President Joe Biden has seen his approval ratings crater since taking office, and he’s still dealing with some long-running issues according to a bombshell new poll.
Not to worry! Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., went on ABC News to make excuses for Biden’s failure to motivate voters.
The hosts on The View asked Schumer to explain.
“President Biden’s state of the Union doubled as a soft launch — Soft launch! — for 2024, and President Biden has made historic accomplishments, which you were speaking to,” co-host Sarah Haines remarked.
“But an ABC News poll… says voters are less enthused about Biden running again that Trump. Now, can you explain the disconnect between what we are seeing in the successes and what the polling is showing?”
Schumer said you can’t trust polls.
Then, the New York senator attributed Biden’s polling woes to some messaging problems, instead of more substantive differences from the voters.
“First, you can’t always believe polling. There was a poll in 1983 that said Ronald Reagan would get clobbered, and of course, he won a huge victory,” Schumer said.
“But second, I think that part of it is we now have to make sure the American people — they’ve read what we have done, but they haven’t seen it. The second year is going to be a year of implementing, getting the good things we did out. Let me tell you two things that just started. Anyone over 65 will only pay $35 for insulin. That’s a huge thing for people who have diabetes. They may have read about it six months ago.”
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg chimed in, “Thank you!”
The poll found only 7 percent of Americans “enthusiastic” about the possibility of a Biden victory in 2024, with another 29 percent “satisfied but not enthusiastic.”
By comparison, the poll found 26 percent “satisfied” with a second term for former President Donald Trump, and it found 17 percent “enthusiastic” about the possibility.
ABC’s pollsters randomly sampled 1,003 adults in the U.S. between Jan. 27 and Feb. 1, and they estimated the margin of error at 3.5 points.
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Chuck Schumer on polls showing voters don't want Biden to run in 2024:
"First, you can't always believe polling … second, I think part of it is that we now have to make sure the American people—they've read what we have done, but they haven't seen it." pic.twitter.com/ZM1s3lSwc9
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) February 13, 2023
Schumer also discussed the news of the day, like the “high-altitude object” shot down over Lake Huron.
Co-host Alyssa Farrah Griffin, a “conservative,” pressed Schumer on his statements about making an exception to Senate rules.
Schumer said, “We think voting rights is so important that it’s worth changing the rules.
Goldberg chimed in again to agree.
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