The unofficial end of summer marked the beginning of freak-out season for some Democrats as polls from both The Wall Street Journal and CNN showed President Joe Biden in a tight race with his most likely GOP opponent, former President Donald Trump, more than a year before the election.
The Journal poll has Biden’s approval rating at just 42%, and it shows him earning 46% of the vote to Trump’s 45%. The CNN poll had Biden’s approval at a measly 39%, with the projected presidential race at 45% to 46%. Both polls found a majority of voters believed Biden was too old for the presidency and thought little of how he had handled the economy.
The polls have caused no small amount of consternation among Democrats, a party whose supporters have been in a state of near-perpetual anxiety since Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016. Some of that anxiety is warranted, but there are also reasons not to worry too much, at least not yet, about Biden’s poor standing with the public….
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