Only 14% of Americans Think Biden Made Them Better Off as President: Another Terrible Poll Finds 70% Believe Bidenomics ‘Hurt’ Them
- Yet another poll highlights the challenge facing Biden’s reelection campaign
- Although Biden has overseen reduced inflation, voters are still facing higher prices
- And only 14 percent of registered voters think they would be better off under him
A new poll shows the steep economic cliff facing President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign.
Only 14 percent of voters think his policies have made them better off, according to the survey released Monday.
And overall, nearly 70 percent said Biden’s economic policies had hurt the U.S. economy or had no impact, including 33 percent who said they believed the president’s policies had “hurt the economy a lot.”
The results come as a series of polls show the president losing to former President Donald Trump, his likely Republican challenger, in key battlegrounds that could decide the 2024 election.
The Biden campaign, in turn, points out that all that matters is what voters do in the voting booth, and that Democrats scored a slew of victories in last week’s elections.
Democratic strategists Global Strategy Group and Republican polling firm North Star Opinion Research surveyed 1,004 registered voters across the country
President Joe Biden and his aides believe they have a good news story to sell with ‘Bidenomics,’ but voters disagree with most who say they are worse off under his leadership
And Biden administration officials believe they have a good news story to tell about the economy after bringing inflation back from post-pandemic highs of more than nine percent.
The president himself has often delved into “Bidenomics” — his effort to revive the nation’s industrial sector and create good-paying jobs.
“When Donald Trump looks at America, he sees a failing nation,” Biden said during a campaign stop in Chicago on Thursday. “When I look at America, I see the strongest economy in the world… leading the world again, the ability to set the world’s standards.”
A new monthly poll has been conducted for the Financial times and the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business suggests that most voters are closer to Trump than Biden in their analysis.
Democratic strategists Global Strategy Group and Republican polling firm North Star Opinion Research surveyed 1,004 registered voters across the country.
Only 26 percent said Biden’s policies had helped.
When asked what caused them the most financial stress, about 82 percent of respondents said price increases.
“Every group – Democrats, Republicans and independents – calls rising prices by far the biggest economic threat. . . and the biggest source of financial stress,” said Erik Gordon, a professor at the Ross School in Michigan.
“That’s bad news for Biden, especially considering how little he can do to reverse the perception of prices before Election Day.”
Biden returned to the White House after spending the weekend at his home in Delaware
Recent polls for the New York Times suggest Biden could lose key swing states to Trump
The Biden campaign has dismissed the dismal polling as nothing more than “noise” and pointed to similar negative headlines a year before Barak Obama was re-elected president in 2012.
Last week, Michael Tyler, Biden-Harris 2024 communications director, distributed a memo after Democrats pulled off a strong set of election results, with the party taking control of both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly, the governor’s mansion in Kentucky, and with Ohio voters enshrine the right to abortion.
“It will be a close election, but this is a president and a team that does not shy away from battle,” he wrote.
“Joe Biden has been left out time and time again and has proven pollsters and experts wrong. This is the time to put your head down, get it done and bring this thing home in a year.”