The findings are notable in an unusual campaign pitting an incumbent president against his predecessor, with both men facing doubters within their own parties and among independents. Consolidating support from Republicans who backed Nikki Haley in the GOP primary could be a challenge for Trump. Biden faces disenchanted progressives to his left and concerns over whether his age, 81, is a liability in the job.

Excitement about the two candidates will be an important factor in a race where turnout from each side’s base will be key. But dislike can motivate voters as much as enthusiasm.

“If there was a third-party candidate who had a chance in hell I would vote for them,” said Austin Healey, a 26-year-old Democrat. Healey, who describes himself as “very liberal,” said his mixed reviews of Biden take a back seat to his concerns that Trump’s comeback bid “looks like a clear ploy for trying to abolish democracy.”

Though he is “not excited about it,” Healey said, that means a vote for Biden.

Derrick Johnson, a Michigan voter who identifies as a liberal independent, offered plenty of critiques against Biden, as well. But the 46-year-old caregiver and food service worker made his bottom line clear: “Donald Trump is a madman. I’m afraid he’ll have us in World War III. My message is anybody but Trump.”

Democrats’ intense feelings about Trump account for the overall differences in how Americans view the two rivals. Altogether, about 4 in 10 U.S. adults say “fearful” would describe their emotions “extremely” or “very” well if Trump is elected again, while roughly 3 in 10 would fear a second Biden term. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults said they would be angered by Trump winning in November while 28% said the same about Biden.

The poll’s findings on negative emotions could be especially important for Biden given his other weak spots, including that Republicans remain more excited about electing Trump again than Democrats are about reelecting Biden. Slightly more than half of Republicans, 54%, said “excited” describes their feelings about another Trump term “extremely well” or “very well.” For Biden, that number was just 4 in 10 among Democrats.

“We know what we’re getting with Trump,” said Republican John Novak, a 54-year-old maintenance worker who lives in swing-state Wisconsin and counted himself among those GOP loyalists who would be excited by another Trump term.

“I knew who he was when he came down that escalator in 2015, and we were never getting Boy Scout material,” Novak said. “But he put conservatives on the Supreme Court, he was firm on immigration ... and he’s a conservative who handled the economy.”

The latest AP-NORC poll showed Biden with an overall approval rating of 38%. U.S. adults also expressed discontent about his handling of the economy and immigration – and not all of the disapproval is driven by partisan loyalties. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults approve of Biden’s stewardship of the economy, roughly equal to his overall job approval rating.

On specific issues, about 3 in 10 Democrats disapprove of Biden’s handling of the economy; about 4 in 10 disapprove of his approach to immigration or border security.

“The situation at the border really bothers me,” said Johnson, the Michigan liberal. “The border crossings are just getting out of control.”

The president and his campaign advisers tout the Biden administration’s legislative record. But the president and his allies are also unsparing in lambasting Trump as interested only in “revenge and retribution” for his defeat in 2020 and the pending criminal prosecutions and other legal troubles that have followed.

They have seized on Trump’s praise of authoritarians like Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Hungary’s Victor Orban and recirculated the former president’s statement that he would be willing to act like a dictator for a day to close the border and expand drilling for fossil fuel.

Trump has countered with searing attacks on Biden’s mental acuity and physical fitness for the presidency and even mocked Biden’s stutter. But the latest poll results suggest Trump has not yet maximized the potential benefits of those attacks — or perhaps that they simply have a lower yield for him.

Biden sometimes turns his version of the argument into a humorous quip he used often in 2020, when he was vying to unseat Trump: “Don’t compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.”

Indeed, that is what resonates with reluctant Democrats and some independents.

“I voted for Trump (in 2016) because I wanted somebody to shake up Washington,” said Neil Murray, a 67-year-old retiree in Jonesboro, Arkansas, who identifies as an independent. “He certainly did that, but he couldn’t do anything productive with it.”

