![]() ![]() ![]() To the cheers of the live audience in New Hampshire, made up of Republican and independent voters, Trump left CNN’s host interviewer, Kaitlan Collins, sputtering in frustration at her failed attempts to contradict Trump’s renewed claims that he was robbed of a victory in the 2020 election, that he was not responsible for the riot at the U.S. From the outset, Trump seized full control of the program. ![]() Trump’s campaign also benefitted greatly from his domination of a CNN Presidential Town Hall, broadcast during evening prime time on Wednesday, May 10. Trump’s popularity numbers have actually improved due to the widespread perception that the charges against him are politically motivated, and that he is the victim of an unfair double standard, both in the mainstream media news coverage and in the courts. But its message has been reinforced by a Harvard-Harris poll which gave Trump a 5-point lead and a Wall Street Journal poll which had Trump 3 points ahead of Biden.ĭemocrats were also surprised and disappointed by the public’s reaction to Trump’s recent indictment on criminal charges by a Manhattan grand jury for paying hush money through his lawyer to avoid a scandal during the 2016 presidential campaign, and a $5 million civil judgment handed down last week in a lawsuit filed by a woman over a disputed incident that she claims took place almost 30 years ago. The initial reaction of the Biden team to the bad news in the Washington Post-ABC News poll was to dismiss it as an outlier. In addition, 68% of those surveyed, including a sizable percentage of Democrats, said that they think that Biden, who has been increasingly showing the effects of his age at 80, is too old to run for a second term as president. The first warning sign of Trump’s unexpectedly strong political comeback, that Democrats could no longer ignore, was a Washington Post-ABC News opinion poll showing Biden’s job approval rating at an all-time low of 36 percent, and Trump leading Biden in a head-to-head match-up by 6 points. But now some of those Democrats are having second thoughts, because, during the past three weeks, the political momentum in the 2024 race has clearly shifted in former President Donald Trump’s favor. They fear that the campaign’s slow start, with few public appearances and no unscripted encounters with the media, as well as his very light daily White House work schedule, is reinforcing the public’s impression that at the age of 80, Biden lacks the physical stamina and cognitive ability to conduct a successful national presidential campaign, followed by four more years as president.ĭemocrats had also been confidently predicting that Biden would be their strongest 2024 candidate if Donald Trump again emerges the GOP’s nominee, which appears to be increasingly likely. But just three weeks after Biden’s anti-climactic formal announcement of his candidacy, in a slickly produced 3-minute launch video, some Democrats are privately expressing their anxiety about the leisurely pace and lack of intensity of the president’s re-election operation. For more than a year, Joe Biden and his White House aides had been laying the political groundwork for launching his long-anticipated 2024 re-election campaign.
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