Skip to main content
BUST OUT THE AVIATORS

The Big Red Warning Light Biden Needs to Heed

The president’s struggling to keep up with Trump in swing states like Georgia, Nevada, and Arizona.

A photo animation of President Joe Biden with a drop of sweat and the sun.

Animation by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty

Whether or not his campaign admits it, President Joe Biden has a Sun Belt problem.

Biden is holding up just fine in expectedly tight races with Donald Trump in the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Yet in the Sun Belt—the stretch of states from North Carolina and Georgia to Nevada and Arizona—Trump is giving Biden a shellacking with hefty leads, particularly in those two key desert states, according to a new New York Times/Siena College/Philadelphia Inquirer poll.

TRENDING NOW