President Joe Biden’s lackluster campaign is losing one of the few key Democratic talking points left in the 2024 election besides abortion.
It’s an issue that has become dominant even in many House and Senate races since the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. As former President Donald Trump edges closer to winning back the White House, liberals have warned that “democracy itself” is on the ballot.
Democrats presumably believe that voters agree with them that Trump is a threat to the Constitution and believe the media’s breathless claims, to quote ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, that “bedrock tenets of our democracy are being tested in a way we haven’t seen since the Civil War.”
But, it turns out, not so much.
In fact, it appears that Trump and Republicans own the democracy argument.
Rasmussen Reports posed that question to likely voters — 35% Democrat, 33% Republican, and 32% independent — and found a sizable gap between those who believe Trump was a better protector of democracy than Biden has been.
When asked, “In terms of preserving, protecting and defending the Constitution, has President Biden done a better job or a worse job than former President Trump?” 40% said better and 47% worse. Only 10% said the “same.”
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What’s more, a majority of likely voters believe that Biden has done a poor job protecting the Constitution. Some 55% said he has done a fair to poor job, while 44% believe he has done a good to excellent job.
While partisanship plays a giant role in the answers, more Republicans than Democrats have a “very favorable” opinion of the Constitution, 70%-52%, said the pollster.
