Byron York’s Daily Memo: Biden poll plunge continues | Washington Examiner

As president, Biden is hemorrhaging clout. With every drop in his approval rating comes a drop in his influence on Capitol Hill, on his ability to push, cajole, and threaten members of Congress to do what he wants. At the moment, he is trying to get Democrats to agree to a new spending plan in the $1.9 trillion range. That is down from Hill Democratic leaders’ $3.5 trillion target, which was down from somewhere in the $6 trillion range of progressives’ dreams.

In addition, a president’s job approval rating is one of the key factors determining how well his party does in midterm elections. Unless Biden can reverse the current direction of his polls, he will be a drag on his party, which already faces a struggle to keep its exceedingly tenuous grip on power on Capitol Hill.

Plus: Grinnell asked a question that is discussed nearly every day but rarely actually asked at this point. “If the general election were held today, and the candidates for president were Joe Biden for the Democrats and Donald Trump for the Republicans, for whom would you vote Biden, Trump, someone else, or would you not vote?” The pollsters found the results dead even 40% for Biden vs. 40% for Trump. Equally important, 14% said they would vote for someone else, while 4% said they weren’t sure, and 1% said they would not vote.

Of course, 2024 might not be a Biden-Trump matchup at all. It’s fair to say that for a variety of reasons, there is a huge amount of uncertainty about who will be the Democratic and Republican standard bearers. But Joe Biden’s problems are much more immediate than 2024. The more he sinks, the less he can do, right here, right now.

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I devoutly hope it’s not Trump. I would consider voting for DeSantis. But more than that I fear a much greater dissolution. But just because I knew we would stop teaching in classrooms a few weeks before anyone was talking about it and strongly suspected the virus origin was the lab, doesn’t make me a prophet. I’m just someone obsessed by the news. And my imagination tends toward the dark. Optimism is generally said to be much healthier.