Biden Trailing Trump by 20 Points on Economy as Approval Rating Plunges, NBC Poll Shows
Joe Biden is in BIG trouble heading into the 2024 election, trailing former President Donald Trump across the board by large margins, according to a new NBC poll.
The NBC poll released Sunday shows Biden’s approval rating sank to 37%, the lowest of any president in their re-election year since former President George Bush Sr. (41%).
“President Biden has declined on every measure since 2020, is struggling with key elements of his base, and now trails former President Donald Trump by wide margins on the issues voters say are most important to them,” Meet the Press host Kristin Welker said Sunday.
The poll also shows Trump beating Biden by five points, 47% to 42%, among registered voters in a head-to-head 2024 general election race.
“This is the biggest lead NBC has ever had in 16 polls for Donald Trump over Joe Biden,” political correspondent Steve Kornacki noted.
On the question of which candidate would better handle the economy, the NBC poll shows Trump leads Biden 55% to 33% — a whopping 22-point gap.
And on the question of competency and effectiveness, the poll shows Trump leading Biden by 16%.
But that’s not all.
“Trump’s issue-specific polling leads include immigration control and securing the border (where he beats Biden by 35%), improving America’s standing in the world (he tops) and having the necessary mental and physical health to be president ( 23% over Biden),” Forbes reported.
STUNNING NBC POLL:
— Jack Poso ?? (@JackPosobiec) February 4, 2024
I have to go through these crosstabs
Trump +5, Largest Lead EVER Over Biden
Biden approval (37%) lowest of any president in their re-election year since Bush Sr (41%)
73%(!) say US is on WRONG TRACK
Trump +17 with whites
Trump WINNING Hispanics, +1
Trump…
The fact that NBC isn’t releasing the crosstabs for age is really telling. Biden must be crashing in every demo
— Jack Poso ?? (@JackPosobiec) February 4, 2024
The only positive news for Biden is that he leads Trump by 17 points on “protecting immigrant rights” and his handling of abortion by 12 points.
This certainly helps explain why Democrats in numerous states are attempting to remove Trump from the ballot and bring millions of illegal immigrants — prospective Democrat voters — into America as the 2024 election nears.
Chinese Military Studying ‘Cognitive Attacks’ Against U.S. Population
The Chinese Communist Party’s military is studying “cognitive domain operations” to sow a mentality of defeat among the American people.
Researchers for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are engaging in “cyber-enabled influence operations” against the United States with the goal of influencing the U.S. population to psychologically accept surrender, according to Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation.
“There is a group of PLA researchers, often focused on [influence operations], who argue that the cognitive domain is the new focus of warfare,” Beauchamp-Mustafaga said in prepared testimony to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on Thursday.
These cognitive domain operations (CDO) are meant to create “a psychological or cognitive decision to surrender,” he added.
Specifically, the tactics include the use of technologically enhanced propaganda such as AI-generated deepfakes, “synthetic information”, “information cocoons” and “precision cognitive attacks” to polarize the American people.
Beauchamp-Mustafaga said that by using these measures, the CCP hopes “to win a conflict with as little kinetic destruction as possible and force the adversary to accept defeat short of total destruction.”
The Pentagon in 2022 warned the CCP is working on “a more aggressive form of psychological warfare” intended to “affect a target’s cognition, decision making, and behavior.”
“The goal of CDO is to achieve what the PLA refers to as ‘mind dominance,’ defined as the use of propaganda as a weapon to influence public opinion to effect change in a nation’s social system, likely to create an environment favorable to China and reduce civilian and military resistance to PLA actions,” the report said.
Recent reports by Microsoft and Meta also found the CCP has been leveraging a combination of social media, paid influencers, proxy websites, and PR firms to manipulate public opinion about China.
While China is deploying 5th generation warfare against its adversaries, the Biden regime is busy keeping the southern border open and launching airstrikes in multiple Middle Eastern countries on behalf of Israel.
