If polling among Independent voters is any indication, Team Biden had better be very afraid. President Joe Biden, while riding in a statistical dead heat with former President Donald Trump, is not performing very well among Independents, a key voting bloc.

Despite the full-on media propaganda campaign against the former president and the list of politically motivated indictments against him, Trump has managed to present a formidable challenge to the incumbent – even among voters who are not firmly in the MAGA camp. New polls reveal that Biden’s failure to win over independents might be one of the reasons why he can’t pull ahead of the Republican contender.

A new poll conducted by the Center Square and released Wednesday shows that about 55 percent of the electorate disapproves of the president’s performance so far. But among independents, only 32 percent approve of the job Biden is doing, while 60 percent disapprove.

Even worse for Democrats, the poll also shows that if Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein remain in the race, a significat chunk of independents would veer away from supporting the president.

The most pressing issues for voters are jobs and the economy. The majority of respondents disapprove of Biden’s performance on these matters.

But this is not the only poll showing Biden losing independents.

An Economist/YouGov survey shows that, overall, about 56 percent of Americans disapprove of Biden’s performance. This includes 62 percent of independents.

Also noteworthy is that Vice President Kamala Harris does not fare much better. The same survey revealed that 56 percent of independents disapprove of her performance as well. The survey was taken from Mar. 16-19.

This places Team Biden in a tricky predicament. If they cannot win over voters who are not squarely in the Democrat camp, it is unlikely they will be able to defeat Trump even with the assistance of the legacy media and the laundry list of politically motivated indictments. At this point, Biden’s allies are already doing all they can to ensure he wins another term in office.

While it is clear that Biden needs to come up with a strategy to turn this trend around, what is not clear is what his team could possibly do to rectify this situation. On issues Americans care about the most, the Biden administration has fallen woefully short.

Inflation has slowed, but Americans are still paying exorbitant prices at the grocery store and other places where they buy their goods and services. Adding to the problem is the ongoing border crisis that Biden and company have refused to resolve. The nation’s education system continues to fall short and is letting American students down.

These are only a few of the issues plaguing the president, and it is not probable that he will be able to make progress on these matters anytime soon – even if he wanted to.

It’s still too early to predict how these numbers might impact Biden’s chances of winning reelection. But it is apparent that he has quite a bit of work to do if he is going to reverse this trend.