President Joe Biden, who claimed he was going to be the most transparent President ever, rarely even holds a news conference.
And when he does, Joe Biden never calls on Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy.
In fact, we now know in those rare official news conferences, Biden has a pre-printed list of reporters he is allowed to call on.
Even more embarrassing, he also has a cheat sheet for his answers which clearly implies that the journalists allowed to ask questions get selected for that role only after they’ve agreed to submit all their questions for Biden in advance.
But sometimes, during informal and often impromptu media questioning, Biden will mistakenly pick Doocy for a question.
That’s one reason why these informal gaggles are a source of severe stress for Biden staffers since they aren’t scripted for him in advance.
And it’s at these informal press gatherings that Biden makes his biggest blunders.
Doocy recently asked Biden a question about the most recent New York Times/Siena polls of six key battleground states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Nevada – where Trump now leads in five of the swing states.
🇺🇲 2024 GE: NYT/Siena Research poll (A+), among likely voters.
NEVADA
Trump 52% (+11)
Biden 41%
PENNSYLVANIA
Trump 49% (+5)
Biden 44%
ARIZONA
Trump 49% (+5)
Biden 44%
GEORGIA
Trump 49% (+5)
Biden 44%
MICHIGAN
Trump 46% (=)
Biden 46%
WISCONSIN
Biden 47% (+2)
Trump 45%… pic.twitter.com/FmxdSfTsZX
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) November 5, 2023
🇺🇲 2024 GE: NYT/Siena Research poll (A+), among likely voters.
NEVADA
Trump 52% (+11)
Biden 41%
.
PENNSYLVANIA
Trump 49% (+5)
Biden 44%
.
ARIZONA
Trump 49% (+5)
Biden 44%
.
GEORGIA
Trump 49% (+5)
Biden 44%
.
MICHIGAN
Trump 46% (=)
Biden 46%
.
WISCONSIN
Biden 47% (+2)
Trump 45%… pic.twitter.com/FmxdSfTsZX— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) November 5, 2023
This question by the Fox reporter caused Biden to snap.
“You don’t read the polls, obviously!” Biden angrily shouted back claiming other polls showed him beating Trump.
But as usual Biden clearly has no idea what he’s talking about.
In fact, Emerson Polling released another set of polls from those same six swing states and – once again – Trump led Biden in five of the contests.
🇺🇲 2024 GE: @EmersonPolling (A-)
GEORGIA
Trump 49% (+8)
Biden 41%
PENNSYLVANIA
Trump 49% (+4)
Biden 45%
NEVADA
Trump 47% (+3)
Biden 44%
ARIZONA
Trump 46% (+2)
Biden 44%
WISCONSIN
Trump 45% (=)
Biden 45%
MICHIGAN
Biden 45% (+2)
Trump 43%
4,303 LV | 10/30-11/4 | MoE:… pic.twitter.com/MbEUe5vua6
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) November 9, 2023
🇺🇲 2024 GE: @EmersonPolling (A-)
GEORGIA
Trump 49% (+8)
Biden 41%
.
PENNSYLVANIA
Trump 49% (+4)
Biden 45%
.
NEVADA
Trump 47% (+3)
Biden 44%
.
ARIZONA
Trump 46% (+2)
Biden 44%
.
WISCONSIN
Trump 45% (=)
Biden 45%
.
MICHIGAN
Biden 45% (+2)
Trump 43%4,303 LV | 10/30-11/4 | MoE:… pic.twitter.com/MbEUe5vua6
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) November 9, 2023
But the bad news for Biden doesn’t stop there.
CBS and CNN also released polls showing Trump leading Biden.
And the RealClearPolitics polling average also shows Trump holding a lead over Biden.
These poll numbers are causing Democrats to question more urgently whether Biden should remain their nominee.
They thought the criminal charges left-wing prosecutors have brought against Trump would guarantee Biden won re-election.
But what the polls continue to show is that Americans preferred life under Donald Trump.
The New York Times poll found that Americans, by a 17-point margin, believe Donald Trump’s policies made their lives better and that by an 18-point margin, they said Joe Biden made their lives worse.
Biden is swimming upstream against a potential political red tide Democrats never thought they would face and the panic is starting to show.
And so is Joe Biden’s increasingly frail mental state.
Political Animal News will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
