'You can't keep talking about progress when 3/4 of the country thinks we're on the wrong track,' Stan Greenberg said of Biden
Democratic pollster says President Biden is 'losing ground' every month
Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg said President Biden is "losing ground" every month as the 2024 election gets closer and suggested he restart on his inflation messaging.
Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg told CNN on Monday that President Biden is "losing ground" every month as the 2024 election gets closer, and suggested the president's team stop touting progress.
Greenberg joined CNN's Jim Acosta on Monday to talk about Biden's re-election chances. Acosta asked him about why people aren't feeling inflation cool down.
"What the president is currently doing is his tweets always start with, ‘we’re making progress,' and then he mentions prices," he said, noting the president was also trying to convince Black voters they were doing a good job. "They are losing ground, every month, and angry about it."
He suggested Biden's team take a step back and figure out how to deal with the inflation problem.
Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg joined CNN's Jim Acosta on Monday to discuss President Biden's re-election chances. (Screenshot/CNN)
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Acosta also asked him about The Washington Post's reporting on Biden and his reaction to recent poll numbers.
"After pardoning a pair of turkeys, an annual White House tradition, Biden delivered some stern words for the small group assembled: His poll numbers were unacceptably low, and he wanted to know what his team and his campaign were doing about it," The Washington Post reported.
Acosta asked Greenberg what his team should be doing about the low poll numbers.
"What the president is currently doing is still talking about progress, and you can't keep talking about progress when the 3/4 of country thinks we're on the wrong track," Greenberg responded.
President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council in the Indian Treaty Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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He said Biden needed to "get where people are," and tell voters, "we get it."
"And where they are is on the rising prices. They need to stop with their own voters and say ‘we get it,’ if inflation is the biggest problem, we get it. We are in touch with that,'" he said.
Thomas Edsall, a New York Times opinion columnist, spoke to several pollsters, analysts and more about a poll conducted by Democracy Corps, a Democratic advisory group founded by James Carville and Greenberg. The group conducted a survey of 2,500 voters between Nov. 5 and Nov. 11.
President Joe Biden during a news conference with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine's president, not pictured, in the Indian Treaty Room on the White House complex, in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Greenberg, according to Edsall, summarized the results in an email and wrote, "this is grim."
He argued in an op-ed for the Financial Times that there were three "exceptional factors" shaping the 2024 election.
"First, the inflation produced by the economy restarting after the pandemic, supply chain problems, rising energy prices following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the high cost of food. Second, heightened anger at profiteering by big companies and increasingly visible monopolies. And third, surging levels of migration caused by wars, political unrest and extreme weather," Greenberg wrote.
Hanna Panreck is an associate editor at Fox News.
