Immediately following President Biden’s State of the Union address in March, the incumbent president saw a surge in the polls which seemed poised to revive his campaign and reenergize the Democratic Party.

Now, just two months later, it increasingly appears that Biden’s quiet comeback is running out of steam.

Through mid-April, Biden’s surge persisted, creating the illusion that Biden had finally found his stride and would ride that momentum into the election. However, polls released this week paint a bleak picture.

Indeed, a new national poll from CNN shows former President Donald Trump leading President Biden by 6 points in a head-to-head horserace, 49 percent to 43 percent. Worse, just one-third (34 percent) of voters approve of Biden’s handling of the economy, a tried and true metric for how Americans will likely vote.

Put another way, if consumer sentiment is any indication of Biden’s electoral fate, Democrats have reason to worry. In fact, 65 percent of registered voters say the economy is “extremely important” to them. And, in analyzing how this group of economic-centric voters plan to cast their ballots, Biden is projected to lose by over 30 points, 62 percent to 30 percent.

In that same vein, state-level polling from Fox News shows Trump is back in the driver’s seat, with his New York City trial doing little to dent his numbers. The poll shows Trump leading Biden in the seven key swing states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina,........

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