Frustrated with Trump’s negative qualities that he overlooked in 2016, Murray voted for Biden in 2020 — but not enthusiastically. He called Biden “disingenuous on some things” and too close to his left flank on economic policy.

But in November, Murray said, he will have no reservations when casting a second vote for the Democrat, because, “Donald Trump is a screaming lunatic.”

>>1282276
Hey, I already knew.

Democrap. CHUBs fear this thread.

>>1282290
What is chub?

>Murray said, he will have no reservations when casting a second vote for the Democrat, because, “Donald Trump is a screaming lunatic.”
Interesting thing to say, telling a journalist you plan to commit election fraud and vote twice because your scared of an orange man

>>1282301
Cock Hugging Urbanite Bitch.

New thread topic: why are Democrats so easily dog walked by the media? The media focuses on fear, because it sells, and democrats have become fearful as a result. Fear guides their entire political sphere.

>>1282317
black people?

>>1282319
I don't believe black people are the cause of their problems.
It seems more genetic than that, like they are just easily persuaded, herd mentality, that sort of thing

>>1282321
but are you scared that black people exist (you are)

>>1282324
>but are you scared that black people exist
no. Thanks for asking tho, fearful Democrat voter-chan

>>1282326
so can you tell us black lives matter

>>1282327
Yes,why wouldn't they?

>>1282327
Also, why did u pivot to black people and BLM, fearful Democrat voter-chan?

>>1282328
well republican media demonized black people if you didn't know

>>1282276
>The facts are in. Liberals are controlled by fear. Their tiny reptilian brains control they voting habits, and without higher order logic or executive functions, they are dominated by fear and anger.
Holy projection, Batman.

>>1282330
Debatably, but yet the people who watched "republican media" weren't voting because they were afraid of black people.

Just read the op article. They are voting out of hopefulness, according to this publication, while democrats vote out of fear and hate.

>>1282331
How angry and/or afraid are you right now, on a scale of 1 to Trump?

>>1282332
you will convince no one your side isn't terrified of black/transexual people, the evidence is dispensed daily

>>1282334
You people truly cannot meme.

>>1282335
Hm. Some conservatives dislike trans black and trans, yes, but I don't think you understand what fear is. Just imagine how you feel about trump. That mortal terror he instills in your very soul.

Conservatives don't feel that same mortal fear about black or trans people you feel about trump They simply dislike them, shrimple as that

>>1282332
>They are voting out of hopefulness
Hopefulness that their corrupt, nationalist leader will purge the country of undesirables and establish a dictatorship where they can overturn elections and use the government to neutralize political opponents.

>fear and hate.
Fear and hate of a corrupt, nationalist leader who wants to purge the country of undesirables and establish a dictatorship where he can overturn elections and use the government to neutralize political opponents. If anything this article just reinforces how shit GOP candidates are. They're so awful that people are willing to galvanize behind candidates they don't even like just to prevent Republicans from winning office. This is why they always lose the popular vote.

>>1282339
do you think people are fearful that trump is going to fight them? people don't want him to ruin the country more

>>1282276
>A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that Democrats are more likely to report feeling “fearful” or “angry” about the prospects of another Trump term than Republicans are about the idea of Biden remaining in the White House.
>The emotional reaction Trump inspires may work in his favor too, though, since the poll also found that Republicans are more excited about the prospect of a Trump win than Democrats are about a Biden victory.
Kek
Democrats literally embody "the dark side" while republicans are Jedis.

No wonder Democrats are using their position of power to prosecute their political enemies

>>1282340
>Hopefulness that their corrupt, nationalist leader will purge the country of undesirables and establish a dictatorship where they can overturn elections and use the government to neutralize political opponents.
Lol

You are afraid. You really are afraid of something that isn't going to happen..

You people said the same thing in 2016.

