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39%
That’s President Biden’s average approval rating right now. It’s not just a bad place for an incumbent heading into a reelection year: It’s the lowest of any president since Truman.
Presidential approval ratings 11 months from a reelection bid:
Trump 45%
Obama 45%
W. Bush 63%
Clinton 51%
H.W. Bush 50%
Reagan 54%
Carter 54%
Ford 46%
Nixon 50%
Johnson 46%
Kennedy 58%
Eisenhower 75%
Truman 23%
SOURCE: Gallup |
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The Trump-supporting super PAC MAGA Inc. is up with this spot in New Hampshire attacking former Trump U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.
It criticizes her position on the gas tax, painting her as flip-flopping on whether to raise it. The ad is the first tangible sign that Trump’s team sees her as a threat in New Hampshire, and it comes after a poll of Granite State voters shows her within 15 points of Trump.
In most years, a 15-point lead would be seen as massive, but this is the closest any of Trump’s rivals have polled in the early states in the last several months. And given that a significant portion of New Hampshire voters tend to make up their minds in the last week of the primary, it’s significant. |
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Republicans
Haley: In an interview with ABC News on Sunday, Haley cautioned against a second Trump term. "I agree with a lot of Trump's policies,” she said. “I think he was the right president at the right time. But looking at the situation now, our country is in disarray. The world is on fire and chaos follows him. We can't have a country in chaos for four more years or we won't survive it.”
Asked if chaos follows him or if he creates it, Haley wasn’t direct. “Rightly or wrongly,” she said, “you call it whatever you want to call it, but when you feel it, it’s chaos… Americans are tired, they want the government to work for them again, and they want to win.”
DeSantis: The Florida governor’s campaign continues to have troubles. The unique funding and legal relationship between his campaign team and his super PAC, Never Back Down, was supposed to make it easier for DeSantis to woo voters who initially saw him as a viable alternative to Trump. But a watchdog group has filed a legal complaint about that structure, and numerous outlets documented tensions between the super PAC and the campaign. The super PAC’s CEO and chairman resigned in recent days, and following a Washington Post piece that ran Saturday, the super PAC’s top strategist also resigned.
In a visit to New Hampshire on Friday, DeSantis told a reporter he believes Trump will claim the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary have both been “stolen” should the MAGA leader lose them. “If Trump loses,” DeSantis said, “he will say it’s stolen no matter what, absolutely.” It’s part of a recent pattern of DeSantis upping his criticism against Trump.
Chris Christie: The former New Jersey governor has been visiting counties in New Hampshire that Biden won – Hillsborough, Rockingham, Merrimack and Cheshire. Speaking to a room of Granite Staters, Christie likened his campaigning style to that of John McCain’s in 2008. “They said his campaign was dead,” Christie said. “He lost Iowa – they said there was no chance he could win. He won New Hampshire and became the nominee. If I win this primary, I’m going to be the nominee. If I’m the nominee, I will beat Joe Biden, and then we’re going to go to a whole new era in our politics in this country.”
Vivek Ramaswamy: The entrepreneur took to the stage on Sunday at a conference for young conservatives, and lashed out at CNN’s Van Jones with an expletive, saying he should, “Shut the **** up.” Jones had criticized some of Ramaswamy’s rhetoric as being “one step away from Nazi propaganda.” Ramaswamy has pushed several conspiracy theories from the presidential debate stage.
Trump: At a rally Saturday in Durham, N.H., the former president upped his increasingly extreme language on immigration, saying that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”
The continued anti-immigrant and xenophobic rhetoric — which echoes the rhetoric of Adolf Hitler — comes as lawmakers on Capitol Hill try to reach a border-security deal. Trump has begun to lay out his own plans for immigrants in the country illegally, if reelected, including moving them to detention camps for eventual deportation.
Trump also cited Vladimir Putin in his speech, called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “very nice” and claimed Hungary’s authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is “highly respected.”
Democrats
Biden: The question of how to deal with Biden’s age is reportedly causing frustration among the president’s team. Axios reports that some current and former aides believe Biden packs more into his schedule than he should, and that first lady Jill Biden and her team are encouraging the president to rest more. But he often says to his aides and friends, “I feel so much younger than my age.”
Marianne Williamson: In a visit to rural New Hampshire this past weekend, Williamson criticized Trump over rhetoric on immigration. “Those words are straight from 'Mein Kampf,'” she said. “I mean, this man is truly speaking the words…And it's the task of our generation to stand up and say, 'No, we're not doing that here in America.' Those words should bring a chill to the heart of every American,” she said.
It’s that kind of rhetoric from Trump that the Biden campaign hopes will unify the Democratic Party around his reelection, despite misgivings from progressives and younger voters.
Third Party
Robert F. Kennedy Jr: Kennedy has been asking voters in states like Nebraska and Missouri to help him get his name on the ballot, which is a struggle for independent candidates.
“I need you to help me,” Kennedy said at a rally in Kansas City. “You know, in this state, Democrats and Republicans both get on the ballot for free. I need to work for it.”
— With research and reporting from Jeongyoon Han, NPR Politics editorial assistant |
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