Focus group of undecided voters gets brutally honest about Biden and the economy: ‘Gaslighting literally everyone’
In all likelihood, undecided voters will decide the outcome of the 2024 election. And if you’re President Joe Biden, that’s probably not a good thing.
On Wednesday, MSNBC highlighted a recent focus group of undecided voters from Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, three battleground states that pave the path to the White House. Biden won those states in 2020, but Donald Trump won them in 2016.
The voters applauded Biden for his policies on abortion, student loans, climate, and his attitude toward “disenfranchised” people.
But on the issues that voters say matter most — the economy, inflation, immigration, and the border crisis — they all agreed that Trump is the better choice. In fact, all participants agreed that Trump’s economic policies are better for them and their family.
“I think he’s been absolutely disastrous for the economy,” one voter said of Biden.
“I feel like he doesn’t even take accountability for, at all, with what’s going on in the economy, and not even accountability — he’s in denial that it’s happening,” another voter said.
“Biden needs to hear the people because when he’s talking about the economy doing stellar, he’s talking about the stock market. He’s not looking at homelessness or joblessness. He’s not thinking about how much it costs to go to the grocery store,” said another voter, who supported Biden in 2020. “He’s gaslighting literally everyone in the process.”
In 1992, Democratic strategist James Carville offered Americans a novel political theory: “It’s the economy, stupid!” Time and time again, Carville’s famous quip has proved true.
The undecided voters in the focus group believe Trump is a “bully” or “mean” or that he is divisive. But they like his economy policies, and if Americans vote with their pocketbook, the former president is sitting pretty less than seven months before voters head to the ballot box.
Unfortunately for Biden, the focus group is not an anomaly.
For months, polls have shown that voters trust Trump on the issues they care about most, while they trust Biden on issues they don’t really vote on: abortion, climate change, voting rights.
The media are trying to help Biden — publishing countless stories painting the economy as better than they think — but if Americans are in tune with anything, it’s their bank accounts. They know how much groceries, utilities, gas, cars, rent, and housing cost before Biden, so they are painfully aware of how inflation has decreased the power of their dollars. And the focus group proved once again that Biden’s narrative about the economy isn’t resonating with voters.
If the election comes down to undecided voters in a handful of battleground states, remember Carville’s thesis — especially as inflation worsens.
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