‘Angry and worried’ President Biden ‘yelling and cursing’ at aides after being told his poll numbers have fallen over handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict

Insiders claim President Joe Biden is privately “talking” about his disastrous election numbers to his staff and is “angry and concerned” about his 2024 reelection efforts.

The story comes after Biden didn’t get the typical election rating after his State of the Union address last week — and his approval rating is now at a new low of 37.4 percent.

However, reports of the president’s anger date back to January, when aides told him that his voting numbers in the key swing states of Michigan and Georgia had fallen as a result of his handling of Israel’s war against Hamas, although he still believed he had done the same. right thing.

‘He started shouting and cursing’ NBC reports, citing a story that interviewed 20 lawmakers, current and former administration officials and Biden allies.

“President Biden makes national security decisions based solely on the country’s national security needs – and no other factor,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in response.

However, allies say Biden’s frustrations are growing as he questions travel choices and apparent inability to communicate his agenda to the American people.

His weak approval rating is well below the last three presidents who failed to win a second term: George HW Bush (39 percent), Jimmy Carter (43 percent) and his November opponent, Donald Trump (48 percent).

The 81-year-old Biden is reportedly unhappy with those who are said to want to “minimize the chance of catching the flu” and says he is cocooned and wants to make his case to the public and thwart Trump.

The president’s temper toward staff has been detailed in the past, with him often yelling at staff and shouting obscenities.

“He’s probably a little mad at himself for not being more forceful with the staff,” a Biden White House insider claimed, adding that he often gets conflicting advice on how to deal with the perception that he’s too old to do the work.

Many polled by NBC agreed that Biden simply needed to be clearer about what he has done for the country during his first term, citing clean energy projects, high-tech manufacturing and infrastructure.

“There’s a real story to be told,” said Biden supporter and ex-Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu.

‘It’s a winning message and it’s about jobs, prosperity and evolution. If that message can be delivered, I think the American people will respond.”

However, some Democrats, such as Washington State Congressman Adam Smith, are losing patience.

“Biden stood up in front of the whole world and said, ‘I’m ready. “I am the man who can take down Donald Trump,” he said.

“So he damn well better do it. We don’t have time for him to worry about whether or not people are saying things right or whether the poll numbers are at the right level. I want focused energy and not defensive anger.”

However, campaign chairman Jen O’Malley Dillon remains confident that once Trump is the clear opponent, Biden can beat him again.

“We know he lost in 2020,” she said. “To win, he must expand his voter base to find new people to join him. And that’s not something he’s shown he’s really focused on.”

Biden and former President Donald Trump both reached the number of delegates their respective parties needed for the 2024 nomination in Tuesday’s primaries.

This means that a rematch between the two geriatrics will take place in November, despite the majority of Americans saying they do not want that.

A Yahoo News/YouGov poll The survey, conducted just days after Biden’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Thursday, shows that the current president’s chances against Trump actually diminished following his fiery comments.

Before the speech, Trump was up 45 to 44 percent over Biden in the late January poll. While the latest recording from March 8 to 11 is still within the polls’ margin of error and amounts to a statistical tie, Trump is now at 46 percent to Biden’s 44 percent in a hypothetical election battle.

The same poll shows Biden’s approval rating dropping from 40 percent to 39 percent before and after the speech. His disapproval went from 56 percent to 55 percent.

But a FiveThirtyEight average shows that the number of Americans who approve of Biden’s job as president has fallen to a new low of 37.4 percent.

A post-State of the Union Harris X poll estimates Biden’s approval at a flat 37 percent and disapproval at 58 percent. But among those in that survey who did watch the State of the Union, 13 percent more approved of Biden’s job as president, compared to those who did not tune in.

In previous years, State of the Union addresses were a way for presidents to address everyone — and often the comments were accompanied by a backlash.

For example, Trump’s approval rose a few percent after his 2019 speech in February of that year.

Before his State of the Union address, his approval rating was about 37 percent, according to Gallup polls. But after the comments, the same poll showed the then-president rising to 44 percent.

Overall, Biden’s final speech of his first term wasn’t exactly the reset the White House was hoping for amid low approval and mounting criticism of the president’s age and fitness for office.

Fifty-one percent of those who watched the State of the Union say Biden looked 81, according to the YouGov poll. Another 24 percent say he seemed “older” than they expected. Only 17 percent say he didn’t seem that old.

Most polls from the past year show that Americans do not want Biden and Trump (77) as two options in the 2024 presidential election.

But after Tuesday’s primaries in the states of Georgia, Mississippi and Washington, that is exactly the general election ballot Americans will receive in November.