Former White House communications director Kate Bedingfield called on the Biden campaign to release the poll results on Wednesday, saying, “If they have data that supports what they see as a path to victory, they should release it now.”
“I know firsthand as much as anyone how smart the Biden team is about ignoring the data and the noise,” Bedingfield said. Said In a series of posts on social platform X, he said: “As they say, the game here is to persuade voters, not experts. But with the fight over public data overwhelmingly negative, now is a good time to make the case for my theory.”
“If they have data that supports what they see as a path to victory, they should put it out now and help rally around that data to people who desperately want to beat Trump. They want to know what that path is,” Bedingfield continued.
The Biden campaign has argued that Biden remains the Democratic candidate best positioned to beat Trump in November’s presidential election, despite Trump’s poor performance in their first debate last month. Amid the furor over the debate, the Biden campaign has, in internal messages, pointed to his polling gap against Trump and maintained that the race is “stable.”
Former President Trump is leading Biden in The Hill/Decision Desk average of national polls, with 44.4% approval rating to Biden’s 43.1%. A national Emerson College poll released Tuesday also found Trump leading Biden by 3 points among registered voters, with 46% approval rating for Trump and 43% for Biden.
National and battleground state polls released after the debate did little to ease the fears of many Democrats about whether the race was actually close, and in the past day several Democratic senators expressed deep concern about losing in November. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) told CNN he believes Biden will lose and Democrats will lose control of Congress.
ABC News reporter George Stephanopoulos interviewed the president last week, noting that Biden is trailing Trump in the polls. When asked if the polls would mean he wouldn’t seek a second term as president, the president replied, “No way, because I’m running against a pathological liar.”
Despite Biden and his allies’ continued resistance to dropping out of the 2024 race, a growing number of Democrats have publicly voiced concerns about the viability of Biden’s candidacy or explicitly called for him to drop out of the race.
The Hill has reached out to the Biden campaign for comment.
