During an interview over the weekend, CNN anchor Jake Tapper said that President Biden was bringing down other Democrat candidates, according to new polling data.
Tapper made his comments while interviewing Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) on Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” show.
“Let’s talk about the campaign, because Trump was in battleground Michigan last night making a pitch to African-American voters,” Tapper said. “Polls show Biden trailing Trump in key battleground states and polling well behind your Senate colleagues who are running for reelection.”
“Look at this New York Times poll from last month,” he continued. “Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin is up nine points in Wisconsin. Biden’s only up two points. Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey up five in PA. Biden’s down three. Arizona Congressman Ruben Gallego, running for Senate in Arizona, up four, Biden down seven. Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen up two in Nevada. Biden’s down 12.”
“How can you look at this, these statistics, these numbers and not conclude that Joe Biden is a drag on the ticket?” he asked.
Murphy responded by denying the results of the poll, saying that the elections would have different results and that it was only “one poll” — even though Trump has consistently outperformed Biden in polls from battleground states, according to the polling average from RealClearPolling.
“I mean, you’re happy for your colleagues, I’m sure, but Biden is underpolling all of them,” Tapper responded.
Murphy again could only respond by saying “that’s one poll” and claimed that there were “60 other polls that show that Joe Biden is in the lead,” but couldn’t point to any polls specifically.
