A critical group of swing voters was asked to give a brief, one-word description of the emotions they feel upon seeing President Biden.
The answers were bleak: “Indifferent … mixed to indifferent … bored … ambivalent … frustrated … flabbergasted … lost.”
Then the same voters, who had cast ballots for Donald Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020, were asked for a show of hands for those who would support the former president in a rematch vs. the sitting president.
“None of you,” Rich Thau, president of market research company Engagious, said to his focus group Tuesday night in Pennsylvania.
It’s the same thread Thau has seen in focus groups all year. In six key battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — he has asked 89 Trump-Biden voters the same question about how they would vote in a rematch, and just 13 would prefer the former president.
This independent-inclined group has grown quite sour on Biden and the…
This article was written by Paul Kane and originally published on www.washingtonpost.com