On 2/6/2023, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “I mean, given that poll, which, you know, is not just a single poll, it’s been — you know, versions of that had been repeated in poll after poll, survey after survey since the midterm elections and before. And I think one of my colleagues referenced a recent poll that said 60-something percent — more Democrats don’t want President Biden to be their nominee than Republicans don’t want President Trump to be their nominee. So, given all of that, why are you so convinced that it was President Biden that caused the Democratic success in the midterms and not that the Democrats had success in spite of the President?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Well, I’ll say this: Because if you look at what candidates — senators and congressional members — ran on, it was the successes that the President had … If you hear the message that was coming out of Democrats during the midterms, it was what we were able to deliver. So, yes — so that’s what they used. Right? They used exactly what the President was able to do in order to get that success. And so —

Poll after poll, most Dems don’t want Biden, no midterm red wave not because of Biden? part 2