Incumbent President Joe Biden losing the 2024 election to former President Donald Trump, according to aggregate polls.
Biden is well aware of his polling deficits, according to a shocking report from NBC News… and he’s very upset about it.
NBC News conducted “interviews with nearly 20 lawmakers, present and past administration officials and Biden allies,” and the outlet reported on a pattern of outbursts and second-guessing in the Biden White House.
The outlet reported Sunday —
In a private meeting at the White House in January, allies of the president had just told him that his poll numbers in Michigan and Georgia had dropped over his handling of the war between Israel and Hamas… He began to shout and swear, a lawmaker familiar with the meeting said.
He believed he had been doing what was right, despite the political fallout, he told the group, according to the lawmaker.
Pundits and strategists have long remained divided about the most effective image for Biden’s campaign. Some have encouraged Biden to appear in public only sparingly, and others have urged Biden to live his normal life publicly, with bicycling and all.
Now, if this NBC News report is to be believed, Biden’s team has made a decision.
“He’s probably a little mad at himself for not being more forceful with the staff,” an insider told NBC News.
Sure enough, Biden has reportedly been issuing pointed directions to his speechwriters.
A confidant of the speechwriters told NBC News that Biden had asked to ditch the broad sloganeering about democracy and preferred to list his actions instead. A second confidant added that Biden had asked his speechwriters to list achievements applicable to his audiences.
Some Democrat lawmakers slammed Biden’s outbursts.
Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash, told the outlet, “We don’t have time for him to be worried about whether or not people are saying things right or the poll numbers are where they should be. I want focused energy and not defensive anger.”
Meanwhile, Symone D. Sanders of MSNBC appeared on television to defend Biden’s anger.
Sanders said, “If I were running for election against a person like Donald Trump… and you saw polls that said I was losing to him, even I would be like, ‘What is going on here in America?'”
Take a look at her comments —
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