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President Joe Biden and his White House got some disastrous news for his reelection chances as he prepares to face the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump.
The new Bloomberg/Morning Consult swing state poll showed that the former president is dominating in swing states.
The poll showed him ahead by seven points in Arizona (49 percent-42 percent), six points in Georgia (49 percent – 43 percent), eight points in Nevada (51 percent – 43 percent), ten points in North Carolina (51 percent – 41 percent), four points in Wisconsin (48 percent – 44 percent) and one point in Pennsylvania (47 percent -46 percent).
The only state that the president finds himself leading the former president in is Michigan, and that is by 2 points, 47 percent -45 percent.
The poll showed that a whopping 70 percent of voters in the swing states surveyed said the economy is on the “wrong track,” and 51 percent of them said they have more trust for Trump on the economy, whereas only 36 percent said they trust Biden more.
And even the promising news for President Biden in Michigan has a massive caveat as the war between Israel and Hamas continues.
The president is facing a protest vote from Muslims in Michigan, but Newsweek deputy opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon said the issue for President Biden is greater than the Muslim protest vote due to the United States handling of the war between Israel and Hamas.
“Should Democrats be worried about the 100,000 ‘uncommitted’ votes in the Michigan primary?” HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher said in March.
“I read about this. Will protest votes over Biden’s policy in Gaza cost him the election in November? Michigan just had a primary, and Michigan has a large Muslim population and they are not thrilled Joie Biden is supporting Israel in its war. So 100,000 people, Democratic voters, voted “uncommitted.” They seem to be saying we are threatening to support Trump, a known lover of Muslims. But this is a wedge issue in the Democratic Party. Young people, the kids, and Muslim voters like this don’t want him supporting Israel. Many other people do. What are your thoughts?” he said.
But the Newsweek editor said it is not only the Muslim vote that the president needs to be concerned about.
“The media really wants to put this narrative out there that Biden is going to lose Michigan over Gaza, when the truth is he’s going to lose Michigan over 600,000 auto workers because his EV market was extremely punishing to auto workers,” she said.
“And there’s been this big realignment where working-class Americans are very much on the Trump train. People who used to be Democrats and used to vote for Democrats. Rather than admit that, this outrage that the Democrats lost the working class vote, and try to figure out how we can appeal to them, they are looking for excuses and other things to blame — like this war in Gaza, or they’re deplorable or racists,” the editor said.
“Because they don’t want to admit that Trump has picked up a lot of the policies that used to be Democrat policies in the 1990s, like controlling the border, for example. The idea is that an open border and mass migration is extremely punishing to the working class and drives down their wages. It is class warfare against the working class.
“It is an upward transfer of wealth from the working class who end up competing with immigrants, to the elites who end up employing the. And now they can employ cheap immigrants instead of having to pay Americans a living wage,” she said.
Biden won the Democratic Michigan primary with 623,415 votes or 81.1 percent, but “Uncommitted” numbered 101,436 votes, or 13.2 percent, and gained two delegates.
