NYT Admits Biden Trails Trump As Leadership and Policy Concerns Surface

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NYT Admits Biden Trails Trump As Leadership and Policy Concerns Surface

A recent Times/Siena poll indicates President Biden faces doubts about his leadership within his party and dissatisfaction with the nation's direction, trailing Donald Trump as the general-election contest nears. Biden's 43% support falls behind Trump's 48%. Concerns over Biden's policies are evident, with more voters feeling harmed than helped by them. The New York Times reported the poll signals weaknesses within the Democratic coalition, particularly among women, young, Black, and Latino voters.

Trump, however, maintains stronger party unity. More from the Times:

Mr. Trump’s ability to consolidate the Republican base better than Mr. Biden has unified the base of his own party shows up starkly in the current thinking of 2020 voters. Mr. Trump is winning 97 percent of those who say they voted for him four years ago, and virtually none of his past supporters said they are casting a ballot for Mr. Biden. In contrast, Mr. Biden is winning only 83 percent of his 2020 voters, with 10 percent saying they now back Mr. Trump.

“It’s going to be a very tough decision — I’m seriously thinking about not voting,” said Mamta Misra, 57, a Democrat and an economics professor in Lafayette, La., who voted for Mr. Biden in 2020. “Trump voters are going to come out no matter what. For Democrats, it’s going to be bad. I don’t know why they’re not thinking of someone else.”

Mr. Trump’s five-point lead in the survey, which was conducted in late February, is slightly larger than in the last Times/Siena national poll of registered voters in December. Among the likely electorate, Mr. Trump currently leads by four percentage points.

In last year’s survey, Mr. Trump led by two points among registered voters and Mr. Biden led by two points among the projected likely electorate.

One of the more ominous findings for Mr. Biden in the new poll is that the historical edge Democrats have held with working-class voters of color who did not attend college continues to erode.

RELATED: Trump leads Biden among Hispanics, registered voters overall: poll (Fox News)

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