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"Blame the economy on Biden"
You mean the metrics showing that under Biden at the end we had one of our strongest economies in our nation's history? Of course, all of the excess wealth was going to the 1%, so average dumb red hat wouldn't have noticed.
Polling is irrelevant now anyway. There won't be another free election anytime soon.
Maybe most of it, but certainly not all. Real wages were consistently going up under Biden, especially for the bottom 10% of earners. This isn't as apparent as it should be partially because he did fuck all to combat price gouging.
https://www.factcheck.org/2024/06/competing-narratives-on-real-wages-incomes-under-biden/
Real wages were up since the beginning of the pandemic in 2019, but not up since Biden's term began in 2021. If measuring specifically Biden's term, wages did not keep up with inflation. This is complicated by the fact that job losses mostly clustered around lower income workers in the pandemic, so their re-entering the workforce dragged the dataset down.
Basically, it's complicated.
A big problem Democrats had in the election was refusing to acknowledge real problems in the economy, though. They tried to paint a mixed situation as wholly good and told suffering people that they're stupid for believing their lying eyes.