Canada Halts Euthanasia For the Mentally Ill, Citing Lack of Doctors Willing to Participate
Canada has frozen a plan to expand its assisted suicide program to include people suffering from mental illnesses, Health Minister Mark Holland and Justice Minister Arif Virani has announced.
Among the reasons for the postponement, they cited a lack of medical professionals, especially psychiatrists, willing to evaluate patients before the lethal injection.
Canada legalized euthanasia after the Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that requiring people to cope with intolerable suffering was tantamount to violating their basic rights. In 2021, the Superior Court of Quebec demanded that the government expand the criteria to those suffering from “grievous and irremediable” conditions, such as depression and other mental health issues.
The law’s separate provisions for people with mental illnesses were originally postponed for two years.
Speaking to reporters on Monday following a session of a special parliamentary committee looking into the issue, Holland explained: “it’s clear from the conversations we’ve had that the system is not ready, and we need more time.”
On Thursday, Canada’s Health Ministry released a statement, clarifying that the expansion originally slated for March 17 of this year had been postponed until 2027. It is hoped that by then, regional healthcare providers will be better prepared to administer euthanasia to the mentally ill, with clear guidelines developed in the meantime, the document added.
Canada is already among the countries with most liberal laws regarding euthanasia and assisted suicide, with the procedure available to terminally and chronically ill people.
However, plans to extend the practice to the mentally ill have proven controversial, with members of the opposition Conservative Party accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government of promoting a “culture of death.”
Some critics on the left have also argued that the authorities should instead focus on improving psychiatric care, which is said to be chronically underfunded.
A number of psychiatrists, for their part, have voiced concern that patients could bail out of treatment schemes that do not provide immediate relief, and opt for the easy way out instead.
According to a report released by the Canadian Health Ministry last October, there was a 31.2% increase in the number of cases involving what is termed in the country as medical assistance in dying (MAID) in 2022 compared to 2021.
In 2022, a total of 13,241 people chose to end their lives this way, with 463 of those being “individuals whose natural deaths were not reasonably foreseeable.”
Obama Adviser Axelrod: Migrant Busing ‘Very Effective’ at Getting Biden & Dems to Shift on Border Policies
Former Obama adviser David Axelrod claimed on CNN that the busing of migrants into sanctuary cities has “been very effective” at forcing Joe Biden and Democrats to shift positions on the issue of illegal immigration.
“[T]he change is that more and more Democrats are taking — voters — are taking a hard line. It looks as though the White House, the President is seeing that and kind of following their lead,” began Inside Politics host Dana Bash on Saturday.
Axelrod, now CNN Senior Political Commentator, commended Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R-Texas) strategy to bus migrants into “sanctuary cities” because it forced Democrats to address the issue they would have otherwise ignored.
Axelrod responded, “Yes. Two points on this: Whatever you think about what Gov. Abbott (R) has done, it was diabolically clever, because by shipping these migrants to cities that call themselves…sanctuary cities, he has created issue[s].”
“I come from Chicago,” he continued. “Chicago has been torn apart by this issue. New York has been torn apart by this issue. And suddenly, Democrats are engaged in this issue in a different way than they had been. So, that has been very effective.”
Axelrod went on with the talking point that it’s former President Donald Trump and Republicans who are holding up meaningful negotiations on border security.
“I think that the President has responded by engaging in these very difficult negotiations, agreeing to some of the most dramatic measures to deal with the border that we’ve seen in a very long time,” he said. “And now, what we see is Donald Trump telling his people, don’t agree to that. I don’t want Biden’s name on the bottom of that bill. That will help him.”
“And so, that gives the White House an offensive position, which is, we’re here to try and solve a problem. He wants to exploit it. He wants to weaponize the problem. We don’t have ten months to wait to deal with this problem. I think it’s an effective counterpoint,” he added.
What Axelrod failed to mention is that the Biden administration’s policy over the last three years has been to systematically open the border which allowed 10 million illegal migrants into the U.S.
