Is Joe Biden in free fall?  | The Hill

In addition to overall polling, two specific polls one by Rasmussen and one by Bloomberg/Morning Consult shed new light on what could be an ominous new trend for Democrats. If true and a trend, then there is no light at the end of the tunnel for Biden next November. 

National polls were already bad for the incumbent president. According to Real Clear Politics s Dec. 14 average of national polls, Biden trailed GOP frontrunner Donalf Trump 44.1 percent to 47.3 percent. He also trailed in twelve of the fourteen polls used to make that average; Biden led in only one and that by a scant 1 percent and was tied in the other. On Nov. 14, the same RCP average showed Trump ahead by just 0.8 of a percentage point; on Aug. 14, Biden led by 0.7 of a percentage point. For an average of national polls, these are large changes in a short time.  

The impact of today s Trump lead is only compounded by the fact that Biden won in 2020 s popular vote by 4.4 percentage points, even as he squeaked out an Electoral College victory by winning six states by less than 3 percent of their popular vote. That effectively means that Biden is actually 7.6 percentage points behind where he needs to be to beat the former president again in 2024. 

So, what specifically made this generally bad news even worse for Biden? 

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