As they prepare for their face-off on the debate stage next month, warning signals are flashing for President Biden and former President Donald Trump in their 2024 election rematch \u2013 as they both appear to struggle to lock up their base voters.<\/p>\n
More than two months after she dropped out of the Republican presidential nomination race, zombie candidate Nikki Haley is still grabbing sizable support in the GOP primaries at the expense of Trump.<\/p>\n
And Biden is continuing to deal with a persistent \u2018uncommitted\u2019 vote protesting the president\u2019s support for Israel in its war with Hamas in Gaza.<\/p>\n
\u2018You going to see most Democrats and most Republicans come home. But there are so many warning signs flashing in these primaries,\u2019 David Kochel, a longtime Republican consultant and veteran of numerous GOP presidential campaigns, told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n
One week after Haley won 22% of the vote in Indiana\u2019s GOP presidential primary, where independents and Democrats could vote, it was supposed to be a different story on Tuesday as Maryland, Nebraska, and West Virginia held mostly closed Republican contests.<\/p>\n
But according to unofficial results, Haley grabbed 21% support in Maryland and 18% in Nebraska.<\/p>\n
And Haley performed strongest in suburban areas in both states, as she also did in earlier primaries held after she suspended her presidential bid. It\u2019s another potential general election problem for Trump, who is currently making history as the first former or current president to stand trial in a criminal case.<\/p>\n
\u2018It might just be that Republicans want one last chance to express their dissatisfaction with the nominee and they\u2019ll come home,\u2019 Kochel, who remained neutral in the 2024 GOP nomination race, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018But if I\u2019m running the Trump campaign, particularly as I look towards the vice presidential nomination, I would be trying to figure out anyway I could to reassure the Haley voters that we\u2019re going to listen to them and not just run a base only strategy,\u2019 he suggested.<\/p>\n
Biden also saw a red flag in Tuesday\u2019s primaries, as 10% of votes in the Democratic presidential contest in Maryland were \u2018uncommitted,\u2019 according to unofficial and incomplete tabulations. It\u2019s the latest example of far left voters expressing their dissatisfaction with the president\u2019s Mideast policies.<\/p>\n
The primaries were held on the eve of a proposal by Biden and his re-election campaign to hold presidential debates with Trump in June and early September \u2013 with a vice presidential debate over the summer \u2013 to which Trump quickly agreed.<\/p>\n
Mark Penn, the longtime Democratic pollster, former top political adviser to former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Fox News contributor, pointed to Biden\u2019s anemic poll numbers in the key battleground states as he argued the president\u2019s debate proposal came out of weakness.<\/p>\n
\u2018You don\u2019t want to debate when you\u2019re ahead. You want to avoid debates at all costs,\u2019 Penn said in an interview on Fox News\u2019 \u2018America\u2019s Newsroom.\u2019 \u2018Obviously it\u2019s uphill for President Biden, or he wouldn\u2019t be debating in the first place.\u2019<\/p>\n
National surveys for months have indicated that many Americans are anything but thrilled with the rematch between the 81-year-old Democratic incumbent and his 77-year-old predecessor in the White House.<\/p>\n
\u2018You\u2019re going to put the most unpopular politicians we\u2019ve ever seen run against each other in front of 80 million people on a debate stage. One of them is famously bombastic and toxic and loose with the facts. The other one is barely able to get out a sentence. He had six jump cuts in a 13-second video they put out today,\u2019 Kochel said as he pointed to Trump and specifically to Biden\u2019s video proposing the debates.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And Kochel predicted that the debates may \u2018reinforce to the country how dissatisfied they are with these choices.\u2019<\/p>\n\n
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