In an election year when the Left has sounded the alarm about “misinformation and disinformation,” the biggest falsehood may be about this election itself — and it’s coming from the legacy media.
Every corner of the media insists the 2024 presidential election will be razor-thin.
“An expensive, personal, very close presidential race careens toward an uncertain end,” says NBC News.
“Biden, Trump in close race with 6 months until presidential election,” reports CBS News.
“Trump and Biden are ‘darn near even’ in the 2024 election. Here’s where the race could go,” according to USA Today.
But what if the election isn’t going to be close? That’s exactly the scenario presented by a recent poll.
America could be looking at a Ronald Reagan-style landslide, with President Donald Trump piling up as many as 49 states, according to the new poll.
If the election were held today, Donald Trump would trounce Joe Biden by an incredible 10 points, burying Biden’s blue assault in huge red tidal wave.
BREAKING: Rasmussen poll: Trump crushes Biden with a 12-point lead pic.twitter.com/xf2A1msF6V
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) May 3, 2024
Seeing Trump’s 10-point lead, the Left is freaking out—and rightly so.
“Polls are not predictions, to be sure, but to place this data into an appropriate context, the last time a presidential candidate won the national popular vote by ten points was 30 years ago, when Ronald Reagan won 49 states,” reports New York Magazine (accurately, for once).
Trump crushes the metrics on every front.
Trump supporters are nine points more likely to say they’re “very excited” about the election than Biden voters. Registered Republicans have a 15-point lead in excitement.
Trump wins by keeping his votes and attracting independents. Eight out of 10 Republicans say they’ll vote for Trump, compared to seven out of 10 Democrats backing the incumbent.
But when it comes to Biden’s campaign, Rasmussen only has bad news and worse news.
The bad news is: Biden would lose a three-way race. The worse news is: Biden isn’t in three-way race.
When you count all five challengers—Trump, Biden, Kennedy, Cornel West, and Jill Stein—Rasmussen has Biden losing the election by 12 points.
That makes sense, since all three of the major third-party candidates are on the progressive Left, as The Horn detailed almost six months ago.
Donald Trump faces third-party challenges from the Right, as well—but they don’t threaten him.
In fact, the Libertarian Party invited Trump to headline their convention.
Smart campaign strategists would try to improve Biden’s campaign—and maybe even his presidency—to gain support from American voters…but the Left is too ideologically driven to do that. Instead, the Democrats doubled-down on shoving Biden down America’s throat, denying the facts, and getting their friends in the legacy media to shoot the messenger.
“Everything we know about contemporary politics indicates the 2024 election will be close,” says New York Magazine, despite polls showing Trump leading in nearly every swing state.
People who say Biden will lose are just “leaping on individual polls or even short-term trends in averages,” and they’re engaging in “spin rather than analysis,” claims the article…but then the author engages in a little spin of his own.
“Overall, it’s reasonably clear that the Biden-Trump race remains very close in terms of the national popular vote,” writes Ed Kilgore.
That may be true—but it’s also a red herring: Presidents are not elected by the national popular vote. The Constitution demands that candidates win the majority of votes in the Electoral College, which means winning the right combination of large and small states to represent all the American people.
Since Democrats mostly represent secular, heavily urbanized states with large illegal immigrant populations—and high crime rates—they’ve promoted a scheme to replace the Electoral College with a “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.” The Horn described this attempt to sabotage the American system, and maximizing the liberals’ chances of winning future elections, here.
Kilgore eventually admits that he sees “Trump maintaining a small advantage in winning enough battleground states to secure the 270 electoral votes necessary for victory.” But if you’re denying the trends and flogging irrelevant facts about the “national popular vote,” who’s engaging in spin?
Things look so bad for Biden that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called on the president to drop out of the race and let RFK Jr. represent the progressive movement.
At a campaign event on May 1, RFK Jr. rolled out a poll from John Zogby showing Kennedy would defeat Donald Trump in a head-to-head election this November.
“Is there any scenario in which President Trump participates in the election and doesn’t win it? Yes, there is exactly one. And that scenario is that President Biden acknowledges that he cannot win,” said RFK Jr.’s wife and campaign manager, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy.
A Democratic aide replied that calling on Biden to leave the race is “deeply unserious”—not to mention extremely bad for his paycheck.
It may end up being a close election, and everyone should vote—and make sure their neighbors vote—as if it is. But nobody can deny Biden has drive his country into a ditch, and right now, it doesn’t look like he can dig himself out of the hole.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”