It has been revealed that the war in the Middle East between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas is having a negative impact on US President Joe Biden’s re-election bid. While American voters support the Biden administration’s Israel policy, they are more supportive of former President Donald Trump.
In a virtual bilateral matchup in an online opinion poll released by Harvard University’s Center for American Politics (CAPS) and public opinion pollster Harris Poll on the 21st, President Biden had an approval rating of 41%, 5 percentage points lower than former President Trump’s approval rating of 46%. Compared to the same survey last month, President Biden’s figure decreased by 1 percentage point, and former President Trump’s figure increased by 2 percentage points. Even in a virtual three-way match, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who declared an independent candidacy, President Biden was behind former President Trump (39%) with only 33%.
On the other hand, 58% of respondents supported President Biden’s Israel policy, and 64% said that the United States has a responsibility to support Israel militarily. Public opinion is quite supportive of the Biden administration’s Israel policy, but this support does not extend to President Biden personally.
It is also bad news that as President Biden expresses his firm support for Israel, there is a possibility that Muslim voters who have supported the Democratic Party may defect. The support of 240,000 Muslim voters in this state was crucial for President Biden to beat former President Trump by 150,000 votes in Michigan during the 2020 presidential election. Representative Alabas Farhat (Democrat) of Michigan said, “President Biden alone has alienated all Arab-American and Muslim voters. “They feel completely abandoned (by the Democratic Party),” he said.
Biden’s re-election camp also argues that the prolongation of wars (in the Middle East and Ukraine) should be used as an opportunity to dilute the controversy over aging. Politico, a U.S. political media outlet, said, “The re-election team wants to turn President Biden’s vulnerability (of old age) into a strength, arguing that he has the experience and wisdom to handle the most dangerous international crisis since World War II.” “He analyzed. It is analyzed that President Biden, who puts his economic policy Bidenomics at the core of his re-election campaign, requested a $105 billion (approximately 142 trillion won) support budget for Israel and Ukraine following this same strategy. The New York Times (NYT) said, “If the Israeli conflict continues to dominate the news in the coming weeks and months, the nature of the presidential campaign could change,” and “President Biden is calling himself ‘war time’ during his re-election bid. He can be presented as ‘president’. (However) this will entail political risks.”
Source: Donga
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