Nets Bury Worst Poll Yet for Biden (So SHOCKING, Even CNN and MSNBC Cover)

On Wednesday Joe Biden saw a new shocking low in the polls. Quinnipiac reports that approval has dropped to 33%. However, the horrible news that CNN and MSNBC had to report on Thursday was not reported by any of these networks. The new low was not covered by them. 

You can find the following: New York Post explained on Thursday, “President Biden’s job approval rating has tumbled to 33 percent in the latest Quinnipiac University poll, a whopping 17 percentage-point drop from February and an indication of American voters’ deep dissatisfaction over his administration’s response to rising inflation and a resurgence of COVID-19.” 

Yet despite a combined six hours of air time, ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Mornings and NBC’s TodayAll ignored the negative news about the Democrat. It is best to be optimistic GMA could do is when reporter Cecilia Vega vaguely explained, “The President, we’ve been talking about this, has really taken a hit in the polls because of this ongoing pandemic.”  

Yet unlike the networks, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle on Wednesday night commented on the myriad of problems hitting Biden, noting: “As the White House juggles all of these issues, there was some more troubling numbers out. Today’s Quinnipiac poll shows Joe Biden only 33 percent approval. That is a new low for his presidency.”

CNN on Thursday covered the Quinnipiac numbers under the laughable context of reminding viewers that Biden’s approval rating is not above 60 percent. Here’s New Day’John Berman, reporter Harry Enten 

JOHN BERMAN: When, Harry, though, does a President’s party gain seats [in the midterms]? 

HARRY ENTEN (CNN Senior data reporter): Yeah. If we take a look at the history, it happens only a few times. It happens when the president’s approval rating exceeds 60 percent. That’s not the case right now. Quinnipiac had Biden’s approval rating at 33 percent. This average falls closer to the 40s. But it’s not even close to that 60% park. 

Fox News also highlighted this number on Thursday and Wednesday. Last week’s study revealed that networks did not consider three low survey results, with Biden ranked at 42, 42 and 40. In October, I wrote a study for NewsBusters explaining that, during the same time period in 2017, the networks covered Biden’s bad polling by almost two-to-one more than Donald Trump’s low numbers.

On Tuesday, an I&I/TIPP poll found a majority of Republicans AND Democrats want to retain the filibuster. The poll also received no attention from the networks. The networks are doing their best to protect the increasingly awful news for Biden, but it’s clearly not working. 

The bias by omission on CBS was sponsored by Progressive, on ABC by McDonald’s and on NBC by Planet Fitness. You can click the links below to tell them what you think. 

Below are partial transcripts. Click “expand” to read more. 

Good Morning America 
1/13/2022
CECILIA VEGA: The president, we’ve been talking about this, has really taken a hit in the polls because of this ongoing pandemic. Today’s White House strategy is to try and make the pandemic more public. 

11th Hour
1/12/2022
STEPHANIE RUHLE “As the White House juggles all of these issues, there was some more troubling numbers out. According to the Quinnipiac survey, Joe Biden is only 33% in approval. It is a record low for Joe Biden’s presidency.

 

Neue Day

JOHN BERMAN: When, Harry, though, does a President’s party gain seats? 

HARRY ENTEN (CNN Senior data reporter): Yeah. If we take a look at the history, it happens only a few times. The president has a high approval rating of 60 percent. That’s not the case right now. Quinnipiac had Biden’s approval rating at 33 percent. This average falls closer to the 40s. However, it is not close to the 60 percent.