As Joe Biden continues to try and chase down Donald Trump to win re-election, some Republicans who voted for him in 2020 are struggling to commit to changing sides a second time.
Poll after poll has shown President Biden in trouble against Trump in their 2024 rematch, both nationally and in key swing states.
Christopher Shays, a former GOP Congressman from Connecticut who voted for Biden in 2020, now says he’s ‘unlikely’ to make the leap for the president again this November.
He asked: ‘A lot of us are wrestling with, how can we support him when he’s gone so far to the left?’
Shays, who served in the House from 1987 to 2009, is now considering voting for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
As Joe Biden continues to try and chase down Donald Trump to win re-election, some Republicans who voted for him in 2020 like Christopher Shays (pictured) are struggling to commit to changing sides a second time
According to a New York Times report, Shays shares the sentiments of many Republicans who flipped for Biden in 2020, saying they’ve felt largely ignored by his time in office.
The latest blow to Biden’s efforts to court the GOP: Nikki Haley’s admission that she will vote for Trump.
‘The Haley endorsement of Trump is a blow,’ Adam Kinzinger, the anti-Trump former Congressman who served on the January 6 committee, said.
‘If you don’t have other Republicans out there creating a permission structure for those folks to vote Democratic, I don’t know how you expect to get many of them.’
He says he hasn’t heard much from the Biden campaign about helping out and says if they don’t try to use him to gain Republican support, ‘it’s political malpractice.’
Ex-Republican and former Congressman David Jolly, says that a recent email sent out to Republicans saw responses that shocked him.
‘My eyes were opened at the level of anger and disgust at Biden, truly,’ he said. ‘There is a real disappointment in Biden’s policy direction.’
It comes as a new poll shows Trump and Biden neck-and-neck in blue New Hampshire – the latest in a series of polls that raise warning signs for the struggling president as the general election season heats up
Poll after poll has shown President Biden in trouble against Trump in their 2024 rematch
However, New York Republican and former Congresswoman Susan Molinari, who spoke for Biden at the Democrat Convention in 2020, echoes that there’s been little outreach.
‘I’m concerned about the state of the campaign, that there has been little to no outreach to almost every Republican that I know who wants to help,’ she said.
She added that, while she will vote Biden again, ‘I think everyone’s just sort of scratching their head.’
Republicans like former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel – who served in the Obama-Biden administration – and former Congressmembers Jim Greenwood and Claudine Schneider all say they’re continuing to support the president.
It comes as a new poll shows Trump and Biden neck-and-neck in blue New Hampshire – the latest in a series of polls that raise warning signs for the struggling president as the general election season heats up.
But the New Hampshire Journal/Praecones Analytica poll finds the pair tied in the state with less than six months to go before Election Day.
Trump has 36.6 percent among registered voters while Biden has 36.5 percent in the state.
The latest blow to Biden’s efforts to court the GOP: Nikki Haley’s admission that she will vote for Trump
‘The Haley endorsement of Trump is a blow,’ Adam Kinzinger, the anti-Trump former Congressman who served on the January 6 committee, said
Independent candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. is polling at 14.6 percent, according to the poll.
Biden is struggling with swing voters in the famously independent thinking state according to Praecones Analytica’s Jonathan Klinger.
‘While registered voters of both parties are largely united around their nominee, independent/undeclared voters are splitting their support in four statistically indistinguishable ways: between Biden, Trump, Kennedy, and other unnamed candidates,’ Klingler told the New Hampshire Journal.
He noted that by comparison to exit polls in the 2020 presidential election, independent/undeclared voters in the state show significantly lower support for Biden.
