President Joe Biden’s approval among Americans has slumped to one of its lowest levels while public disapproval has shot up based on recent numbers.
The president’s current rating is similar to that of his predecessor Donald Trump who had a 41 percent approval at this point during his presidency.
Late last month, Mr. Trump carried a three-point lead over Mr. Biden, the first time that the GOP candidate bested the current president in the Morning Consult poll.
Mr. Biden’s presidential campaign recently revealed that it raised more than $72 million for reelection between April 25 and the end of June. The funds came from nearly 400,000 donors, with 97 percent of donations under $200. Mr. Biden’s 2020 campaign had raised $1 billion in donations.
Critical Youth Votes
A critical part of who wins the 2024 presidential race could fall on youth votes. In a June 15 blog post, John Della Volpe, an adviser to Mr. Biden, pointed out that when a Democrat presidential nominee garners 60 percent of the youth vote, Democrats win. “Otherwise, it’s ugly for them.”In 2008, Obama won 66 percent of votes among 18–29-year-olds. In 2012, he received 60 percent of their votes. In 2020, Mr. Biden also won 60 percent of the youth votes. Other candidates like Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton failed to meet this target.
Mr. Volpe credits Mr. Biden with flipping five battleground states in 2020 “in large part due to the combination of record-level turnout and youth support.” Even though voters aged 45 and above in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin voted for Mr. Trump in the battle, Mr. Biden got support from the under-30 voters.
In 2022, Democrats once more lost voters aged 45 and above in these states, winning again due to the support among millennial and Zoomer voters.
“Nearly every sign that made me confident in historic levels of youth participation in 2018, 2020, and 2022—is now flashing red,” Volpe wrote. He pointed out that fewer voters in the 18-29 group are now likely to vote or identify as Democrats or liberals.
Citing a Harvard youth poll, Mr. Volpe noted that the number of young men and women among the black community identifying as Democrats has fallen by a “jaw-dropping” 15 percentage points. Among young Hispanics, Democrats have given up 10 points, he said.
Trump’s Promises For 2024
As part of his presidential campaign, Mr. Trump has promised to undo most of the leftist agenda pushed forward by Democrats once he is reelected to office in 2024.Mr. Trump intends to cut federal funding for public schools that teach critical race theory (CRT) and gender ideology. During his presidency, Mr. Trump enforced a ban on CRT training for federal employees, which was rescinded when Mr. Biden became president.
The former president also intends to go after transgender participation in women’s sports. “We will not let men, as an example, participate in women’s sports. Is that OK? No men. No men,” Mr. Trump said in his inaugural campaign speech back in November. “We’ve had tremendous, tremendous problems, and it’s very unfair to women. Just very, very unfair.”
During a speech at the 2023 National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action leadership forum in April, Mr. Trump promised to rescind Mr. Biden’s executive orders that allow the federal government to target the firearms industry.
Once reelected, Mr. Trump will “ban federal agencies from colluding to censor American citizens, ban taxpayer dollars from being used to label speech as ‘mis-‘ or ‘disinformation’, fire every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship, [and] order the DOJ to investigate all parties involved in online censorship regime and prosecute any and all crimes identified,” the announcement said.
