The Unhappy Voters Who Could Swing the Election

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🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Millions of voters in states across the country cast their ballots in the presidential primary on Super Tuesday, leaving little doubt that the November election will be a rematch between President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump. But in a race that is increasingly inevitable, a New York Times/Siena College poll found a critical group of voters who are making the outcome of that race anything but certain. Nate Cohn, The Times’s chief political analyst, explains who these voters are and why they present a particular threat to Mr. Biden.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisie, and this is the Daily.
0:05.0	Millions of voters in states across the country cast their ballots in the presidential
0:11.0	primary on Super Tuesday,
0:13.0	leaving little doubt that the November election
0:16.0	will be a rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
0:19.0	But in a race that's increasingly inevitable, a New York Times
0:24.0	Cianna College poll shows there's a critical group of voters
0:27.6	that are making the outcome of that race anything but.
0:31.2	Today, my colleague Nate Cohn on who those voters are and why
0:38.0	they represent a particular threat to Joe Biden.
0:47.0	It's Wednesday, March 6th.
0:50.0	Nate! Hello, how are you?
0:52.0	How are you? How are going? It's going well, how are you?
0:55.0	Good. It's a little rainy. My feet are stopping wet.
0:58.0	Oh, I did the subway.
1:00.0	So did I. I'm going to shut the door. Yeah.
1:04.4	So Nate, Super Tuesday has just happened, which means of course more than a dozen
1:10.9	states have voted in their primaries and President
1:14.0	Biden and former President Trump continue to sail to their respective
1:17.2	nominations. I mean you know at this point there is really no suspense at all barring
1:22.2	something extremely unexpected, whether they will be the nominees
1:25.7	in the general election.
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