According to a recent Harvard University poll, 71% of Americans oppose US Vice President Joe Biden’s bid for reelection.
Out of these, around one-third of respondents claimed that Biden is too old, while 45% claimed that he would make a bad president and nearly 25% claimed that it is time for a change.
Mark Penn, the co-director of the Harvard CAPS–Harris Poll survey, said “President Biden may want to run again but the voters say ‘no’ to the idea of a second term, panning the job he is doing as president. Only 30 percent of Democrats would even vote for him in a Democratic presidential primary.”
The survey, which comes as the United States braces for mid-term elections in November, shows that 61 per cent of people believe that former President Trump should not run for the White House in 2024.
36 per cent of them believe that Trump is erratic while 33 percent said he would divide the country. Not only this, 30 per cent of the pollsters said he was responsible for the US Capitol riot in 2021.
Should Biden and Trump square off against each other in 2024, a majority of those polled said they would consider a moderate independent candidate.
The survey indicated that Biden had a 38% overall approval rating, with respondents giving him low grades for handling inflation, the economy, creating jobs, and responding to COVID-19.
Given the historical precedent that a first-term president’s party generally suffers losses in the midterm elections, Democrats are already bracing for losses this November.
Democrats have used abortion as a campaign issue to galvanize people, even though it’s uncertain how it will stack up against issues like inflation and other issues.
