Ahead of the 2024 US presidential election, the third Republican debate concluded in Florida with five candidates facing off against each other even as former President Donald Trump held his private rally across the road at the same time skipping the GOP debate. It’s the third presidential debate – and the third Trump has boycotted. Trump maintains a dominant lead among the 2024 Republican candidates as the field narrows. Five party candidates have met all party qualifying criteria. Prominent among them are Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.
Trump, despite his woe of legal baggage on tax fraud in New York and election subversion in Georgia and conspiracy to overturn 2020 verdict in Washington, is the front runner for GOP in the 2024 presidential race and he leads Biden in five critical states. A New York Times Siena poll finds voters in battleground states said they trusted Trump more than incumbent President Joe Biden on the economy, foreign policy and immigration. Biden’s multi-racial base of voters constituting African-Americans, Hispanics, Asian voters seems to be fracturing, particularly among the young Latino voters.
But new polls are raising renewed concerns about Biden’s re-election prospects in 2024 as a fresh CNN poll suggested Trump narrowly beat President Joe Biden 49 per cent to 45 per cent in a hypothetical rematch. The New York Times and CBS News polls out this weekend also threw up some worries for the Democrats. Voters doubt Biden’s ability to lead the nation. But the Biden team is ignoring all the warning signals and not doing the necessary course corrections. Democrats are concerned that Trump seems to have despite all of the indictments, lies and the “incredible wrong doing.”
Some of the polls conducted coinciding with the off-year 2023 elections, a tight race between Democrats and Republicans, has freaked out the Democrats. It shows Trump winning five of the six swing states in the country. That’s Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania, considered a stronghold of the Democrats. Biden won all these states, albeit narrowly, in the 2020 elections. But any shake-up in these swing states could well bring back Trump into the White House. Even though it’s too early to predict, the signs are not so good for the Democrats.
But the Democrats backed Biden, putting on a brave face and contesting poll predictions saying they often painted a dire picture for incumbent presidents a year before the election, and most voters are not tuned into the political agenda right now. President Biden’s re-election campaign remains full-speed ahead. Biden turns 81-years-old on November 20. His age is a major concern for voters as they doubt his cognitive functions to make the right decisions for the American people in the White House. It’s the same for the brash Trump, who is 77-years-old.
