For President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump,
the pressure is on to address voters key concerns.
They cheated like dogs. They cheated like nobody's ever cheated
before.
Trump has been fixated on his past election loss and
he continues to repeat the false claim at the 2020
presidential election was stolen.
What they did in 2020 is disgraceful.
He's also openly embraced the rioters who stormed the Capitol
on January 6th.
I call them the J6 hostages,
not prisoners. I call them the hostages.
What's happened? And it's a shame.
Even though Trump has repeated these claims for years,
65% of US adults believe correctly that Biden won the
election legitimately,
the same number who believed that just before his inauguration.
Views on the January 6th rioters,
though, are much more complicated.
According to a poll that was released on the 3rd
anniversary of the Capitol riot,
Republicans were much less likely to believe the participants were
mostly violent than they were two years ago.
Democrats and independents have been much more consistent in their
views.
Meanwhile, as the oldest sitting president,
I know I'm 198 years old.
81 year old Joe Biden has struggled to calm concerns
about his age.
He's tried dismissing them. Take a look at what I've
done since I've become president.
Not even thought I could pass any of the things
I got passed.
How'd that happen? You know,
I guess I just forgot what was going on.
He's tried comparing his performance to that of
78 year old Trump. You got to take a look
at the other guy.
He's about as old as I am,
but he can't remember his wife's name.
He's even tried turning it into a joke.
Well, I was graduating from high school 300 years ago.
Still, polling shows that voters are concerned.
81% of US adults think Biden is too old to
serve another term.
A smaller #55% say the same about Trump.
And then there is abortion.
That's an issue Trump has dramatically shifted on over the
years.
Back in the 1990s, Trump said he was very pro-choice.
Then as president, he spoke out in favor of a
national 20 week abortion ban.
With few exceptions, I call upon the Senate to pass
this important law
and send it to my desk for signing.
He has since changed course,
speaking out now in support of states determining their own
laws.
So we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a
legal standpoint,
and whatever they decide must be the law of the
land,
in this case the law of the state.
Only 37% of US adults agree with Trump's latest stance
that abortion policy should be left up to the states.
This issue has been a losing one for Republicans since
the Supreme Court overturned BOE versus Wade.
49% of voting age Americans support federal laws to ensure
abortion access
for Biden. While recent job numbers and slowing inflation point
to a strong economy,
Americans just aren't feeling it.
Still, the president is trying to make the case that
he's better on the economy than Trump.
He's never succeeded in creating jobs
and I've never failed. I've created over
15,000,000 jobs. This is I've been president.
While inflation has slowed, it is still higher than when
Trump was in office.
And Biden has acknowledged that consumers,
they are feeling the squeeze.
We know prices are still too high because of what
I call greed inflation and shrink inflation.
I'm calling on corporations to pass their savings on to
consumers,
for God's sake. We're making real progress,
but polls show that the economy is still a top
issue for Americans,
and Biden is losing this argument to his opponent.
More Americans trust Trump over Biden to handle both the
economy and inflation
on these potential vulnerabilities. For both candidates,
the question remains will their arguments ultimately win voters over?