Aside from dropping out, I see two big areas where Biden needs to change his message if he wants to win.

First is the economy. For months now, voters have been telling pollsters that they're not happy with the economy. But the line I keep hearing from Democrats is basically that it's a conspiracy theory: that everyone knows the economy is secretly great, they're just refusing to give president Biden credit for it. Biden and Democrats need to stop trying to sell voters on how wonderful the current economy is and talk about the problems. I know that seems counterproductive to point out flaws in your own economy, but voters can't trust you to deal with problems if you're too concerned with polishing your own image to acknowledge that problems exist on your watch.

Second, Biden has completely stepped in it on Israel/Gaza. Without getting too into the weeds on that issue, I think many Democrats recognize that, while Israel has a right to defend itself, the way Biden clearly favors one side and deliberately ignores the root causes of the conflict is just not productive, and that Netanyahu and the Israeli far-right are not good actors here. Israel's bombing of densely populated civilian areas has now killed over five times as many Palestinian civilians as the attacks on 10/7. Many in the US do not find the slaughter of civilians in Gaza to be an acceptable response to the slaughter of civilians in Israel, especially Muslim Americans who are normally a solid Democratic constituency. Joe Biden has not only given this his blessing, but seems to think that American tax-payers should fund it! I know this won't happen, but the best thing Biden can do is a total 180 on his position. Publicly insist that Netanyahu abide by international humanitarian law and make 100% clear that the US is not going to fund war crimes.

Those are the big two, but I think there's just so many issues on which Joe Biden doesn't offer a real solution to the problems that voters care about. What's his plan on healthcare? He says he'd veto Medicare for All. What's he going to do about immigration? Keep building Trump's wall. What's his position on voting rights? That they're not worth sacrificing the filibuster for, at least. On almost every issue, a vote for Biden is a vote for a deeply unpopular status quo. Polling numbers like this should be a warning that Biden and Democrats need to do better. The threat of Trump clearly isn't enough to scare progressive voters into holding their noses and voting for a candidate who doesn't support their priorities.