{"id":2254101,"date":"2024-05-28T07:45:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T11:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/six-signs-biden-is-starting-to-panic-about-reelection-chances\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T07:50:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T11:50:16","slug":"six-signs-biden-is-starting-to-panic-about-reelection-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/six-signs-biden-is-starting-to-panic-about-reelection-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"Six indicators of Biden&#8217;s growing concern over reelection prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsix-signs-biden-is-starting-to-panic-about-reelection-chances%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2254101&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-insists-she-has-great-approval-ratings\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris claims high approval ratings.\">job approval \u200crating<\/a> has reached a worrying low of 38.7% \u2063with the\u200d presidential\u200d election just \u20626 months away. This rating \u2062ranks him in the bottom 12% of all\u200c presidential approval \u200drankings since 1945. Recent\u2064 polls show \u2062him trailing behind Donald Trump in key battleground \u200bstates.\u200b Many critical decisions, including handling economic and geopolitical issues, are now heavily\u2063 influenced\u200c by electoral considerations. A gradual decline\u2064 in support among black voters\u2064 and young voters\u2063 has\u200d led \u2063to Biden&#8217;s active \u200cefforts to regain \u2064their trust. The six signs \u2062that suggest a panic mode \u2062in his camp include Biden&#8217;s sudden willingness to debate \u2062Trump, \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lefty-professor-demanding-justice-thomas-recuse-over-wifes-texts-accidentally-explains-why-he-shouldnt\/\" title=\"Lefty Professor Demanding Justice Thomas Recuse Over Wife\u2019s Texts Accidentally Explains Why He Shouldn\u2019t\">asserting executive privilege<\/a> over problematic \u2063audio recordings, pursuing black voters, courting young voters with weed-friendly policies, tough \u2063stance on Israel, and directing \u200dgovernment funds to boost voter registration.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>With less than six months until the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>presidential election<\/a>, President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s average job <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/approval-ratings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>approval rating<\/a> is 38.7% \u2014 making it the lowest 13th quarter approval rating of all nine past presidents in their first term in office. <\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/644252\/biden-13th-quarter-approval-average-lowest-historically.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>most recent<\/a> quarterly ranking puts him at the bottom 12% of all presidential approval rankings since 1945. <\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Biden clinched victory by narrowly winning in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/12\/02\/940689086\/narrow-wins-in-these-key-states-powered-biden-to-the-presidency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>analysis<\/a> by NPR\u2019s Domenico Montanaro found that it was \u201cjust 44,000 votes in Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin separated Biden and Trump from a tie in the Electoral College.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/13\/us\/politics\/biden-trump-battleground-poll.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>polling<\/a> shows Biden trailing Donald Trump in five of six battleground states. Another <a href=\"https:\/\/pro-assets.morningconsult.com\/wp-uploads\/2024\/05\/Bloomberg-Election-Tracking-Wave-8-Toplines-Crosstabs.pdf\">poll<\/a> found Trump leading Biden in all seven swing states by 48% to 44%. Even when including third party candidates Robert F Kennedy Jr., Jill Stein, and Cornel West, Trump still held a four point lead over Biden. <\/p>\n<p>While Trump is juggling his criminal court cases and campaigning, Biden is attempting to soothe people\u2019s concerns about the economy, his cognitive ability, and the war in Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>For the Biden campaign, it\u2019s crunch time, and according to Jacob Neiheisel, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-look-back-on-court-packing-attempts-in-us-history\/\" title=\"A Look Back On \u2018Court Packing\u2019 Attempts in US History\">political science professor<\/a> at University of Buffalo, every move by Biden is made with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Electoral-College\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Electoral College<\/a> vote tallies in mind. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny behavior that they\u2019re engaging in, they have judged to be electorally beneficial to them, so if they\u2019re engaging in it, they think at the very least that it is not harmful to them, and at best is going to benefit them in some way,\u201d Neiheisel said. <\/p>\n<p>Here are the six signs that Biden is in panic mode. <\/p>\n<h4><strong>Biden\u2019s willingness to debate Donald Trump<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>It\u2019s customary for both the Democrat and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Republican\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Republican<\/a> presidential nominee to debate each other before the general election, and Biden and Trump debated each other twice in 2020. However, up until April, Biden hadn\u2019t expressed any indication that he\u2019d debate Trump, for in March he said that it would depend on Trump\u2019s \u201cbehavior\u201d if he were to engage in one. <\/p>\n<p>But that all changed when his campaign team dropped a video a couple weeks ago of Biden calling on Trump to two debates. