Those over at CNN have been having trouble hiding their shock at recent polls showing former President Donald Trump’s rising popularity among minority voters.
The New York Times and Siena College poll, which shows black and Hispanic voters believe Trump’s policies are more beneficial than Joe Biden’s, has both Democrats and the media in panic,
CNN host Laura Coates discussed the poll’s findings and implications for Democrats as minorities shift away from leftism.
Trump’s policies, which were viewed as more favorable among minorities, caused a strong response on the show.
Coates asked Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY):
“Is that alarming to you? That nothing that the Biden campaign has said or done to this point has brought that at least closer than it is right now in this polling.”
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“The Biden administration has an incredible track record of support in making sure that it is working at all times to build an economy from the middle out and the bottom up as opposed to the top down,” Jeffries argued.
The poll also revealed that American voters signaled a preference for Trump’s policies over Biden’s
The poll showed 40% of voters believe Trump’s policies had personally benefited them, which is a notable contrast to the 18% who said the same about Biden’s policies.
Moreover, 43% of respondents believe that Biden’s initiatives have negatively affected them.
As Trending Politics noted:
The discrepancy highlighted the trend of former presidents being viewed more favorably after leaving office. One Gallup poll from June reflected the general increase in approval ratings for ex-presidents, with job performance approval jumping an average of 12 percentage points post-presidency—a phenomenon that Trump also enjoys.
The preference for Trump’s policies is particularly noteworthy, even among demographics that have been targeted by policies Democrats considered key motivators for the 2024 elections. This suggests that, for many Americans, economic issues weigh heavily in their political assessments and preferences.
The New York Times reported:
For the candidates’ own supporters, views of their policies seem to match their enthusiasm gap. Half of Mr. Biden’s 2020 supporters said his policies have not made much of a difference for them either way. The vast majority of Mr. Trump’s 2020 supporters said that his policies had helped them.
In fact, among the small number of Mr. Biden’s 2020 supporters who said they planned to vote for Mr. Trump this fall, nearly 60 percent said Mr. Biden’s policies had hurt them. Only a handful said his policies had helped them.
Mr. Biden is, however, winning among the sizable groups of voters who say that either his policies or Mr. Trump’s have not made much of a difference.
And going back to that race in 1912, who did voters end up choosing? Neither Taft, the incumbent, nor Roosevelt, his predecessor and challenger. Woodrow Wilson defeated both of them.
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