Daily Broadside | Most People Don’t Want a Rematch in 2024, But The Majority Don’t Like Where We Are Now

Daily Verse | Ecclesiastes 7:10
Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?”
For it is not wise to ask such questions.

Thursday’s Reading: Song of Songs 1-8

Happy Thursday, my friends.

Dots? Those aren’t “dots” — those are stains. Stains on the beauty and promise of America.

Fortunately, normal Americans — including many independents, and even some of the blue-stained Americans — are preparing to send a massive rebuke this fall.

One and a half years since President Joe Biden took office, Americans give President Biden a negative 31 – 60 percent job approval rating, the lowest score of his presidency, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea- ack) University national poll of adults released today.

Republicans (94 – 2 percent) and independents (67 – 23 percent) disapprove, while Democrats approve (71 – 18 percent).

Registered voters give President Biden a negative 33 – 59 percent job approval rating, his lowest approval rating among registered voters in a Quinnipiac University national poll.

Americans were asked about President Biden’s handling of…
• the response to the coronavirus: 50 percent approve, while 43 percent disapprove;
• the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: 40 percent approve, while 52 percent disapprove;
• foreign policy: 36 percent approve, while 55 percent disapprove;
• gun violence: 32 percent approve, while 61 percent disapprove;
• the economy: 28 percent approve, while 66 percent disapprove.

Republicans loathe Brandon, while Independents aren’t far behind. Blue-haired, nose-ringed beta weenies who don’t know what a woman is still think he’s fab.

Roughly 7 in 10 Americans (71 percent) say they would not like to see Joe Biden run for president in 2024, while 24 percent say they would like to see him seek a second term. Among Democrats, 54 percent say they would not like to see Biden run in 2024, while 40 percent say they would.

More than 6 in 10 Americans (64 percent) say they would not like to see Donald Trump run for president in 2024, while 32 percent say they would like to see him run. Among Republicans, 69 percent say they would like to see Trump run in 2024, while 27 percent say they would not.

America doesn’t like either Brandon or Trump. But if Trump is the eventual Republican nominee, I will crawl naked over broken glass to vote for him. I would prefer mean tweets and $1.98 gas over the “undistinguished, comically malevolent, supererogatory, opportunistic” empty suit currently masquerading as the Resident (thank you, Michael Walsh).

Then there’s the most recent CNN poll:

Americans question President Joe Biden’s priorities in new CNN polling released Monday that highlighted widespread displeasure with the direction the country is heading.

The latest CNN poll showed that 68% of U.S. adults believe Biden’s priorities are wrong and that the president hasn’t paid enough attention to critical issues facing Americans, like the economy and inflation. This is up 10% from November 2021, when the data was last tracked, according to the poll.
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The data showed that 79% of Americans said the U.S. is doing “pretty or very badly,” and 34% said it is doing “very badly.” Only one percent of U.S. adults believe the country is doing “very well,” and only 21% think it’s doing “very or fairly well,” according to the poll.

Comparatively, in June 2019, the poll showed that 18% of U.S. adults felt the country was doing “very well,” and 57% said the U.S. was doing “very or fairly well.”

When respondents were asked how the country is fairing economically, only one percent of U.S. adults said it is doing “very good,” and 18% said it was doing “good,” the data showed. Over 80% of Americans told the poll the economic conditions in the U.S. were “poor,” and 41% said they were “very poor.”

In May 2019, the poll reported that almost 30% of U.S. adults said the economy was “very good,” and 70% said the U.S. had a good economy.

Note that in May and June 2019, the president was Donald J. Trump. Now, a year-and-a-half into Brandon’s residency, “U.S. inflation climbed 9.1% over the past 12 months since Biden told Americans on July 19, 2021, that the rising costs facing Americans would be temporary.”

American is back, baby!

In addition to Brandon’s cratering ratings, Trump is racking up the victories in endorsements. His record is 147-10 this year, and he’s been perfect in 22 states. The latest win was his endorsement of Dan Cox in the Maryland primaries over current anti-Trump governor Larry Hogan’s hand-picked successor, Kelly Schulz, in the Republican gubernatorial primary.

This may be the way to defeat the GOP career elitists who sit on their ample bottoms in Washington, D.C. and lift nary a finger to fight the Democrats — primary by primary, placing MAGA candidates in positions of power and getting them to D.C., where, if Trump is reelected, he’d have an army of Congresscritters to help him implement an America-first agenda.

That’s not to say that I prefer Trump as my candidate, by the way. I’d love to see Ron DeSantis throw his hat in the ring. But if it is Trump … I will do the needful.