by Kristine Marsh
The last three months have been nightmarish for Joe Biden’s presidency. In August, his popularity started to plummet, dropping precipitously so that, by late October, some polls had him dipping into the high 30s as Afghanistan, inflation and an inability to accomplish his domestic agenda have altered a once popular president’s fortunes. But in comparison to Donald Trump, ABC, CBS and NBC had almost double the number of mentions of bad polling for the Republican.
MRC analysts looked at the morning and evening broadcast news programs from August 1, 2021 to October 25, 2021 for Biden vs. August 1, 2017 to October 25 2017 for Trump. While ABC, CBS and NBC mentioned Donald Trump’s unpopularity 37 times, they only noted the rapidly dropping numbers for Biden 19 times.
This despite the fact that Biden’s fall is, by far, the bigger news story of the two. In January of 2017, Trump started as an unpopular President, averaging around 44 percent, according to Real Clear Politics. His numbers largely stayed that way for four years. In January of 2021, Biden began as a popular President, beginning with a 55 percent popularity rating. By near the end of October, his average fell to just 42 percent.
In the August to October 2017 period, ABC offered the most mentions of just how unpopular Trump was at 16. CBS came in second with 13 and NBC last with eight. Four years later, all three networks had much less interest in a Democratic unpopular president. CBS managed eight mentions of imploding Biden numbers. NBC came in second with six and ABC was last at five.
Both Presidents Trump and Biden suffered an awful August. In 2017, Trump faced the violence in Charlottesville, VA after a white supremacist rally. Meanwhile, 2021 had Biden overseeing the collapse of Afghanistan with a chaotic withdrawal that included 13 U.S. service members killed. But in that month, the networks highlighted the “record low” numbers for Trump 26 times. For Biden, August saw only four mentions of his falling numbers.
And while Biden wasn’t as unpopular as Trump was in his respective August, the Democrat had suddenly fallen under 50 percent in 16 of 25 polls in August, an alarming trend documented by Real Clear Politics’s collection of polls.
Additionally, the tone of the bad polling coverage for Trump bordered on gleeful hype. On the August 2, 2017 CBS Evening News, Chip Reid trumpeted, “According to a new poll from Quinnipiac University, 62 percent of Americans say the President is not honest. Seventy-one percent say he is not levelheaded.”
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On the September 27, 2017 CBS Evening News, Dean Reynolds used a different Quinnipiac survey to announce: “57 percent of voters disapprove of Mr. Trump’s handling of the job. Fifty-six percent find him unfit to serve, and 51 percent say they are embarrassed to have him as President.” (In the latest Quinnipiac poll, the outfit did not ask if Biden was honest, fit to serve, or what percentage of Americans were embarrassed to have him as president.)
In what could be mistaken for the coming Biden presidency, then-ABC News political analyst Matt Dowd on the August 5, 2017 Good Morning America warned, “[Trump is] at the lowest point of any President has ever been six months going into summer. Augusts usually are never good months for Presidents.”
Kristen Welker, on the August 21, 2017 NBC Nightly News, cited a prime-time address on Afghanistan: “It comes as polls show his approval rating is sagging. With this announcement tonight, Mr. Trump becomes the third President to take on the war in Afghanistan, a conflict he now owns.”
In contrast, the networks offered more matter-of-fact reporting on Biden’s plummet. On the August 23, 2021 CBS This Morning, Ed O’Keefe dryly noted the “President’s overall support is slipping as he’s facing criticism at home and abroad.”
On the October 7, 2021 edition of NBC’s Today, as Biden hit 38 percent in a Quinnipiac poll: Garrett Haake described Biden as simply in need of a “boost”:
“Show me the Republican and I’ll make you up some low polls.”
— every marxist Democrat ever.
biden is in free fall. For him there is no recovery. He is dropping precipitously and will continue. He will be in the teens before one year in office
I think it’s only because Democrats WANT him to have low polls. That concerns me.
For idiot Biden to recover, he has to do the opposite of what the far left has been having him do. So, his polls might go up, but the far left will rip him to pieces.
Not likely to happen IMHO. The left knows this is their last best hope to do what obama started in 2008.
President Trump was a 4 year hiccup for them as they expected hillary to claim the mantle in 2016. President Trump inadvertently exposed what has resided in the DC for decades and in doing so, became their nemesis.
Ergo, eliminate President Trump by any means necessary. All attempts failed during his Presidency their last chance, steal the election…
Oh, absolutely it won’t happen. Democrats are not in the habit of reversing their damaging policies. It is embarrassing to admit error, more so, apparently, than the failures they bring about. And, since they are always able, with the help of a corrupt liberal media, to exploit the misery they create for their own benefit, why would they reverse themselves?
Throughout Trump’s Presidency, the media gave him 94% negative coverage. While ignoring his achievements on the economy, benefitting minorities, trade, NATO, Middle East peace, border security, they pumped up his negative coverage with constant coverage of the false Russian collusion story and false accusations of racism. It’s like doing a product review on a car that has been wrecked; it’s worthless.
Meanwhile, idiot Biden gets only positive coverage until he destroys the Afghanistan withdrawal so badly that it couldn’t be covered up. The showed idiot Biden signing stuff, as if he was actually a president, but didn’t cover what he was signing (sometimes HE didn’t know) and what the impact of those signings would be. Clearly, idiot Biden’s performance is so bad it can’t be covered up by media lies, which the public is becoming more and more aware of.
The link isn’t the current story, but is is in the same vein and emphasizes how the media manipulated the polls with their attitudes; it was funny and honorable to disrespect Trump, or rather the caricature of Trump the media created, but they are practically moved to tears over “Let’s go Brandon” because it is “unpatriotic”.
The corrupt liberal media is responsible, more than anyone else, for the pathetic state of affairs in this nation today.
Most polls taken by the Networks are either Faked or pulled out of Thin Air
New Poll Shows Overwhelming Support For Overturning The Election
https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/new-poll-shows-overwhelming-support-for-overturning-the-election/
Note to Steve Bannon: 35 percent IS NOT “overwhelming support”, you frickin’ moron. It’s only a bit over 1/3.
It follows that nearly 2/3 of registered voters DON’T believe the election should be overturned.
You also change your claim moments later, from “35 percent of registered voters” to “35 percent of the American people”.
I hope they prosecute you for Contempt of Congress and throw your mangy butt in in the slammer for a few months. Maybe you could make productive use of your time there by taking a remedial math class.
You also change your claim moments later, from “35 percent of registered voters” to “35 percent of the American people”.
Complete lie.
I want to thank those who pose here and continue to show how ignorant and irrelevant greggie’s comments are. That allows me to spend hours each day having intelligent conversations with my 3 and 7 year old grand-daughters. They are much more intelligent than greggie.
Another example of overwhelming support of 35% of registered voters to overturn the election. That is not decertification, it is to overturn the entire election.
AG Merrick Garland Sent HELICOPTER and the Feds to Intimidate Parents at Fairfax County School Board Meeting
By Jim Hoft
Overwhelming
Poll: 35 Percent Want 2020 Presidential Election Overturned; Only 39 Percent Definitely Believe Election Was ‘Free and Fair’
Thirty-five percent of registered voters believe the 2020 presidential lection should be overturned according to a Morning Consult-Politico poll released Wednesday. Only 39 percent believe the election was “definitely” “free and fair.”