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Democrats are worried about New York.
Joe Biden won New York state by 23 points in 2020, but recent polls have shown Trump gaining momentum.
President Joe Biden has a new problem: a tight election race in heavily Democratic New York.
Elected officials, labor leaders and political consultants are panicking over polls showing a steady decline in Biden’s support in a state he won by 23 points four years ago. They’re so worried they’re trying to convince the Biden campaign to pump money into New York to bolster the campaign and boost Democratic candidates in six battleground districts that could decide control of the House of Representatives.
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But the warning signs are hard to ignore and have been growing over the past year. Two private polls conducted in New York’s congressional districts and reviewed by Politico, one in September and one in March, showed former President Donald Trump leading Biden by one point, creating a virtual tie. And public polls over the past four months have narrowed Biden’s lead across New York state to just eight points, an unusually narrow margin in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 2-to-1 margin.
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Democrats are now warning that a possible Trump return to the White House poses an existential threat to democracy and urging Biden to think seriously about New York, according to interviews with 10 Democratic officials, consultants and political leaders.
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, a Democrat, told Politico that he believes New York is “now a battleground state.”
A leading Manhattan Democrat warned Wednesday that President Biden’s plummeting approval rating in heavily Democratic New York signals the state will be a “battleground” in the 2024 election.
“We’re still operating as if this is a one-party state, and that’s been the case for almost 20, 25 years,” Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, a Democrat, told Politico.
“I truly believe we’re a battleground state right now.”
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