President Joe Biden’s effort to promote “Bidenomics” as an inflation cure appears to be backfiring big time, helping former President Donald Trump expand his lead to a near majority of likely voters.
In the latest monthly McLaughlin & Associates national survey, 84% of likely voters said inflation and higher costs have affected their lives. Of those, 46% said they are “struggling” to make ends meet.
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The survey, shared with Secrets, also said 50% of voters feel that Bidenomics has been “bad or very bad for the economy, inflation and the cost of living.”
The results of the survey, conducted by Trump’s pollster, suggest Biden is taking a hit from the economy, which he has tried to tout and today will talk up in advertisements during an NFL game.
In a head-to-head contest, Trump is at his highest level of support in McLaughlin’s survey at 49%. Biden is at 43%.
In the past month, nearly all national surveys have shown Trump leading. Just yesterday, Emerson College Polling said Trump is leading 47%-43%.
McLaughlin has been tracking the impact of Bidenomics and the court cases against Trump.
In the new survey, for example, more voters believe that the legal troubles facing Trump are politically driven by the White House. Some 67% said politics is at play in the four federal indictments against Trump.
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And the survey indicated that 61% believe Biden has played a role in those cases. In another question, 61% said they’d like the Justice Department to back off and “let the voters decide who the next president should be.”
Pollster John McLaughlin told Secrets, “President Trump’s strategy to run an issue-centered campaign challenging Joe Biden’s failed policies has worked perfectly. Joe Biden’s corrupt campaign of indictments against President Trump has backfired. With 54 days to the Iowa caucuses and 11 months to Election Day, Joe Biden is merely doubling down on failure.”
