Biden isn’t worried about his bad polling numbers

President Joe Biden isn’t buying into a recent poll that showed him losing in a hypothetical matchup against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in several key battleground states. 

The poll from The New York Times and Siena Poll showed that Biden was on track to be defeated by Trump by large margins in five battleground states, which set off alarm bells with democratic voters.  

However, Biden wasn’t too worried about the results from the New York Times poll, or any other bad poll, and he made that known when hw was questioned by his long-time Fox News journalistic antagonist Peter Doocy on November 9th. 

Doocy asked Biden what he thought about the poll showing that Trump was leading him in several major swing states and Biden didn’t skip a beat when he responded that other polls showed him ahead. 

“Ten polls. Eight of them, I’m beating him in those places,”  Biden explained, “You guys only do two. CNN and New York Times. Check it out. Check it out. We’ll get you a copy of all those other polls,” a White House press release noted. 

Biden didn’t elaborate on which polls he was referring to but Doocy continued to press the president on data from The New York Times, asking Biden: “You don’t believe you’re trailing in battleground states?”

Biden simply responded: “No, I don’t.” This was a belief Biden continued to espouse later that day when he attended a fundraiser in Chicago where he said that the press was based on information from two polls.

The president claimed that there were ten other polls that had shown him leading Trump and said that copies of those polls had been placed on the seats of everyone at the fundraiser, according to Politico.

Biden’s remarks come after days of speculation that he might not be the right candidate to lead the Democrats into a crucial election next November. Donald Trump is currently the most likely Republican nominee. 

However, Biden’s dismissal of the polling data from The New York Times and Siena looked sound based on the result from several elections that took place on November 7th.  Republicans lost a slew of elections in states all across the union. 

Notably, Democrats took control of the Virginia House of Delegates and held onto the governorship in Kentucky, both deeply red states, despite the lackluster polling numbers Biden received in both states, Politico reported. 

In addition to the concerning polling for the New York Times and Siena, Biden also saw a relatively bad outcome: a recent poll from CNN on November 7th that showed Trump was widening his lead over Biden.

In a hypothetical matchup between Biden and Trump, Trump was polling with 49% of the vote while Biden only netted 45% of the vote. In a head-to-head matchup, roughly 51% of registered voters said they wouldn’t vote for Biden. 

“Biden’s support in the poll is significantly weaker now among several groups that he previously won by wide margins and were critical to his election in 2020,” wrote CNN’s Jennifer Agiesta about the data. 

Not unlike Biden, the president’s staff hasn't put too much stock into either poll that showed Biden trailing Trump. Deputy Press Secretary Olivia Dalton told reporters on Air Force One that “polls don’t matter, elections matter.”

Dalton continued by saying that Biden had seen three “resounding outcomes” in 2020, 2021, and 2022—adding: “Voters have repeatedly embraced the president’s policies, which put middle-class Americans first.”