This month marks one year since the presidency of Joe Biden was drawing to its effective close.
The 46th U.S. president and 47th U.S. vice president and six-term U.S. senator from Delaware had a low job approval consistently in the 30s percentile range.
This clearly pointed to a Republican pickup year and a non-consecutive second-term re-election for 45th and, now, 47th U.S. president Donald Trump.
What eventually undid Biden is that the party support ended.
For numerous reasons.
Among them:
• Polls showed there were self-identified Democrats who would not vote to re-elect Biden
• More states, beyond the 31 carried by Trump, were emerging as potential GOP pickups
This was also a problem with donors letting the Democratic Party Establishment know, given this and other considerations (like Biden’s condition), they would not contribute to Team Blue.
Add to this that Trump, who could have gone on to win not 31 but more like 41 states, meant that approximately ten more states would become vulnerable to Democrats not only at the presidential level…but also for U.S. House and, for those on the schedule, U.S. Senate. Devastating downballot impact.
On July 21, 2024, Biden dropped out.
(I know there is no need to write more in depth about this. We are well-aware. But it ended up, for me, one more reason why I reject the Democratic Party.)
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