President Joe Biden is getting more ânot great news.â
The president is slipping in the Polls more and more following his dismal performance during the presidential debate Thursday, per Mediaite.
â got a string of Polls in late this afternoon, theyâre mostly poor for Joe Biden, and theyâre beginning to have a bigger impact on the model,â according to Nate Silver in Mondayâs forecast. âTrump now leads by 2.7 points in our national average. And Bidenâs win probability has dropped to 28 percent from 35 percent on debate night.â
And the future does not look any brighter.
âOur guess is that more likely than not, thereâs some further decline ahead: the model is trying to figure out whether this is random noise, but instead itâs almost certainly caused by a challenging first debate for Biden,â he said. âItâs not great news for the president.â
Biden had been 1% lower than former President Donald Trump until the debate when Biden fell from 41.3% to 40.6%, and fell further to 40.3% Friday.
Biden wasnât the only candidate to slip.
Trump fell from 42.3% to 42.1%. He was at 41.8% on June 28.
He recovered, going back up to 42.7% on June 30 and then to 43% on July 1, which was a higher poll average than prior to the debate.
The last time Biden was in the lead in Silverâs forecast was in April.
The presidentâs performance at the debate has not helped his cause as now Democratic supporters and media outlets are calling for him to step aside.
Before the debate even occurred, Silver proposed Biden should remove himself when his approval rating plummeted to an all-time low.
âBiden just hit a new all-time low in approval (37.4%) at 538 yesterday. Dropping out would be a big risk. But thereâs some threshold below which continuing to run is a bigger risk,â Silver said last month. âAre we there yet? I donât know. But itâs more than fair to ask.â
