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Julia Johnson, Politics Reporter


NextImg:Biden campaign takes victory lap on Democratic wins after poor polling


President Joe Biden's 2024 reelection campaign cheered on a successful election night for Democratic candidates on Tuesday, saying voters chose his agenda over "MAGA extremism." The relatively unexpected Democratic sweep came after new polling showed the president losing to former President Donald Trump in several pivotal states in 2024.

On Election Day, Kentucky voters reelected Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY), Virginia Democratic candidates took the House of Delegates and maintained the majority in the state Senate, and New Jersey Democrats expanded their majority and held on to their Democratic trifecta. In one of the sole Republican wins, however, Gov. Tate Reeves (R-MS) was reelected in Mississippi.

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In response to the positive Democratic results, Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement, “Tonight, Democrats across the country won because they ran on standing up for personal freedoms, defending democracy, and fighting for working families. Voters across the political spectrum once again showed up and voted for our agenda and rejected the dangerous MAGA extremism that has come to define today’s Republican Party at every level.“

"In hundreds of races since Donald Trump’s conservative Supreme Court appointments overturned Roe v. Wade, we’ve seen Americans overwhelmingly side with President Biden and Democrats’ vision for this country. That same choice will be before voters again next November, and we are confident the American people will send President Biden and Vice President Harris back to the White House to keep working for them,” she added.

After newly released polling from the New York Times and Siena College showed Trump besting Biden in five of the six battleground states considered the most significant in 2024, concerns over Democratic chances on 2023's election night grew. But as votes began rolling in and Democratic candidates posted important wins, the president's allies quickly touted the election as proof of the Biden model.

"Once again, @JoeBiden leads his party to victory where it counts — not in punditry or polling, cable round tables or daily newsletters — but at the polls in elections," former White House chief of staff Ronald Klain wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.


In a separate post following Kentucky Republican gubernatorial candidate Daniel Cameron's loss, Klain asked, "How did the Biden bashing work for you?"

MSNBC host Chris Hayes observed in a post, "The political experience of the Biden era for Democrats is: extended periods of intense anxiety about terrible polling, occasionally punctuated by strangely positive election nights. And then the cycle repeats."


Democratic strategist Josh Schwerin pointed out that after the results were in, "President Biden, a longtime winner of elections, exhibited a business-as-usual approach in calling to congratulate Governor Beshear on his reelection, and made no mention of the polling from the New York Times and Siena College polls."

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Another Biden ally, strategist Chris Jackson, slammed various media coverage of the poor polling for Biden. "Surprise! The media got it wrong again. After weeks of blabbing about how Democrats were in big trouble, we won big tonight in Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio and in communities all across the nation. And guess what? Next year, Joe Biden will defeat Donald Trump once again. We just need to ignore the media, ignore the polls, work like hell, and keep the faith," he wrote on X.

The Democratic overperformance and Republican underperformance as compared to expectations for the election hearkened back to the predicted 2022 midterm elections "red wave," which didn't materialize, leaving Republicans in the House of Representatives with a razor-thin majority.