The House GOP just gave Biden’s campaign a huge gift
www.vox.com
Roughly 80 percent of House Republicans just lined up behind a plan to cut Social Security and ban all abortions.

Donald Trump would be on track to win a historic landslide in November — if so many US voters didn’t find him personally repugnant.

Roughly 53 percent of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of the former president. And yet, when asked about Trump’s ability to handle key issues — or the impact of his policies — voters routinely give the Republican candidate higher marks than President Biden.

In a YouGov survey released this month, Trump boasted an advantage over Biden on 10 of the 15 issues polled. On the three issues that voters routinely name as top priorities — the economy, immigration, and inflation — respondents said that Trump would do a better job by double-digit margins.

Meanwhile, in a recent New York Times/Siena College poll, 40 percent of voters said that Trump’s policies had helped them personally, while just 18 percent said the same of Biden. If Americans could elect a normal human being with Trump’s reputation for being “tough” on immigration and good at economics, they would almost certainly do so.

Biden is fortunate that voters do not have that option. But to erase Trump’s small but stubborn lead in the polls, the president needs to erode his GOP rival’s advantage on the issues.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
    353·
    8 months ago

    Bull puckey, dumps would in no way definable be “on track to win a historic landslide”.

    He didn’t win by a landslide in 2016, he lost in 2020, and he’s in a far weaker position today than in either of those elections.

    • underisk@lemmy.ml
      51·
      8 months ago

      He lost by an extremely thin margin in 2020 and that was on the back of COVID and before people had a chance to experience four years of Biden. I have no idea how you’re this confident. Does this look promising to you?

      And before you all jump down my throat thinking I want Trump to win: I hate that fucker and hope he dies before the election.

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
        21·
        8 months ago

        Has a chance? Sure.

        “On track to win a historical landslide”? Not at all. Zero evidence for that.

        That picture does not look promising or relevant.

        Don’t cast your assumptions on me to attack them; make up whatever throat-jumping stories you like, but leave me out of them.

        • mwguy@infosec.pub
          1·
          8 months ago

          “On track to win a historical landslide”? Not at all. Zero evidence for that.

          The article doesn’t claim that. It claims that a generic Republican would be on track to win a historical landslide. But not Trump because of his unfavorability.

    • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
      51·
      8 months ago

      I think you misread that line. They meant if Trump was less of a personally crazy person, but made the same accomplishments, he would be on the way to win by a landslide when you also consider bidens popularity.

      That being said hope your right. Polls don’t look great and I’d rather have them saying that trump is looking very bad.

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
        41·
        8 months ago

        I don’t think dumps would be on track to win by a landslide or even a margin taking into account all contemporary factors, including biden’s ostensible poll popularity.

        I understand the line, it does not reflect reality.