An NPR reporter broke some unfavorable news for President Joe Biden from the campaign Sunday.
In a roundtable on ABC News’ “This Week,” NPR correspondent Asma Khalid acknowledged that voters who typically make up the Democratic Party’s “core” lack enthusiasm for Biden’s reelection.
Khalid was pushing back against claims by Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett that voters are unfairly “glorifying” President Donald Trump’s office.
“What I’ve heard in interviews with a lot of people is a lack of enthusiasm,” she said of voters’ attitudes toward Biden. , disgruntled Republicans. ”
Khalid also suggested that the Biden campaign’s attempt to turn the 2024 campaign into a referendum on Trump, at a time when voters are most vulnerable to Biden’s policies, is a mistake.
“I would argue that there were a lot of things that went well for Biden in 2020, and that was unity and standing up to Donald Trump,” she explained. “Making this a referendum is what the Biden campaign would like to do, but it’s very difficult because many voters see this election as a referendum.” [Biden]. ”
How does she know this? Khalid said she reports directly what she hears from her constituents during her campaign.
“You know, I was just in Pennsylvania, hearing about the economy nonstop, and people are not feeling good about the economy,” she explained.
“There’s something about this nostalgia for the Trump era,” she continued. “This is the economic nostalgia that I heard from Democrats, and it really hit home for me, too. Rank-and-file Democrats were remembering how great their 401Ks were. In the next breath, they said, I would say I’m not going to vote for Trump for a variety of reasons.” There are reasons, but that’s what Joe Biden is against. ”
Election polls support anecdotes about Mr. Khalid’s campaign.
In fact, a recent ABC News investigation found that Trump showed It’s a very close race and he has a narrow lead over Biden.
But where Trump truly shines is in his response to the issues that matter most to Americans. Voters trust Trump on the economy, inflation, immigration, foreign policy, and crime.
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