President Joe Biden overstated his performance in the polls Tuesday as former President Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming the 2024 Republican nominee.
When asked by reporters traveling with him from the presidential retreat Camp David in Maryland to the White House what his message is to Democrats concerned about his polling, Biden provided a pithy response.
“The last five polls, I’m winning,” he said the morning of Super Tuesday. “Five in a row, five.”
It is unclear to which polls Biden is referring. According to the poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight, Biden is ahead of Trump in two of its last five listed surveys, with the former president leading in another two and the pair tied in another one.
According to RealClearPolitics, Biden is ahead in two of its last five listed head-to-head polls with Trump, while the former president is leading in the other three. When RealClearPolitics takes into account independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Biden is ahead in only one of its last five listed polls, while Trump is leading in the other four. When the same aggregator also considers independent candidate Cornel West and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Biden is ahead in only one of its last five listed polls, with Trump leading in another three and the pair tied in another.
The White House declined to respond to the Washington Examiner‘s request for comment, pointing the outlet to Biden’s campaign instead.
In the past White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has defended Biden’s poor polling, describing him as “one of the most productive, if not the most productive and effective presidents in modern time.”
“That would assume that the president understands what’s going on around the kitchen table when Americans are sitting around the kitchen table trying to figure out how are they going to deal with the economy, how are we going to deal with the healthcare,” Jean-Pierre said.
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“So, in our opinion, in my opinion, he is very much in touch with what Americans are feeling out there as it relates to lowering costs, as it relates to making sure that we beat Big Pharma,” she added. “This is a president who understands what the American people are feeling.”
Although Trump will not win enough delegates on Super Tuesday to be named this cycle’s presumptive Republican nominee, he is poised to win enough of the 15 contests in which GOP voters are casting ballots to close in on the 1,215-delegate prize.