Washington State Diverted $340M in Federal COVID Funds to Migrants via $1,000 Checks
The state of Washington doled out $1,000 checks to illegal migrants using funds earmarked for COVID response that totaled $340 million.
A report by the Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC) found that part of the $4.4 billion Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF), which was created by the American Rescue Plan Act and intended to help state and local governments with their COVID response and recovery, was sent to illegal immigrants instead.
“The $340 million project is categorized as a ‘cash transfer’ expenditure under the SLFRF, approved for the State of Washington. This means the Biden Administration directly subsidized ‘undocumented’ immigration under the guise of COVID-19 pandemic relief,” the EPIC report said.
From Fox News:
The report from the group, which calls for a smaller federal government, highlighted how $340 million in funding went to a program that sent $1,000 checks to illegal immigrants in the state. The funds, approved by the Washington state legislature in April 2021, provided “another round of funding for undocumented Washingtonians,” according to an impact report on the program said.
The Washington COVID-19 Immigrant Relief Fund was first set up in 2020 to grant checks to those ineligible for government assistance programs due to their immigration status. Treasury documents confirm that the state has since provided an extra $340 million in federal relief funds for the one-time cash grants, with 10% of the funding went to community-based organizations to administer the program.
The last of the fund’s payments went out in 2023.
State official defended the move, claiming the fund was an opportunity “to help people who may have been left out of other federal and state resources to address the economic impact of the pandemic.”
The report also highlighted several other projects where federal funds were used to support illegal aliens, including programs in Arizona for art, music and dance classes for migrants and expansion of shelters in Massachusetts.
Read the impact report:
Possible NATO Corps Deployment to Ukraine May Become ‘Suicide Mission for Those Troops’
No 10’s ostensible idea of sending NATO troops to Ukraine has nothing to do with reality, experts told Sputnik.
The UK has urged its NATO allies to consider sending the alliance’s expeditionary force to Ukraine, an informed source told Sputnik. According to the source, the alleged move came “in connection with the unfavorable developments in the Ukrainian theater of military operations for Kiev”.
The insider added that Britain also called on NATO to consider imposing a no-fly zone over the territory controlled by the Zelensky regime and to increase military aid to Ukraine.
”The UK’s reported plans about deploying NATO’s expeditionary corps to Ukraine is “a fantastical delusion on the part of the Brits and has no foundation in reality,” retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official Larry Johnson told Sputnik.
“But just because the Brits are insane does not mean Russia can ignore them. It is a serious proposal,” he added.
Johnson was partly echoed by Matthew Gordon-Banks, an international relations consultant, former member of Parliament and retired senior research fellow at the UK Defence Academy, who said he didn’t think the rumors of a NATO force in Ukraine should be taken seriously.
“The suggestions I have heard are quite unrealistic at present,” Gordon-Banks stated.
Asked to comment on the “unfavorable development of events” for Kiev on the battlefield, he emphasized that “things are collapsing in Kiev quite quickly”.
“[Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky has not been able to fire his top general, and I think he is now very much a ‘lame duck’ president,” Gordon-Banks argued, referring to the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, Valery Zaluzhny.
The same tone was struck by Earl Rasmussen, a retired US Army lieutenant colonel turned geopolitical and military affairs consultant, who warned that if the information about London’s plans is true, and “if this is somebody’s dream, it could quickly become a nightmare for British and NATO forces.
“But it is not a realistic solution or proposal. Russia has complete air dominance, escalatory dominance, logistical dominance, ammunition dominance. This would be catastrophic for any UK forces and definitely would show a symbol of direct NATO involvement, which could really be dangerous, as far as escalation goes,” Rasmussen emphasized, noting that “the British forces would probably be wiped out, fairly rapidly.”
The US Army veteran suggested that someone in the UK military might be having “some type of delusional experience” for even suggesting such a scenario. “It’s a suicide mission for those troops. And it definitely would pull NATO into a much more dangerous situation and direct confrontation [with Russia],” Rasmussen concluded.