Randain Wright, a truck driver, says he talks frequently with friends about Mr. Trump: 92 percent of Democrats said they would stick with Mr. Biden seemed to mostly melt away when presented with a choice between him and Mr. Biden’s favorite aphorisms: “Don’t compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.” The poll showed that Democratic misgivings about Mr. Biden is that the survey showed him with a narrow edge in a hypothetical rematch in 2024 with former President Donald J. Now, she said, she is hoping Republicans take over Congress in November to course-correct. As a Democrat, I figured he would really be on our side and put us back on the right track. “He hasn’t done what I think he’s capable of doing as president to help the American people. “I feel like he hasn’t really spoken much about it,” Ms. Biden was necessarily to blame for the spiking prices of gas and groceries but felt he should be doing more to help. “We used to spend $200 a week just going out to have fun, or going and buying extra groceries if we needed it, and now we can’t even do that,” said Kelly King, a former factory worker in Greensburg, Ind., who is currently sidelined because of a back injury. Biden declared that he had overseen “the fastest and strongest jobs recovery in American history.” But the Times/Siena poll showed a vast disconnect between those boasts, and the strength of some economic indicators, and the financial reality that most Americans feel they are confronting. The White House has tried to trumpet strong job growth, including on Friday when Mr. Among those who are typically working age - voters 18 to 64 years old - only 6 percent said the economy was good or excellent, while 93 percent rated it poor or only fair. And yet only 1 percent rated economic conditions as excellent. More than 75 percent of voters in the poll said the economy was “extremely important” to them. One in 10 voters named the state of American democracy and political division as the most pressing issue, about the same share who named gun policies, after several high-profile mass shootings. Jobs and the economy were the most important problem facing the country according to 20 percent of voters, with inflation and the cost of living (15 percent) close behind as prices are rising at the fastest rate in a generation. Asked of 191 respondents who said they planned to vote in the 2024 Democratic primary and who preferred a candidate other than Joe Biden in a New York Times/Siena College poll from July 5-7, 2022.
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