Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida took to the stage at Turning Point’s America Fest 2023 on Sunday and challenged the status quo, starkly comparing the current and previous administrations.
“With all these challenges we are facing, America is starting to feel like how John Fetterman dresses,” said Gaetz. “We went from an economy that was roaring under President Trump to a nation that is snoring under President Biden.”
“He is a person in decline, and I don’t think America should join him in that decline,” Gaetz said of Biden.
“Under President Trump, gas was cheap, wages were rising, America was energy-dominant, and we deterred war. All that we had going for us, was reversed by a man who soiled his pants on the way to meet the Pope. It is the duty of your leaders to protect you, your families, your lives, your bank accounts, and your interests. Joe Biden is too old and corrupt to be president,” said Gaetz on X.
Trump Surges In National Polling
Former President Donald Trump is surging in the polls, arguably because of an indictment bounce, while President Joe Biden’s popularity balloon just deflated even more.
On one hand, the news for Biden, which was already bad, got even worse.
A new poll by Monmouth University pegged his approval rating at just 34%, an all-time low in that survey since Biden became president, Newsmax reported on Monday.
Compared to that, 61% disapprove, giving him an underwater score of 27 points.
According to Newsmax, Biden is dropping among the groups he needs most to win next year: Democrats and independents.
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Biden recorded 74% approval among Democrats, which was down from 88% in Monmouth’s July poll. As for independents, his approval rating registered just 24%, down from 38% five months ago.
The pollster noted that majorities of voters — between 52% and 69%, depending on the issue, disapprove of how Biden has handled immigration, inflation, climate change, unemployment and transportation and energy infrastructure.
As for the Biden administration’s rhetoric to counter the plunge, poll Director Patrick Murray told Newsmax, “There is political danger in pushing a message that basically tells people their take on their own situation is wrong.”
Yet Biden may take a hit for his rival’s surge.
Newsmax also reported that Trump’s poll numbers have skyrocketed “since Democrat attorneys general began indicting him.”
Trump has been indicted four times by leftist prosecutors in New York, Washington, and Atlanta.
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In March, Trump clocked in with 44% support and led Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by 15 points.
Not long afterward, the indictments started.
On Monday, Trump hit a new high in RealClearPolitics’ average of national polls.
He now boasts 63% support from GOP voters, and his lead over DeSantis is now 51 points.
On Truth Social on Monday, Trump cited an individual poll by Harvard University that notched him at 67% support, a whopping 56 points ahead of Florida’s governor.
In the meantime, Trump has not been below 50% in the primary polling in more than eight months, and his latest lead over Biden in a head-to-head matchup is a solid four points.
“What has happened can only be called an enormous backfire for those Democrats and Never Trumpers who thought indicting Trump would bring him down,” Washington Examiner columnist Byron York wrote on Monday, as Newsmax noted.
York added, “Now, some Democrats and Never Trumpers believe that convicting Trump, at least once, will bring him down. Maybe they’re right. But maybe they’re not.”
The reason is that there are other factors influencing GOP voters, York noted.
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“For one, he is running as an incumbent president, which, of course, he is not, but nevertheless, a lot of Republicans appear to accept him as the incumbent in the race. He also has been president before, and many Republicans have a positive impression of his time in the White House. And Trump remains a unique performer on the campaign trail, a bigger personality than anyone pursuing him,” York wrote.
“Still, it appears to have been the indictments that were the booster rockets for Trump’s present standing in the Republican race.”
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