As of Monday, former President Donald Trump held a slim lead over his successor in the Real Clear Politics national polling average. The 45th president was ahead of the 46th president in eight of the last 12 nationwide surveys aggregated by the site. Earlier this month, a New York Times poll set off heart palpitations among Democrats, as it showed Trump on top by five percentage points overall, among a number of other red flags -- especially the emergence of additional cracks within Biden's 2020 victory coalition.
When President Biden was asked about jitters among his allies over his standing with voters, he dismissed the concerns like this:
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— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 5, 2024
REPORTER: "What's your message to Democrats who are concerned about your poll numbers?"
BIDEN: "My poll numbers? The last five polls you guys don't report. I'm winning — five! Five in a row!" pic.twitter.com/Mz5gWQMRSA
You don't report the good polls is a bizarre and unfounded gripe against the pro-Biden 'news' media. The press would love to revel in better news for their preferred candidate and party. The reason they hadn't highlighted Biden's "last five polls" with him in the lead is because they didn't exist. Either Biden is inventing numbers in his head, or his staff is only showing him the happy news. If it's the latter, I'd expect that the president may be shielded from the latest ABC News data, which we also flagged in a post yesterday:
New ABC poll on issue trust
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 10, 2024
Economy:
49% Trump
37% Biden
Inflation:
45% Trump
31% Biden
Crime:
41% Trump
35% Biden
Immigration/Border:
45% Trump
29% Biden
Trump plus 12 on the economy, plus 14 on inflation, plus six on crime, and plus 16 on immigration -- the largest gap. Democrats have long hoped that the border crisis would be largely ignored by the public, with an assist from the press, but that hasn't worked. Their latest plan is to blame Republicans for failing to pass Biden's preferred immigration bill, ignoring the many consequential executive steps Biden could take unilaterally to vastly mitigate the problem. He refuses. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tried to spin this away by claiming that criticisms of the administration on this front are "literally not true," and that Biden merely ended family separation policies. "He got rid of the policy to tear children out of the arms of their parents, that’s true, but it is not true some of the other things that have been suggested," Buttigieg said in a fiery CNBC interview. Shameless gaslighting. Don't ask me, ask Biden's DHS Secretary, from early 2021:
NEVER FORGET how proud they were to completely dismantle our border.
— Senate Republicans (@SenateGOP) February 29, 2024
Joe Biden’s border visit is nothing but a photo-op. pic.twitter.com/PIJLIHP7gH
On Fox News Sunday, Buttigieg also claimed that 'everyone' agrees that the border is a problem -- but the top brass in the Biden administration spent the better part of three years insisting that there was no crisis, and that the border was 'closed' and 'secure.' Roughly 10 million illegal entries later, including approaching two million known got-aways, Team Biden has finally decided that the border matters (politically, at least), and that the disaster they've deliberately unleashed is the fault of the opposition party. Unfortunately for them, based on the numbers above, voters aren't buying it. Voters are, however, placing immigration at the top of their most 'important issues' list, per Gallup, which also found a notably high degree of concern over the problem:
A majority of Americans say that “large numbers of immigrants entering the United States illegally” is a critical threat to U.S. vital interests. pic.twitter.com/OLfehHIUVf
— GallupNews (@GallupNews) March 11, 2024
Biden's 'parole' policy was one link in the chain that led to the murder of Georgia student Laken Riley. Hell of a vetting job here, per the New York Post:
"The Venezuelan migrant charged with murdering Laken Riley has been identified as member of a deadly gang...[he] is listed as part of the deadly Tren de Aragua gang on internal Department of Homeland Security documents seen by The Post." https://t.co/3rHnnCojuJ
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 10, 2024
This is the man Biden has apologized for calling 'illegal.' Speaking of which, the White House is quasi-trying to pretend that he didn't do what he did:
Biden spokeswoman Olivia Dalton now claims Biden didn't actually apologize for calling Laken Riley's illegal alien killer an "illegal."
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 11, 2024
FACT: Biden not only apologized, he said illegal aliens "built this country." pic.twitter.com/4GBotgwKjP
He said he regretted his comment and corrected himself. That's an apology. But he's never expressed regret on another related front:
Not only did he fail to apologize to the US agents he smeared, he declared them guilty & forced a lengthy persecution of them. Over a lie. But he was bullied into apologizing for calling Laken Riley's killer 'illegal' in about two days. Morally twisted and astoundingly weak. https://t.co/grIkh4N0v5
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 11, 2024
I'll leave you with this, since we mentioned 'known got-aways' earlier. Endless:
NEW: Per CBP internal data via sources, there were nearly 1,200 known gotaways recorded at the border yesterday alone.
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) March 11, 2024
A reminder, gotaways are not included in the monthly border numbers. They are tracked internally. There have been over 1.8 million recorded since start of FY21. pic.twitter.com/oNGusAFesd
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