‘Trump Has His Work Cut Out For Him’: CNN’s Jim Acosta Pushes Back When Asked If Biden ‘Is In Big Trouble’ In 2024

CNN anchor and chief domestic correspondent Jim Acosta told Mediaite it’s former President Donald Trump who has his work cut out for him when asked if President Joe Biden’s 2024 bid “is in big trouble.”

Acosta was a guest on this week’s edition of Mediaite’s new Press Club podcast, hosted by Aidan McLaughlin. Acosta made no bones about his feelings on a second Trump term, but even notwithstanding Democratic division over the Israel-Hamas war he doesn’t see that happening:

AIDAN MCLAUGHLIN: He’s facing tough polling numbers. There’s the threat of Arab Americans and younger Americans abandoning him over his support for Israel. And then there’s also some troubling trends in certain demographics that voted for him big in 2020. Do you think that his reelection prospects are in big trouble right now?

JIM ACOSTA: I don’t think so. There’s sort of a conventional wisdom. You talk to people around Washington, “Well you getting ready for the next Trump administration?” like wait a minute, we’ve got to have the election! We haven’t had the election yet.

I will say you don’t underestimate how much people dislike Donald Trump. His negatives are extremely high. There are just some people who are never going to get over January 6.

There are many Republicans, and if you look at the Nikki Haley Republicans and the percentage, people talk about all these states where Joe Biden is losing a certain percentage of votes, but if you look at it, that phenomenons also happening with Trump, and to some degree it’s worse in how it’s happening in some of these states.

So I do think Trump has his work cut out for him, and just the way he’s conducting himself out on the campaign trail, praising January 6 rioters as hostages, talking about poisoning the blood of our country, how does that at all help him with suburban female voters outside of Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit, and so on? I just don’t see it, and he’s not going to change course.

I’ve covered him for too long. He is not. You could get a vice presidential candidate that can soften him around the edges and so on, I just don’t see any of that occurring.

The one thing that could hand the election to Donald Trump is the RFK Jr., you mentioned him earlier, candidacy. Cornel West, Jill Stein, you add up those votes in a place like Wisconsin, it could be enough. 6,500 votes, something like that, boom, Donald Trump wins the state of Wisconsin and it becomes a really dark night for Joe Biden and the Democrats. That’s not beyond the realm of possibility. It’s not far fetched at all.

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