Rachel Maddow points to poll numbers being ignored amid Biden 2024 freakout
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow highlighted some significant poll results that spell big warning signs for Republicans on her Monday night show.
This comes despite a recent poll from The New York Times and Siena College that appeared to show former President Donald Trump surging over President Joe Biden in a handful of key battleground states. While Trump may have good numbers now, progressive policies are far more successful.
"You might have seen, the big political news in the last 48 hours, The New York Times polling that came out this weekend about the presidential race and the headline was that President Biden's reelection effort looks like it's in trouble," said Maddow, who just returned after having COVID. "Trump is ahead of Biden in a hypothetical matchup in five of six so-called battleground states."
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"Interestingly, though, even in that poll, those results flip when people are asked about a potential conviction for Trump in any of the felonies he's charged with," Maddow continued. "In the same poll, all six of those six swing states would go for Biden if Trump is convicted on any count in any of his trials. So, we will see."
"But you see how central this is to Trump's effort to try to get back into the White House," said Maddow. "It's a chicken-and-egg thing in terms of why he wants to get there and what convictions have to be seen as by his followers. But you see why his effort is to try to not necessarily beat all of these charges and all of these civil suits. It's to say that the legal system doesn't matter, and it isn't in power, and the legal system doesn't need to be obeyed."
She went on to cite recent poll numbers from Gov. Andy Beshear's campaign that revealed only 12 percent of Kentucky voters support the total abortion ban in the state, which his far-right opponent has defended.
"Here's one last point, though, one last poll number that I think isn't getting the attention that it should, particularly from the pundit class," said Maddow. "It's this number: 71 percent. Seventy-one percent support. Americans have a favorable view of labor unions by a huge margin right now. Seventy-one percent support, that's higher than at any time in my lifetime, higher than any time since the 1960s."
Furthermore, she noted, polling also suggests that just 12 percent of Kentuckians — who are about to head to polls to decide on a crucial gubernatorial race — support a total abortion ban.
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