According to a POLITICO article published Tuesday morning, many Democrats have recently expressed growing concerns that President Joe Biden will lose to former President Donald Trump in November.
In the article, authors Christopher Cadelago, Sally Goldenberg, and Elena Schneider wrote that a “pervasive sense of fear has settled in at the highest levels of the Democratic Party over President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects.”
“[N]early five months from the election, anxiety has morphed into palpable trepidation, according to more than a dozen party leaders and operatives,” the authors added.
They explained that “the gap between what Democrats will say on TV or in print, and what they’ll text their friends, has only grown as worries have surged about Biden’s prospects.”
An anonymous Democratic operative described a “freakout” among the Biden camp. This “freakout,” he said, is largely due to the fact that Biden is consistently trailing Trump in the polls.
The operative told POLITICO that his fellow Democrats are especially afraid of the prospect of Biden losing to Trump – more so than if he would lose to a generic Republican. “This isn’t, ‘Oh my God, Mitt Romney might become president,’” he told the publication. “It’s ‘Oh my God, the democracy might end.’”
In addition, the POLITICO article described a list compiled by a Democratic advisor “of nearly two dozen reasons why Biden could lose.” The advisor shared the list with major donors to the party.
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The list included reasons “ranging from immigration and high inflation to [Biden’s] age, the unpopularity of Vice President Kamala Harris and the presence of third-party candidates like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”
The advisor who made the list added: “The list of why we ‘could’ win is so small I don’t even need to keep the list on my phone.”
POLITICO also quoted veteran Democratic strategist Pete Giangreco, who acknowledged that Biden’s record as president is unpopular with American voters compared to Trump’s.
“If the frame of this race is, ‘What was better, the 3.5 years under Biden or four years under Trump,’ we lose that every day of the week and twice on Sunday,” Giangreco said.
Most recent polling has indicated that if the presidential election were held today, Trump would most likely win.
A set of New York Times / Siena polls released earlier this month found that the former president was leading Biden by comfortable margins in many key battleground states.
Most notably, the poll determined that Trump had a staggering 12-point lead among registered voters in Nevada – a state Biden carried four years ago.
CatholicVote previously reported:
Analysts attribute the drastic shift to the fact that Hispanic voters have been overwhelmingly trending toward Trump over the past few years. Roughly 20% of Nevada’s voters are Hispanic.
When only likely voters were surveyed, Trump’s lead in Nevada increased to 13 points.
The Times polls also show Trump with a healthy lead over the incumbent in a handful of other hotly-contested swing states. Trump is leading by 10 points in Georgia and is up seven points over Biden among registered voters in Arizona and Michigan. All of these states voted for Biden in 2020.
As CatholicVote noted, the same polling found that “nearly one in five registered voters from six swing states, including many Catholics, did not vote in the 2020 presidential election.”
LifeNews Note: Joshua Mercer writes for CatholicVote, where this column originally appeared.
