MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, thought to be a reliable mouthpiece for the Democrats, has called a new NBC poll showing declining confidence in President Joe Biden as “scary news for the Democrats.”
“The overarching message: Americans have lost their confidence in President Biden and their optimism for the country,” Todd said about the latest poll during Sunday’s Meet the Press.
“A majority of Americans now disapprove of President Joe Biden’s job performance, while half give him low marks for competence and uniting the country,” said NBC News.
The poll showed that 71% of registered voters think the country in on the wrong track, including 70% of independents and nearly a majority of Democrats.
Republicans enjoy commanding leads on issues with voters according to the poll on the economy (+18%) , national security (+21%), crime (+22%), inflation (+24%) and border security (+27%).
Todd has been criticized for his refusal to acknowledge the bias that liberals bring to the press, calling the idea of liberal bias in the press something that GOP critics have implanted “in our heads,” according to Fox News.
“The Republicans have subsumed all of this and it’s turned into this. We should have fought back better in the mainstream media,” he opined during a July broadcast of the long-running cable show that he inherited in 2014.
“We shouldn’t [have] accepted the premise that there was liberal bias. We should have defended,” Todd ranted.
Todd has declared that he will no longer humor any opposing viewpoints on leftist pet-causes like climate change.
Despite frequent stories revealing that the Democratic establishment and its media mouthpieces have been dead wrong on major issues since the start of the Trump administration, Todd echoed leftist talking points to suggest that the media wasn’t being hard enough on its right-wing adversaries.
“I hear the attacks on fact checkers where they ‘fact-check Republicans six times more than they fact-check Democrats,’” he said. “Yeah. Perhaps the Republicans are being factually incorrect more often than the Democrats.”
But the new poll from NBC leaves little doubt, even for partisan leftists in the press like Todd, that so far the Biden presidency has been a disappointment, to say the least.
“Democrats face a country whose opinion of President Biden has turned sharply to the negative since April,” said Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, who conducted the survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies, said NBC about the poll.
“The promise of the Biden presidency—knowledge, competence and stability in tough times—have all been called into question,” Horwitt continued.
“What people voted for was stability and calm,” added fellow Democratic pollster Peter Hart. “And what they got was instability and chaos.”
