Salena Zito of the Washington Examiner suggests Biden is disconnected from voters’ concerns
Salena Zito of the Washington Examiner criticized President Biden for failing to effectively engage with voters, particularly on the issue of the increasing cost of living. Despite the administration’s success in job creation, Zito highlighted the financial hardships faced by Americans due to rising prices of essentials like gas and groceries. This disconnect was emphasized in a segment on Fox News.
The Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito said President Joe Biden has not done a good job connecting with voters, specifically on the cost of living.
Zito, a columnist for the Washington Examiner, acknowledged the United States is seeing a growing number of jobs created under the Biden administration, an accomplishment Biden has touted while on the campaign trail. However, Zito contended that voters are feeling “a lot of pain” from the rising cost of various items, including gas, groceries, and insurance.
“All of those things that are basic to a person’s daily life is … becoming unattainable. People are doing what I call ‘the switch-out’ — when they go food shopping, they put something in the cart they always buy, and then, maybe three aisles later, decide, ‘I can’t afford that, and this something’s got to go,’” Zito said on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom.
Biden’s visits to various Pennsylvania cities this week were also discussed, and she argued the president is visiting “safe places” where he is guaranteed to win. She added that while areas such as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh have a high population, it will be other counties such as Erie and Northampton that will determine who wins Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is one of several swing states that many look at to see who could win the presidential election, and it is worth 20 points in the Electoral College. Former President Donald Trump, who is the presumptive presidential nominee for the Republican Party, won the state in 2016 against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but he lost the state to Biden when seeking reelection in 2020.
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Zito’s comments on Biden’s failure to connect with voters on the cost of living mirror recent polling data released earlier this month, which found a majority of respondents stated that Trump would handle the economy better than Biden. The former president also led Biden when respondents were asked who would do a better job on border security and mental fitness to serve as president, though Biden led Trump regarding abortion access.
This data also found Trump is leading Biden in six out of seven swing states, one of which is Pennsylvania. The other states include North Carolina, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Nevada, with the two candidates tying in Wisconsin.
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