A pollster who once worked for former President Bill Clinton said that dumping President Joe Biden would not help Democrats in the 2024 election because of the president’s poor rating on multiple issues.
Pollster and commentator Mark Penn told “America Reports” co-hosts Dana Perino and Bill Hemmer that even if Vice President Kamala Harris stepped in to replace Biden, crime, inflation and immigration would still drag Democrats down.
Multiple Democrats have called on Biden to end his reelection campaign since he delivered a poor performance during a June 27 debate with former President Donald Trump hosted by CNN.
“Will Vice President Harris do better? Her poll numbers are slightly below Joe Biden’s. Take him out, put her in — I don’t actually think it changes, to be honest,” Penn said. “People aren’t really voting on this. They are voting because inflation is bad, immigration is bad, crime is bad and they give this administration a low rating. If he had ratings in the 50s, nobody would care what he said anywhere.”
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On inflation, the Consumer Price Index rose by 3.0% year-over-year in June, slightly below economists’ expectations for that month and down from a high of 9.1% in June 2022, but prices have climbed by over 20% since Biden took office. Only 35.6% approve of Biden’s performance on immigration, according to a RealClearPolling average.
Illegal immigration has become a prominent issue in the 2024 campaign after a series of crimes involving illegal immigrants. Authorities in Oklahoma arrested 23-year-old Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, for the August 2023 murder of 37-year-old Rachel Morin in Maryland June 14, while the murders of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old girl in Texas, have also led to criticism of Biden’s policy on the border.
United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported the Border Patrol had just under 7.2 million encounters with illegal immigrants since the start of fiscal year 2021. Biden has a 61.8% disapproval rating on immigration, according to RealClearPolling’s average of polls.
Biden also has come under fire on crime, with only 38.3% of Americans approving of his handling of the issue, according to RealClearPolling.
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