Republican and independent voters don’t have the level of political hatred for President Biden that is shown for Barack Obama and the Clintons, Jesse Watters said on “:The Five” after the GOP’s disappointing performance at Tuesday’s midterm elections.
“There’s just not the hatred for Joe Biden that there is for Barack Obama and for the Clintons. There’s not a hate-Biden vote that’s out there – when you go and Trump’s on the ballot, there’s that hate-Trump Democrat vote,” he said. “People just don’t feel the same passion against the guy.”
Watters said Biden’s rank unpopularity didn’t translate into opposing votes the way it did when Hillary Clinton was on the ballot against then-political newcomer Donald Trump in 2016. On the flip side, critics suggested independents have derision for Trump that may have translated into either electoral apathy or votes for far-left candidates like Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman over independent-minded Republicans like Dr. Mehmet Oz.
