College of Political Knowledge

2024 Election Series

2024 is an election that has two candidates that few voters seem to like and in some cases hate.

I will admit that I would not vote for Trump on threat of death and Biden to me is just a spineless tool of big business….I will not vote for either of these candidates and will most likely look elsewhere to put my vote…..just so I can get the endless trash talk about my choice.

All this said has there ever been two more disliked candidates in recent memory?

No there has not and ABC covers the subject…..

Shocking news: Americans are not jazzed about their choices in the 2024 presidential election. According to 538’s averages,* only 43 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of former President Donald Trump, while 53 percent have an unfavorable opinion. And only 40 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of President Joe Biden; 55 percent have an unfavorable one.

It’s historically unusual for any major-party nominee to be this unpopular — let alone both of them. Using 538’s current polling-average methodology, we went back and calculated retroactive favorability averages for every Democratic and Republican presidential nominee since 1980.** By late October before the election, only seven of the 22 candidates had negative net favorability ratings.

If Trump’s and Biden’s net favorability ratings remain underwater through Election Day, 2024 will be only the second presidential election since at least 1980 in which Americans had a negative view of both candidates. The first was in 2016 — which also happens to be the only recent presidential election in which the two candidates were, on average, more disliked than Trump and Biden are now.

It’s possible that, with most Americans entrenched in their partisan camps and believing that the country is on the wrong track, we’ve entered an era of perpetually unpopular presidential candidates. Before 2016, no presidential nominee in at least 36 years was more than 9 percentage points underwater; since then, five of the six have been.

https://abcnews.go.com/538/americans-hated-candidates-biden-trump/story

I also read that another batch of ‘people’ are calling it quits for 2024 because their popularity was not there….I am talking about the ‘centrist’ attempt to field candidates “No Labels’……

After running up a series of high-profile rejections from potential candidates, No Labels is abandoning its efforts to field a 2024 presidential ticket, reports the Wall Street Journal. The centrist group announced the decision on Thursday after being rebuffed by contenders including Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, Joe Manchin, and former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan. The group had raised $60 million with the intention of fielding a candidate should Donald Trump and President Biden end up as their parties’ nominees, per the New York Times.

“Today, No Labels is ending our effort to put forth a Unity ticket in the 2024 presidential election,” Nancy Jacobson, the group’s leader, said in a statement. “Americans remain more open to an independent presidential run and hungrier for unifying national leadership than ever before. But No Labels has always said we would only offer our ballot line to a ticket if we could identify candidates with a credible path to winning the White House. No such candidates emerged, so the responsible course of action is for us to stand down.” The move also comes after the death of the group’s founding chair, Joe Lieberman.

That gets rid of one group of ‘centrists’ now if we can keep this flow going then this country may have a chance.

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