President Biden helped by trump dynamics
" . . . THE ALMIGHTY VS. THE ALTERNATIVE, CONT’D — The burst of reporting reconsidering the conventional wisdom that Democrats will be crushed in the 2022 midterms continues this week. Most of the pieces emphasize that the return of Trump — through the Jan. 6 committee, the fringe candidates he’s backing and the multiple investigations he faces — could help Democrats bury their differences with anti-Trump Republicans and independents and unite into a majority coalition similar to the one that fueled Dem victories in the Trump-centered elections of 2018 and 2020.
Trump helps Biden because the former is even more unpopular than the latter. As Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter recently noted: “While neither Biden nor Trump are popular, Trump is the more polarizing. New polling from NBC News finds Trump's net favorable ratings (-18) to be twice as bad as Biden's (-8). That same dynamic is showing up in swing states like Arizona, where a recent FOX News poll finds Trump's net favorable at -20 to Biden's -10, and Wisconsin, where the FOX poll showed Biden's net favorable ratings at (-6) compared with Trump's (-10). . . ”
www.politico. com/playbook, 8/29/2022
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