WATCH: CNN Analyst Gives Joe Biden Devastating News: ‘This Is Not Insignificant’

President Joe Biden is sleepwalking into Election Day if he doesn’t take action to change perceptions about his domestic stewardship, according to CNN.

On Monday the network’s political director David Chalien broke down numbers from a new poll showing the Democratic incumbent deeply underwater among Americans asked about the state of the economy. Just 34% had good things to say about Biden’s performance, “significantly lower than his overall job approval,” Chalien said.

“When you ask ‘How is the economy going today? What’s your rating of it?’ 30% of Americans say it’s good, 70% of Americans say it’s poor,” he continued.

“Economy is overwhelmingly the most important issue for voters. This is not insignificant.”

For weeks mainstream media outlets have reported on the uproar on college campuses over the Israel war and ignored the persistent, ringing alarm that voters are sounding about their struggles at the gas station and grocery store. If abortion, international strife, or other less salient issues take Biden’s focus away from righting the economy, it will be at his peril, Chalien added.

“While there are a ton of other issues to discuss, and even other issues that the president performs worse on – the Israel-Hamas war, immigration – the economy is still front and center for people, so this is something you’re gonna hear Biden talk about day in and day out,” he said.

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Biden has oscillated between remarking on the economy and attacking former President Donald Trump at his recent campaign stops. During a multi-state swing earlier this month, he zeroed in on Trump’s “border bloodbath” comment. Weeks later, the Democrat spent several days in Pennsylvania where he spoke about reforms to the tax code that he said would benefit middle-class Americans.

The passage of time is also working against the 80-year-old incumbent. 55% of poll respondents said they view Trump’s four years as a success for the country while 44% still see them as a failure. Those figures mirror the opposite from where Trump stood shortly after leaving office.

Elsewhere, 61% of voters report Biden’s term as a failure while 39% say it has been a success. Just 72% of Democrats believe Biden’s strategy is paying off.

Dueling polls continue to raise questions about whether the race for the presidency is neck-and-neck or being run away with by Trump. The former president sits at 41.8% to Biden’s 40.7% in an amalgam of national polls, according to FiveThirtyEight, while another average of recent polls by RealClearPolling puts Trump above by 5.3%. That latter result has carried over in swing states where Trump led Biden 47% to 43% among voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Caroline Bye, the pollster who produced the swing state results, said back in October that President Biden was not receiving credit for parts of the economy that are positive, including low unemployment.

“Right now, Biden is not getting any credit for work he’s done on the economy,” she said. “Almost twice as many voters in the swing states are saying that Bidenomics is bad for the economy, as opposed to good for the economy, which is a really startling fact if you’re the Biden campaign.”