Your simple mind is being controlled using fear and anger, you got mindfucked in 2016 and the constant stream of fear from your leftwing propaganda has permanently broken your mind

>>1282339
>Conservatives don't feel that same mortal fear about black or trans people you feel about trump They simply dislike them, shrimple as that
I think its cute that you believe you can honestly gaslight anybody into forgetting that the entire conservative platform is hysterically shrieking about how black communist pedophiles are going to trans everybody's kids.

>>1282343
have a rupee

>>1282344
>hysterically shrieking about how black communist pedophiles are going to trans everybody's kids
Now your straight up gaslighting, faggot.
Go take your TDS somewhere else, schizo

>>1282346
i can't believe you're arguing something this futile. there are exabytes worth of evidence against you

>>1282343
>You are afraid. You really are afraid of something that isn't going to happen.
Well, he tried to do it and the country stopped him.

>You people said the same thing in 2016
Incorrect. In 2016 we said he was going to be a shit president but, honestly, I don't think anybody anticipated what a massive fuckup he was going to be. If anything his corruption and derangement was massively underrated.

>Your simple mind is being controlled using fear and anger, you got mindfucked in 2016 and the constant stream of fear from your leftwing propaganda has permanently broken your mind
Nobody above 70 IQ is going to fall for this pathetic gaslighting campaign. Trump is currently under 91 felony indictments for his corruption in office. Anybody with a functioning frontal lobe and a respect for the constitution understands how dangerous Trump and his minions are. This is why people are accurately and justifiably afraid of a second term.

>>1282347
Prove your claim.what conservative news warns that "black communist pedophiles are going to trans everybody's kids"

Put up or shut up, TDS retard

>>1282346
Unfortunately for you I have eyes and ears. We've all been here every day watching you psychopaths reee about the globohomo jewish tranny apparatus coming to steal your child's genitals. I have no clue how you think you can convince everyone that reality doesn't exist.

>>1282349
i like it when you're this silly, it's more like trolling than disinfo

>>1282340
>nationalist leader
Why do pro-american leaders scare you, Colon Ramdeep?

>>1282352
pro-america =/= nationalist. watering down your extremism didn't work in 2020 and it won't work now.

>>1282350
Honestly I've been convinced that's on of you faggots false flagging.
There's someone who posts on here believable conservative, and there's someone who just pukes up 20 buzzwords once in an argument and disappears and it really seems like another left wing activist larping because it's a really poor, unbelievable act

>>1282354
the difference is negligible these days

>>1282355
No, to an outside party it's pretty noticable and obvious

>>1282354
>Honestly I've been convinced that's on of you faggots false flagging.
This is the conspiracy you people use every time one of you gets caught being deranged.

>There's someone who posts on here believable conservative, and there's someone who just pukes up 20 buzzwords once in an argument and disappears and it really seems like another left wing activist larping because it's a really poor, unbelievable act
Your gaslighting won't work. We've all been here for years watching far-right schizos have absolutely meltdowns over trans people and communists and pedophiles apparently trying to take over the world and indoctrinate everyone. Honestly, you're really boring. "Everything you see and hear is actually not real and never happened!" isn't an argument that I can engage with.

>>1282356
i beg to differ

>>1282357
Why are you so angry and fearful? I can already guess your voting habits

>>1282358
Well of course, when your angry, fear-riddled brain is easily tricked, it seems unbelievable to you that others may not be

>>1282360
is that so

>>1282276
>Hey you know that president that sent his rioters to the capitol and tried to coup the government? Yeah, apparently people are afraid of him winning the election again.
Wow what shocking news

>Democrats in 2008 and 2012: picture of Obama with the word HOPE
>Democrats in 2016, 2020, 2024: picture of Trump with the word FEAR

>>1282367
>afraid of migrants are crossing the border
>afraid of black people shooting up neighborhoods
>afraid of trannies are indoctrinated your children
>afraid of homeless liberals are living in tents behind starbucks
>but it's actually dems who are afraid
Ok boomer

>>1282369
These aren't fears because these are negative things that actually happen in reality.
Trump winning and stealing all the gay sex from faggots and reattaching all the troon cocks are just fantasies you've made up.

