It will be a few weeks before the fallout of the Trump guilty verdict can be properly assessed. But what won’t change are the fundamental problems facing President Biden’s re-election campaign. Of course, Team Biden remains in the denial stage about “misinformed” voters, unfair media and the whole typical menu of excuses and self-pity.

Biden’s polling problems have been evident for months. The incumbent president fell behind Donald Trump in several key swing states over the course of 2023, and he has remained down since then. The key Great Lakes states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are perhaps coin flips, with Trump generally holding a very thin lead. His national approval ratings, according to the RealClearPolitics average, continue to be awful.

As bad as Biden’s polling is, there is little prospect of improvement — at least through any effort by Team Biden. The Democrats have been far outspending Trump and the Republicans throughout the Biden administration, to little effect. The advertising blitz in states like Pennsylvania is not working. Biden has been trying to claw back Black voters for over a year to his 2020 vote level, and that’s not working either.

For Team Biden, it’s the same old excuse: bad marketing. They keep swallowing their own propaganda about their “achievements.” But the fact is, Joe Biden has not delivered for the American people. According to The Economist (hardly a pro-Trump outlet), Biden’s infrastructure spending boost has been completely consumed by inflation. In fact, infrastructure spending in real dollars is down.

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