Just 30% of voters say Biden should run for reelection: poll

Voters have cited the president's age as a problem for the subsequent election.
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Almost 60% of voters say that President Biden mustn't run for reelection in 2024, with most citing his age as the rationale for his or her views, in response to a brand new survey. 

The Redfield & Wilton Methods ballot, executed for Newsweek and launched on Tuesday, discovered that 58% of voters don't want the 80-year-old commander-in-chief to hunt a second time period.

Solely 30% of eligible voters polled mentioned that Biden ought to run once more in 2024, and 42% mentioned the president’s superior age was probably the most important cause for his or her reply. 

Different causes voters cited for not wanting the octogenarian president to run for reelection included issues with the Biden administration’s financial insurance policies (16%), preferring different potential Democratic candidates (7%), and the outcomes of the midterm elections (1%). 

The ballot, performed on Dec. 5, surveyed 1,500 eligible voters, 12% of whom had been uncertain whether or not they thought Biden ought to launch a reelection marketing campaign. 

Biden, who's the oldest serving US president in historical past, has mentioned he expects to run for an additional 4 yr time period however has pushed a closing resolution again till early subsequent yr.

He could be 86 years outdated when he leaves workplace if he completes a full second time period. 

Biden has reportedly “vented to allies” about how a lot his age is mentioned within the media as he weighs a 2024 run, Politico reported Tuesday.

“You assume I don’t know the way f—ing outdated I'm?” an exasperated Biden ranted to one in every of his acquaintances earlier this yr, in response to the outlet.

However Biden himself has acknowledged that his age is a “respectable” situation.

“I feel it’s a respectable factor to be involved about anybody’s age, together with mine,” Biden mentioned throughout an October interview with MSNBC. “And I feel the easiest way to make the judgment is to look at me. Am I slowing up? Do I've the identical tempo?” 

In a hypothetical 2024 matchup with former President Donald Trump, the one declared presidential candidate for 2024, Biden beats the 76-year-old Trump 47% to 40%, in response to a USA In the present day/Suffolk College survey launched Tuesday.