>>1282339
>Conservatives don't feel that same mortal fear about black or trans people
Hahaha, good one!

>>1282276
OP and his mediocre iq don't scare me.
But then I'm not a liberal, I'm a Trotskyist socialist, and it's fascist scum like the OP that supported Stalin aNd Hitler, and J E Hoover and tRump and murdered good people like Trotsky.

You're kind is irredeemable, and will be no education 'camp' for you. It's the WALL.

>>1282404
wtf are you even on about?!?
Can you use your words to pass thought plz not gibberish.

>>1282357
lol.. you did exactly what he said..

>>1282404
FUCK YEAH!

>>1282409
It's a high IQ thing. You wouldn't understand.

>>1282383
Literally this

>>1282383
They don't happen as often as you would like to justify your insane fears
>>1282414
He's crazy and so are you if you agree

>>1282276
afraid you lost.

>>1282416
To be completely objective in the matter, from a statistical standpoint, a random American has a much much greater likelihood of being victimized by a black person than by Donald Trump, there's simply so much more of them and the only one Donald Trump

Not even against black people here, just pointing out a fact

>>1282428
This is simply not true. The problem is you refuse to objectively classify the shit Trump does as harmful.

>>1282430
>harmful
What's your definition of the word 'victim'? Because honestly if 'harm' is the definition we are going with I was much more harmed by the effects of COVID or BLM than anything trumps done

>>1282431
BLM caused a national spike in murder rates

>>1282431
>>1282432
Chud headcanon is so wild

>>1282428
Yet most violence is intraracial. Thanks for proving OP is a projecting hypocrite

>>1282444
According to whom?

>>1282434
You've seen a murder rate chart for the last last 5 years in the US, in sure
Everyone here has.
Your gaslighting doesn't work here.

>>1282445
FBI data. But keep proving you're run by fear of black people among other things

>>1282444
>Yet most violence is intraracial
Doesn't this literally prove this: >>1282428 ?

>>1282449
it proves you can't read, who's surprised though

>>1282446
The murder rate chart for the last 20 years tells a different tale

>>1282450
No, it doesn't, you used the term "violence", unless if you are suggesting that Donald Trump goes out on foot and personally commits literally superhuman levels of violence against non-whites, you are wrong

also the stat you're citing literally shows that the bulk of interracial violence is black on white

>>1282448
The FBI says their own data is biased and wrong but keep citing it like it means something if it makes you feel better and not afraid

>>1282451
15 years of it was before BLM your purposefully muddying the waters here.

I can take a murder rate chart from 1782 and it doesn't tell me shit about movement that became popular 4 years ago, but you know this

>>1282454
>muh BLM
How did this twitter hashtag become such a boogyeman for you?

See how easy it was to derail the thread by getting republicans all riled up about their fear of black people

>>1282456
If it isn't black people it's MS-13, if it isn't mexicans or hondurans it's Trannies selling beer, if it isn't Rupaul it's Hillary Clinton.

>>1282456
remember this is coming from the same people who are afraid of a sexy green feminist M&M character

>>1282456
Far beit from humble 4chan /news/men to stop Democrats from talking about black people in unrelated threads.

>thread is about liberals letting fear and anger control them
>Liberals begin talking non-stop about gays and blacks
Why are liberals like this?

>>1282469
gaslight better pussy

>>1282471
Shut up retard

>>1282457
Hillary was right.

>>1282472
Fuck off boomer

>>1282276
Democrat voters really are victims of mass media psychosis.
It's really sad

>>1282518
vax status?

>>1282473
Just be normal.

This is actual news and proven fact.

>>1282327
All lives matter.
>>1282330
No, they correctly pointed out your violent attempted communist revolution which crashed and burned when you tried it in small towns and got your twig-armed asses beat by local yokels and shot in the streets by teenage boys with borrowed AR-15s.

