It’s May 2, just over six months until the midterm elections, which are
generally a referendum on the president’s performance. President Joe
Biden is in rough shape. Let’s look at how it happened, and how he hopes
to prevent a wipeout …

How they got here: As early as April 2021, John Anzalone — Biden’s top
pollster — saw the writing on the wall. In a series of memos over the
ensuing months, he tried to warn the president about the growing
liabilities posed by immigration, inflation and crime, report NYT’s
Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns.

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