The results of internal Democratic polling leaked to a D.C.-focused news organization are more bad news for President Joe Biden following his horrendous debate against former President Donald Trump a week ago.

According to Puck News, Biden is losing even more ground to former President Donald Trump in the battleground states, but also, reliably blue states that have voted Democrat for decades are also in play, the polling shows.

The nonprofit OpenLabs “conducts polling and message-testing for a constellation of Democratic groups, including the 501(c)4 nonprofit associated with Future Forward, the preferred Super PAC for Biden’s reelection campaign,” veteran political journalist and former CNN correspondent Peter Hamby wrote. OpenLabs is a Democrat/left polling firm.

Hamby wrote that the data found that 40 percent of voters who supported Biden in 2020 now think he should leave the race. An OpenLabs poll in May had that number at only 25 percent.

“This is, of course, only a single poll, conducted during the initial aftershocks of the debate. It will take a few weeks to determine if Biden’s slippage in the polls is a trend and not a blip,” he wrote. “But given their reputation inside the party and connections to Future Forward, OpenLabs is a firm that Democratic campaigns take seriously.”

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“In the tipping-point state of Pennsylvania, Biden now trails by 7 points, compared to 5 points before the debate,” Hamby wrote. “He has also dropped in Michigan, where he now trails Trump by 7. OpenLabs also found that he is now losing by roughly 10 points in Georgia and Arizona, and by almost 9 points in Nevada.”

As bad as that is for Biden, it gets worse.

“Biden is now only winning by a fraction of a point in Virginia, Maine, Minnesota, and New Mexico — and he’s now only winning Colorado by around 2 points,” Hamby wrote.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has reportedly informed the Biden campaign that the president’s poor debate performance last Thursday may have cost him the electoral votes of her state. She also denied rumors that she was considering running as a replacement on the 2024 Democratic ticket.

A source told Politico that Whitmer called Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon on Friday night with an “unambiguous SOS” and said Biden could no longer win her state. She has since publicly denied that report.

“Anyone who claims I would say that we can’t win Michigan is full of s–t. Let’s go,” Whitmer’s campaign account on X snapped back Monday afternoon.

A report published this week claimed that President Joe Biden never started prepping for his debate last week with former President Donald Trump before 11 a.m. and was always “given time for an afternoon nap each day.”

“In the weeks and months before President Biden’s politically devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta, several current and former officials and others who encountered him behind closed doors noticed that he increasingly appeared confused or listless, or would lose the thread of conversations,” The New York Times reported on Tuesday.

The report said there were incidents where Biden misspoke about military aid to Ukraine, froze up at a Juneteenth event, appeared confused at a D-Day anniversary event in France, and even forgot the name of his own secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas.

The 81-year-old commander-in-chief’s age also played a factor. The Times reported that the White House cut Biden’s debate prep short by a couple of days before the Thursday event “so he could rest” after a couple of European trips.

CNN’s Carl Bernstein told Anderson Cooper Monday night that anonymous sources close to Biden had allegedly witnessed “15 or 20 occasions in the last year and a half” similar to what the country saw at last week’s presidential debate, when he appeared vacant, unable to enunciate his words, and confused.

“These are people, several of them who are very close to President Biden who loved him, have supported him and among them are some people who would raise a lot of money for him. And they are adamant that what we saw the other night, the Joe Biden we saw, is not a one-off, that there have been 15, 20 occasions in the last year and a half when the president has appeared somewhat as he did in that horror show that we witnessed,” he said.

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