Who’s Going to Run Against Joe?

It’s still too early to place too much faith in what the polls say may happen nineteen months from now, but the latest surveys show that Joe seems to finally be heading in the right direction and Trump is in the reverse. Back in December, Real Clear Politics (RCP) had Joe at 41% approve and 54% disapprove. As of today, Joe is at 44% approve and 53% disapprove. Not that much of a change, but at least the numbers are better, not worse.

Meanwhile, the latest on Trump-o shows him at 39% positive and 56% negative, which isn’t something to be taken lightly, because most of these polls were taken before the New York DA slammed Trump-o with 34 indictments, none of which are as chicken-shit as Trump-o would you himself and everyone else to believe.

Meanwhile, according to FiveThirtyEight, the bad-good gap for Joe is 10 points, for Trump-o the gap is the same for the gap with RCP, namely 17 points.

What all these polls show is that right now, respondents to political pollsters don’t particularly like either of the major candidates, which doesn’t come as a great surprise given, if nothing else, the fact that both Joe and Trump-o are basically seen as a pair of old farts.

Trump was exciting when he first came out back in 2015, but his excitement was for all the wrong reasons and now everyone, or almost everyone is sick of his act. Yesterday one if the media stations interviewed a Trump-o supporter in Florida who said that she would be so disappointed if Trump lost in 2024 that she might…