless it’s in a 3% kinda range, most of them are ridiculous.
Rick Outzen: Right.
Mike Papantonio: But you hear that argument, well, we’re gonna find out on the election day. We’ll see what the numbers are. You can’t just wait for that. You have to take some action ahead of time. And all this stuff is pointing towards, we need a new Republican candidate and we need a new Democratic candidate. Give the American people something to choose from. Rick, that’s all for this week.
Rick Outzen: Alright, I think we did enough damage.
Mike Papantonio: All these segments are gonna be posted right here on this channel in the coming week. So make sure you’re subscribed. I’m Mike Papantonio, and this has been America’s Lawyer, where we tell you stories every week that corporate media won’t tell you because their advertisers don’t allow for it. If they tell the story, they’re gonna lose advertising dollars or their political connections are so Democrat or so Republican that the media can’t color outside the lines. We don’t have that problem here, as you can tell. Hope to see you next week.
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