>>1282335
I'm convinced by him. He sounds calm and you sound scared. Finding you gross is not the same as finding you scary.

>>1282340
>establish a dictatorship where they can overturn elections and use the government to neutralize political opponents.
You mean the exact thing the Democrats are doing? Which side is trying to criminalize speech and disarm the populace again?

>>1282610
Do you still have your tiki torch?

>ITT: dude trust me Republicans are bad
The absolute state of commie shills

>>1282363
It was real in your imagination and nowhere else.

>>1282453
>Noooo listen to our cope not the numbers
13
Do
50

>>1282475
Nah
>>1282612
Several, why? You planning to burn your own neighborhoods again?

>>1282617
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOz1Bdq1t2M
They're talking about (You)

>>1282615
It's like 14/65 or something now.

right wingers are hilariously inconsistent. why can't they stop crying about black people in their own thread about liberals being supposedly run by fear

>>1282622
they need to be afraid of white replacement and helter skelter

>>1282624
>The song was McCartney's attempt to create a sound as loud and dirty as possible.
Hmm. Interesting Manson's thoughts on the race war were called such a thing.
At least he succeeded in getting the jews to postpone plans for a few decades.

>>1282618
Given modern events, the existence of this channel is hilarious.
>ethnocentrism and ethnic cleansing is bad!
>meanwhile in gaza jews are tying up prisoners and running them over with tanks
Great job guys, thanks for the heads up.

>>1282622
>Democrat brings up a topic
>Refuse to drop it
>Spam it
>Lol look at everyone talking about this topic!
You people brought up black people and wouldn't shut the fuck up. You even bragged about it.

>>1282649
until you have accountability no one is going to take you seriously

>>1282618
I don't care and am not watching that shit.

>>1282653
I'm taking him seriously and so do most people. Good luck with your adpop fallacy.

>>1282658
>having accountability is a fallacy
i wonder why you're so unpopular

>>1282276
Proves that biased right wing media is overblown. Their audience doesn’t care.

>>1282660
Your illiteracy isn't my problem.
>>1282665
>Proves
Howso?

>>1282665
...what? Are you angry?

>>1282716
Yes. I thought I was trans so I had my testicles removed, now I'm an angry, fat CHUB.

>>1282276
This makes me so fkn angry I'm afraid

>the DNC: "Did You Ever Hear The Tragedy Of Darth Plagueis The Wise?"

Demshills are scared of this thread.

>>1282789
Kek

>>1282276
This is so angering it's scary

you know it's bad when the shills have to resort to pretending to be left wing

>>1283014
Yes, these right wing shills makes me afraid.
And angry

Trump: "Except for Day 1."
Hannity: "Except for?"
Trump: (pointing to Hannity) "Look, he’s going crazy. Except for Day 1."
Hannity: "Meaning?"
Trump: "I want to close the border and I want to drill, drill, drill."
Hannity: "That’s not retribution."
Trump, referring to Hannity: "We love this guy. He says, ‘You are not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said, ‘No, no, no, other than Day 1.’ We are closing the border and we are drilling, drilling, drilling. After that I am not a dictator, OK?"
Hannity: "That sounds to me like you’re going back to the policies when you were president."

I mean, can you blame dem voters for being concerned that this is the guy that they're up against? To be clear, I'm referring to the fact that he more or less admitted that he wants to be a dictator even if he tried to be somewhat vague about it, not the fact that this transcript makes him sound like a senile fox news viewer (which he is).

>>1283024
You people have been angry and afraid for like 3 federal election cycles now.
Don't act like it all started with an interview done in the last year

>>1283094
It's been going on a bit more than a year, I'd say people started seriously viewing Trump as a threat to liberal democracy after the whole Jan 6th incident. You'd probably be concerned (reasonably so) if the tables were turned and it was Biden supporters breaking into the White House after losing an election even though you'll never admit it.

>>1282276
as apposed to....?