There was a lot more in this week’s Wall Street Journal survey than the finding than what we picked up that the GOP primary swung 27 points in the fat former President’s favor against heels-wearing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis since the last time they asked the question in December.
Of course Trump has no problem accepting that finding from the same survey (though to be fair it’s not like he’s cherry picking because that’s among Republican respondents in the sample). What Trump is crying about here is Biden’s 48 to 45 percent 2024 general election lead over him the survey found, and probably that it also found DeSantis leading Biden in a hypothetical matchup by the same numbers, 48 to 45 percent. An even more troubling finding that the fat idiot probably didn’t notice is Biden’s massive lead among the “both of them suck” respondents by a staggering 54 to 15 percent. Remember this was a huge, quite possibly even the determinative difference between Hillary 2016 and Biden 2020: That Trump crushed Hillary with voters who disapproved of both of them, while that edge was erased against Biden in pre-2020 election polling.
Though the best part about Trump’s reaction is that he’s calling it a “globalist-inspired Wall Street Journal” poll, which is true insomuch as the Journal commissioned the survey. It was actually conducted however by Fabrizio Lee, the Trump 2016 and 2020 campaign pollster who we would guess is going to work with him again in 2024 too. Unless Trump fires them.