President Biden and former President Trump, who are gearing up to face off on the debate stage next month, are showing signs of weakness in their 2024 rematch, with both struggling to retain their base of voters. It seems like they are.
More than two months after withdrawing from the race for the Republican presidential nomination, zombie candidate Nikki Haley is still gaining significant support in the Republican primary at the expense of Trump.
And Biden continues to respond to a persistent “no commit” vote protesting the president’s support for Israel in its war with Hamas in Gaza.
“Most Democrats and most Republicans are going to go home. But there are so many red flags flashing in this primary,” said the longtime Republican consultant and former Republican president. campaign veteran David Kochel told Fox News Digital.
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On March 6, 2024, in Charleston, South Carolina, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced that she would be suspending her presidential campaign. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
A week after Ms. Haley won 22% of the vote in Indiana’s Republican presidential primary, which was open to independents and Democrats, nearly private votes were cast in Maryland, Nebraska and West Virginia on Tuesday. The Republican candidate election was held, and things were supposed to play out differently.
But unofficial and incomplete results show Haley won 20% in Maryland and 18% in Nebraska.
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And just as in earlier primaries after she dropped her bid for president, Haley performed best in suburban areas in both states. This is another potential issue in the general election for Trump, who is now making history as the first former or current president to be tried in a criminal case.
“Republicans may want one last chance to express their dissatisfaction with the candidate, and then they’ll come back,” said Kochel, who remained neutral in the 2024 Republican nomination race. Told.
“But if I were to lead the Trump campaign, especially leading up to the vice presidential nomination, I would want to reassure Haley’s voters that we are not just running for office, we are listening to them. , we’ll try to figure out any way we can ‘base-only strategy,”’ he suggested.
President Trump speaks to the media during a break in his criminal trial in New York City, May 13, 2024. (Seth Wenig/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Biden also received a red flag in Tuesday’s primary after just over 10% of votes in Maryland’s Democratic presidential race were “uncommitted,” according to an unofficial and incomplete tally. . This is the latest example of far-left voters expressing dissatisfaction with the president’s Middle East policy.
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The primaries were held on the eve of Biden and his re-election campaign’s proposal to hold presidential debates with Trump in June and early September, followed by a vice-presidential debate in the summer. Agreed.
Fox News contributor Mark Penn, a longtime Democratic pollster and former top political adviser to former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, claims that a presidential debate proposal has been made. , pointed to Biden’s anemic polling numbers in key battleground states. Of weakness.
President Biden arrives at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington, Friday, May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“You don’t want to have a debate when you have an advantage. You want to avoid a debate at all costs,” Penn said in an interview on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.” “Obviously, it’s a difficult situation for President Biden, otherwise he wouldn’t be debating in the first place.”
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Months of national surveys have shown that many Americans are not at all excited about a rematch between the 81-year-old Democratic incumbent and his 77-year-old predecessor in the White House.
President Biden and former President Trump have agreed to face off in debates in June and September. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon | Curtis Means/DailyMail.com, via AP, Pool)
“We’ll be pitting some of the most unpopular politicians we’ve ever seen against each other on a debate stage in front of 80 million people, including one who is notoriously bombastic, toxic and loose on the facts. , and the other one is pretty much okay.” There were six jump cuts in the 13-second video released today,” Kochel said, pointing to the video of Trump and specifically Biden proposing a debate. .
Kocher predicted that the debate “may highlight how dissatisfied the country is with these choices.”
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