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Former President Donald Trump has a slight edge over Joe Biden heading into the 2024 election, according to an ABC News-Washington Post poll.
The survey results showing Trump at 48% against Biden’s 45% did not sit well with ABC’s “This Week” moderator Jon Karl, who admitted that Biden was underwater due to historic inflation and the unspoken recession.
“Our new poll this morning with the Washington Post shows significant warning signs for Democrats. More than half of the country disapproves of Biden’s job performance, weighed down by significant discontent over the economy. 40 percent say they are worse off financially than they were two years ago,” Karl said Sunday.
“The most negative response to that question in nearly 40 years of our polling, and as Biden prepares for a likely 2024 re-election campaign, less than a third of Democratic voters want to see him renominated,” Karl continued.
“Perhaps most frightening for Democrats in a hypothetical rematch of the 2020 election, Trump has a slight edge. 48 to 44 within the margin of error over Biden,” he added.
Karl later panicked over the poll results showing Republicans are more excited about Trump running again than Democrats are for Biden.
“Only 31 percent in our poll want Biden to run again. 58 percent want someone else,” Karl lamented. “Now, look at the flip side. Republican voters and you see it regarding Donald Trump. 44 percent want him to run again. I mean, much closer.”
Karl then seemed completely dumbfounded as to why Biden has such a low disapproval even among his own party.
“How is it that at this point we’re at a situation where Republicans are more enthusiastic about a Trump re-run than [Democrats] are a Biden re-election?” he asked.
Perhaps it’s because under Trump, the economy was surging and there was no inflation, there was no threat of global war, and America’s enemies were kept in check.
The poll showing Trump in the lead comes before Biden is set to deliver his second State of the Union address on Tuesday.