President Biden helped by trump dynamics
" . . . THE ALMIGHTY VS. THE ALTERNATIVE, CONTD The burst of reporting reconsidering the conventional wisdom that Democrats will be crushed in the 2022 midterms continues this week. Most of the pieces emphasize that the return of Trump through the Jan. 6 committee, the fringe candidates hes backing and the multiple investigations he faces could help Democrats bury their differences with anti-Trump Republicans and independents and unite into a majority coalition similar to the one that fueled Dem victories in the Trump-centered elections of 2018 and 2020.
Trump helps Biden because the former is even more unpopular than the latter. As Cook Political Reports Amy Walter recently noted: While neither Biden nor Trump are popular, Trump is the more polarizing. New polling from NBC News finds Trump's net favorable ratings (-18) to be twice as bad as Biden's (-8). That same dynamic is showing up in swing states like Arizona, where a recent FOX News poll finds Trump's net favorable at -20 to Biden's -10, and Wisconsin, where the FOX poll showed Biden's net favorable ratings at (-6) compared with Trump's (-10). . .
www.politico. com/playbook, 8/29/2022