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WaPo: The polls are inconclusive. Advantage Biden. [View all]
July 17, 2024 at 2:08 p.m. EDT
Biden’s bad month hasn’t led to a dramatic drop in his numbers — or really much of a drop at all.
President Biden and his supporters, in their push for him to remain the Democrats’ candidate, have been helped by a surprising source: the polls.
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But another reason Biden can’t be dislodged easily is polling. If the president had no path to victory and another Democrat had a clear one, I suspect there would be much more momentum behind the calls for him to leave the race. But neither of those conditions exist. The president is just barely behind Trump in Michigan (3 percentage points) and Pennsylvania (less than 1 point) and effectively tied in Wisconsin, according to polling averages from The Post. (Other news organizations have slightly different averages, but they generally show very tight margins in those three states.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/17/inconclusive-polls-help-biden/
Biden’s bad month hasn’t led to a dramatic drop in his numbers — or really much of a drop at all.
President Biden and his supporters, in their push for him to remain the Democrats’ candidate, have been helped by a surprising source: the polls.
(snip)
But another reason Biden can’t be dislodged easily is polling. If the president had no path to victory and another Democrat had a clear one, I suspect there would be much more momentum behind the calls for him to leave the race. But neither of those conditions exist. The president is just barely behind Trump in Michigan (3 percentage points) and Pennsylvania (less than 1 point) and effectively tied in Wisconsin, according to polling averages from The Post. (Other news organizations have slightly different averages, but they generally show very tight margins in those three states.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/17/inconclusive-polls-help-biden/
So it seems the step-down chorus is not motivated by polling. What are they motivated by?
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