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It appears that CNN isn’t able to defend Joe Biden any longer.
With over 20 years in the industry, veteran political commentator Scott Jennings had extensive involvement in four presidential efforts and he’s a regular contributor on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and an Adjunct Lecturer at Harvard. Jennings appeared on CNN to reflect on Biden’s time in the White House, and his commentary appeared to stun everyone.
“I never imagined how quickly this would all unfold,” Jennings began. “The person they sold on the campaign. The nice old moderate Grandpa who just wanted to help everybody get along and compromise is not what we got over the past year.” (Trending: North Face Has A Bud Light Moment And It’s Ugly)
“He has no mandate, really, to do much of anything,” he continued. “It’s amazing that he got a couple of things done when the mandate was pretty clear: 50/50 Senate and near 50/50 House, and a pretty close presidential election.”
“The mandate was simply ‘replace Donald Trump and don’t do anything drastic or stupid,” Jennings said. “And yet everything about this agenda is extremely drastic. And he’s been angrier than I think people expected, he’s been more divisive, he’s been more partisan.”
“You look at the issues. We built five years of coverage on Trump out of Russia, COVID, and democracy,” Jennings added. “The president, in his press conference, invites Russia to invade the Ukraine. We have more [COVID] deaths under Biden than Trump. And now we have the president and the vice president question the legitimacy of the 2022 election? Are we any better off on these issues that we crucified Trump over?”
“I think he has a lot of political problems,” he said. “And an AP poll came out this morning, only 28 percent of Americans want the sitting president to run for re-election. And fewer than half of Democrats. This is a disaster,” Jennings concluded.
A Quinnipiac poll showed Biden’s approval crashing to 33 percent. This is worst than the lowest rating ever received by President Donald Trump, according to Gallup. (Trending: Bombshell Report Reveals Collusion Between FBI and Clintons)
There are a number of factors that have contributed to Biden’s low approval rating. These include Biden’s handling of the economy, the ongoing crisis at the southern border, the disastrous withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, skyrocketing inflation, and his lack of competence and work ethic. Biden is outpacing every president in U.S. history in vacation time at roughly 40% of his 2.5 years in office, which equals 367 days.
A poll conducted by Siena College in July 2023 found that Biden and Trump are tied in the 2024 White House, each with 43% support among registered voters. The poll also found that 14% of registered voters were undecided.
The same poll by Siena College found Trump has 37% support among Republican primary voters, which is more than double the support of his closest rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (16%).
According to FiveThirtyEight, a website that aggregates and analyzes political polls, Donald Trump is the clear frontrunner in the 2024 Republican presidential primary. Other potential Republican candidates have far less support. Former Vice President Mike Pence had 7% support, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had 6% support, and Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton had 5% support.
