Trump Takes 2024 Lead as Biden Approval Hits New Low, WSJ Poll Finds

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Trump Takes 2024 Lead as Biden Approval Hits New Low, WSJ Poll Finds

Unhappiness with Biden’s performance is pervasive, with economic pessimism weighing him down

By Aaron Zitner and Alex Leary
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Dec. 9, 2023 12:01 am ET

WASHINGTON—President Biden’s political standing is at its weakest point of his presidency, a new Wall Street Journal poll finds, with voters giving him his lowest job-performance marks and favoring Donald Trump for the first time in a head-to-head test of the likely 2024 presidential matchup.

Biden lags behind Trump by 4 percentage points, 47% to 43%, on a hypothetical ballot with only those two candidates. Trump’s lead expands to 6 points, 37% to 31%, when five potential third-party and independent candidates are added to the mix. They take a combined 17% support, with Democrat-turned-independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drawing the most, at 8%.

Unhappiness with Biden is pervasive in the new survey, though much of it appears among Democratic-leaning groups who might still back the president on Election Day. Only 23% of voters say Biden’s policies have helped them personally, while 53% say they have been hurt by the president’s agenda. By contrast, about half of voters say Trump’s policies when he was president helped them personally, more than the 37% who say they were hurt.

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Some 37% approve of Biden’s job performance, a low in Journal polling during his presidency, while 61% see his overall image in an unfavorable light, a record high. “Bidenomics,” the president’s signature economic platform, is viewed favorably by less than 30% of voters and unfavorably by more than half.

The findings deliver the latest shock for Biden and for Democrats, some of whom have openly fretted about the 81-year-old president’s stamina and have increasingly played up warnings of 77-year-old Trump’s potential return, casting the Republican as hellbent on retribution and a danger to democracy.

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The Wall Street Journal poll surveyed 1,500 registered voters from Nov. 29 to Dec. 4 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points. The survey was conducted through landline and cellphone interviews; some respondents were reached by text and invited to take the poll online.

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Appeared in the December 9, 2023, print edition as 'Biden’s Approval Hits a Low As Trump Leads in WSJ Poll'.

This was one comment:

Taylor Ortiz
1 hour ago

So basically no one under 50 years of age was polled… “The Wall Street Journal poll surveyed 1,500 registered voters from Nov. 29 to Dec. 4 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points. The survey was conducted through landline and cellphone interviews; some respondents were reached by text and invited to take the poll online”

The caption to each chart notes this:

Source: Wall Street Journal survey of 1,500 registered voters, conducted Nov. 29 - Dec. 4, 2023, by cellphone, landline and text-to-web; margin of error +/- 2.5 pct. pts.

[justaprogressive]

1. BULLSHIT! Why is the WSJ still considered a reliable source

OF ANYTHING !!!

[cilla4progress]

2. According to Simon Rosenberg, Hopium,

This is not the full picture...

Biden Leading in 4 New Polls - Since posting yesterday there is now a 4th national poll out this week showing Biden leading Trump. All polls via 538:

44-42 Economist/You Gov - 3 pt gain since mid-Nov

43-42 Morning Consult - 4 pt gain since last week

39-37 YouGov

37-35 Leger/The Canadian Press

https://open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc/p/biden-leading-in-4-new-polls-more?r=53ypx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

[Lovie777]

3. Some pollster has another poll showing that Haley was the one that is ..........................

4 points ahead of Pres. Biden

[gab13by13]

4. Polls are used for propaganda.

[Freethinker65]

5. Many liberal Democrats wish Biden was more to the left, so "disapprove". Those voters will not vote for Trump.

Job growth and a rebounding stock market are seen as a negative? Gas prices, and prices of many other items, coming down and/or stabilizing is bad for Biden? States controlled by the GOP taking away reproductive rights from women and families is bad for Biden? Trump taking credit for SCOTUS nominees getting rid of decades old rulings on American's rights is somehow bad for Biden? Trump admitting he wants to be a dictator and punish those with differing views is bad for Biden?

I just don't see the huge negatives against Biden. I can understand him not being someone's ideal Democratic candidate, but either voting for Trump or not voting at all? Nope.

[gab13by13]

6. This liberal disagrees,

Joe Biden has governed more to the left than Clinton and Obama.

[Turbineguy]

7. A lot of Americans must really hate themselves.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. The Wall Street Urinal is a Rupert Murdoch puplication

It used to be credible, conservative but credible till the Australian Shar Pei took over. I cancelled my subscription not long after he took over.

[lees1975]

9. Another "scare ya" poll

Hard to believe, except that the WSJ is a conservative, Republican preaching propaganda outlet.

I'd love to see the raw data for these polls, before they put in their "factors." I'd be willing to bet that the data would change drastically.

[Aristus]

10. Man, oh man, if Trump died tomorrow, the Whore Street Journal would dig him up

prop him up with two-by-fours, and run recordings of his brainless blithering 24/7 in order to keep the horse race going.