Biden assured the lawmakers that his polling numbers had not dipped after his rocky debate performance on June 27, an outing that has prompted more than 20 congressional Democrats to urge him to end his bid for reelection.
“The polling data we’re seeing nationally and on the swing states has been essentially where it was before,” Biden said.
“You noticed the last three polls, nationally, they had me up four points. And I mean, I don’t have much faith in the polls at all, either way, because they’re so hard to read anymore.”
“He is not getting the honest truth,” said one House Democrat.
The calls for broader advice come as Democratic lawmakers are raising new doubts about what Biden has been told about his support, after a Zoom call Saturday when Biden argued without evidence that he was leading in national polls outside the typical margin of error. An eight-minute portion of a roughly 45-minute video of the call with the New Democrat Coalition was given to The Washington Post by a Democrat.
“The polling data we’re seeing nationally and on the swing states has been essentially where it was before,” Biden said. “You noticed the last three polls, nationally, they had me up four points. And I mean, I don’t have much faith in the polls at all, either way, because they’re so hard to read anymore.”
The list of head-to-head national polls maintained by the 538 website shows no polls since June with Biden up by four percentage points. A Washington Post average of public polls since the debate shows Biden trailing Donald Trump nationally by more than two points, a loss of almost two points from his pre-debate standing in the same polls.
The Biden campaign, in a response to a question, pointed to other national polls that showed Biden leading by as much as two points.
.Here are the top political news stories for today.
Be the first to reply to this general discussion.
Join in on more popular conversations.