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake my day pal,\u201d Biden said in the video. \u201cI hear you\u2019re free on Wednesdays,\u201d a jab to Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/daily-memo\/3014100\/who-is-the-victim-of-trumps-bookkeeping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>legal troubles<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The debates are a chance for Biden to shake off the public\u2019s perception of him being an incompetent old man who stumbles his way through public addresses. It\u2019s an opportunity for Biden to garner the attention and support of his disengaged base. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the most part they aren\u2019t going to change too many minds,\u201d Neiheisel said. <\/p>\n<p>If Biden is successful in the debates, it may show a temporary boost in polls, but it is unlikely to have a long term effect. For instance, Democratic presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-kerry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>John Kerry<\/a> won all three debates against George W. Bush in 2004, according to Gallup, but he still lost the election. <\/p>\n<h4><strong>Biden asserts executive privilege over Robert Hur audio recordings<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>President Biden asserted executive privilege after\u00a0the House Committees on Oversight and Accountability and Judiciary issued subpoenas to release the audiotapes of Biden with Special counsel Robert Hur regarding how he handled classified documents. <\/p>\n<p>The move by the House committee is part of the GOP-lead impeachment hearings on Biden. The release of the transcripts of Biden and Hur\u2019s conversation was disastrous for the president, as the special counsel described Biden to be a \u201cwell-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Committee Chair James Comer (R-TN) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmbfnews.com\/2024\/05\/16\/white-house-blocks-release-bidens-special-counsel-interview-audio-says-gop-is-being-political\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>asserted<\/a> Biden\u2019s move is a \u201cHail Mary\u201d and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-AL) accused the president of keeping the recording private out of fear of the American people hearing him be forgetful during an election year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe absence of a legitimate need for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-exerts-executive-privilege-over-robert-hur-tapes\/\" title=\"Biden asserts executive privilege on Robert Hur tapes\">audio recordings lays bare<\/a> your likely goal \u2014 to chop them up, distort them and use them for partisan political purposes,\u201d the White House counsel Edward N. Siskel wrote in a letter. \u201cDemanding such sensitive and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-joe-biden-is-sharp-as-ever-why-is-he-trying-to-suppress-the-hur-audio\/\" title=\"Why is Joe Biden Suppressing the Hur Audio if He's Still Sharp?\">constitutionally protected law enforcement materials<\/a> from the executive branch because you want to manipulate them for potential political gain is inappropriate.\u201d <\/p>\n<h4><strong>Biden is chasing after black voters who are abandoning him <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>While Joe Biden still holds the support of the majority of black voters, Trump is closing the gap.<\/p>\n<p>Pew research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/race-and-ethnicity\/2024\/05\/20\/an-early-look-at-black-voters-views-on-biden-trump-and-election-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>poll <\/a>found that 77% of black voters support Biden and 18% support Trump \u2014 a stark 59 point difference. This current margin of support for Biden is lower than it was in 2020 and even for Hillary Clinton in 2016. <\/p>\n<p>Not only is Biden losing black voters to Trump, but some have decided they won\u2019t be participating in the November election after all. A poll found that 62% of black Americans said they were \u201cabsolutely certain to vote,\u201d down by 12% points from 2020. Compared to the country overall, intention to vote only dropped by 4% over the past four years. <\/p>\n<p>In an effort to attract black voters, Biden has earmarked $1 million of a $14 million ad campaign for black and latino media in the month of May. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, the president met with the \u201cDivine Nine,\u201d a group of leading black sororities and fraternities, and traveled to Detroit to address the NAACP\u2019s Freedom Fund Dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Neiheisel said it\u2019s crucial for black voters in Detroit and Milwaukee to show up on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/election-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Election Day<\/a> in order for Biden to win key swing states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Biden is\u00a0looking to recreate the 2012 playbook, rather than in 2016\u00a0 where assumptions were made that the coalitions were going to be there, and then they weren\u2019t,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<h4><strong>Biden administration courts young voters with weed-friendly policy changes<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The Biden administration announced a few weeks ago it planned to change marijuana from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III \u2014 classifying the drug as less dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven that it\u2019s an election year, the administration doesn\u2019t have a whole lot of levers to pull to do something positive,\u201d Wallen said. \u201cThere\u2019s so many\u00a0difficult things happening. This is one thing they can do that is positive that they can claim credit for, so I think there\u2019s a lot of political wind behind the sails of doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Legalization of marijuana is a popular policy \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-young-voters-marijuana-reclassification-dea-193e97fc2dd7b32b7d7ad50b4ea80aa0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>about<\/a> 63% of voters nationally in 2020 supported the measure, and that number increased to 73% for voters under 45. <\/p>\n<p>While marijuana is still illegal under federal law, the reclassification of the drug now opens up the opportunity for medical research, tax breaks for marijuana companies, and potentially opens up the capital markets for investment.