A new CNN poll initiates total panic among Democrats as Joe Biden flatlines against a bevy

of Republican candidates. Former Trump aide Peter Navarro is convicted of contempt of Congress

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The Ben Shapiro show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. I talk about them every single show. Why haven't you gotten a VPN yet? Get ExpressVPN right now at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. So there is talk now among Democrats of pulling the rip cord on Joe Biden. It's time to parachute out of Biden land. The reason they're freaking out is because there was a poll last week from the Wall Street Journal that was really bad for Joe Biden. It showed that he had approval ratings in the 30s. It showed that he was running dead even with Donald Trump. Now, there's a second poll out from CNN showing that Joe Biden is indeed an extremely weak candidate. Again, CNN is a poll. You would imagine that would generally be pretty friendly to President Biden. This poll certainly is not. According to CNN, there is no clear leader in a potential rematch between Biden and former

President Trump, who is widely ahead in the GOP primary, nearly half of registered voters,

46 percent, say literally any Republican presidential nominee would be a better choice than Biden in

2024.

Meanwhile, hypothetical matchups also suggest there would be no clear leader should Biden face

one of the other major GOP contenders.

There's only one notable exception against Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina, former UN ambassador.

He would lose 49-43, according to the CNN poll.

All the rest of the Republican candidates are running either dead even with Biden or within one point of Biden either up or down.

Since Biden announced his reelection bid earlier this year, his approval ratings have remained

mired in the low 40, similar to Donald Trump's standing in 2019, well below. or down. Since Biden announced his reelection bid earlier this year, his approval ratings have remained

mired in the low 40, similar to Donald Trump's standing in 2019, well below Ronald Reagan,

Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton at this point ahead of their reelection campaign. The fact is that

virtually every metric for Americans about Joe Biden is bad. His job approval rating is that

39% according to CNN.

58% say his policies have made economic conditions in the United States worse. That is up eight

points since last fall. 70% of people say that things are going badly in the country.

51% still say the government should be doing more to solve the nation's problems, which again,

for those 51% of Americans who

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