\u00a0As a Schedule III drug, marijuana now falls under the same regulatory category as ketamine and anabolic steroids.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Biden strong mans Israel<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>In the uproar of student protests across college campuses to growing discontent among Arab Americans, Biden has been accused of being too sympathetic to Israel by key voting blocs. <\/p>\n<p>While Biden previously ignored calls to limit arms shipments to Israel while a humanitarian crisis unfolds in Gaza, that changed when he announced during a May 9 sit-down interview with CNN that he would halt American weapon shipments to Israel if Rafah was invaded. <\/p>\n<p>Biden acknowledged the fact that civilians have been killed by American-made bombs. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made it clear that if they go into Rafah \u2013 they haven\u2019t gone in Rafah yet \u2014 if they go into Rafah, I\u2019m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities \u2014 that deal with that problem,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Declaring an Israeli invasion of Gaza to be his \u201cred line,\u201d Biden paused a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs earlier this month. However, at the same time, the administration approved a $1 billion new weapons package to Israel. <\/p>\n<p>Biden also <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantaciviccircle.org\/2024\/05\/19\/biden-morehouse-israel-palestine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>called<\/a> for an immediate ceasefire during his commencement speech at Morehouse College, an HBCU in Atlanta, which many of the protesters have been urging him to do. While he was delivering the address, protesters on the perimeter were chanting, \u201cBiden, Biden, you can\u2019t hide. We charge you with genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Biden directs government money to boost get out the vote efforts <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The Biden administration has approved federal funds meant for work-study programs to be paid to students registering people to vote. <\/p>\n<p>The Education Department based its decision on Biden\u2019s Executive Order 14019, which was signed in March 2021. The order encouraged \u201cthe federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>government<\/a> to expand access to, and education about, voter registration and election information, and to combat misinformation, in order to enable all eligible Americans to participate in our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Department warns that schools that fail to comply are at risk of losing their federal funding. <\/p>\n<p>Robert Eitel, a lawyer with the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies, said the Biden administration\u2019s decision is engaging in partisan activity as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>college<\/a> campuses typically possess a higher Democratic voter demographic. <\/p>\n<p>In April, nearly 20 Republican state attorneys general called on the Department of Education to reverse its guidance calling on school administrators to use federal funds to pay students for get-out-the-vote efforts. <\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not just on college campuses that Biden is hoping to win support from newly registered voters. Earlier this month, the House Committee on Small Business subpoenaed the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/small-business-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title> Small Business Administration<\/a>, claiming the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/biden-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title> Biden administration<\/a> was possibly violating the Constitution by funneling resources to register voters in the swing state of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/michigan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Michigan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In March, the SBA and the Michigan Department of State announced a joint effort to \u201cpromote civic engagement and voter registration in Michigan,\u201d which will last through Jan. 1, 2036. This coordinated effort came from a 2021 executive order from Biden prompting federal agencies to push for greater access to voting.<\/p>\n<p>The House Small Business Committee found that 22 out of 25 of these outreach events took place in counties with the highest population of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Democratic-National-Committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Democratic National Committee<\/a>\u2019s target demographics, and 11 of 15 Michigan counties showing the largest growth in voter registration over the past year were ranked highest in young voters and black voters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s job approval rating is at a low of 38.7%, a record low for a president in their first term at this stage. Among all nine past presidents, Biden\u2019s current rating ranks him in the bottom 12% &#8211; a concerning sign with less than six months until the next presidential election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2542,"featured_media":2254102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP23257737450759.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP23257737450759.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}