A transparent majority of Democrats want no a part of President Biden’s potential 2024 re-election bid — while more Americans are asking the 80-year-old, “What have you ever done for me over the past two years?”, in accordance with a pair of polls released on Monday.
Only 37% of Democrats say they support the president running for a second term, down from 52% within the weeks after the Nov. 8 midterm elections, an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll shows.
Meanwhile, 62% of Democrats want another person to be the party’s standard-bearer in 2024.
Overall, a whopping 78% of Americans want Biden to be a one-and-done president, in comparison with 22% who say he should run for a second term.
Biden, 80, who has not officially announced a re-election bid but is predicted to achieve this in the approaching days, touted laws on infrastructure, gun control and prescription drug prices in remarks on the Democratic Party’s national winter meeting in Philadelphia last week — a possible preview of his State of the Union address Tuesday.
However the achievements aren’t resonating with voters.
One other poll released Monday shows that 62% of Americans consider Biden has completed “not very much” or “little or nothing” in his first two years within the White House.
Amongst independents, that percentage rises to 66%, the Washington Post-ABC News survey says.
Just 36% of respondents said that Biden has achieved a “great deal” or “good amount.”
An amazing 93% of Republicans say Biden has completed “not much” or “little or nothing,” while 77% of Democrats say he has done a ”great deal” or “good amount.”
Contrary to Biden’s talking points, 60% of Americans consider he has neither created more good jobs nor improved roads and bridges of their communities.
Barely fewer — 56% — say he has not made electric vehicles cheaper and 47% say he has not lowered prescription drug costs.
The Washington Post poll was taken before the January jobs report was released last Friday, showing that employers added 517,000 jobs and that the national unemployment rate fell to three.4%, the bottom level since May 1969.
Those that responded to the AP poll said they see the president’s age as a liability and are looking for a recent generation of leaders.
“I, truthfully, think that he can be too old,” Democrat Sarah Overman, 37, of Raleigh, NC, told the AP. “We could use someone younger within the office.”
Ross Truckey, a lawyer in Michigan, said he didn’t vote for either Biden or former President Donald Trump in 2020 but seems like Biden is the newest in a line of “subpar” presidents.
“His age and possibly his mental acuity isn’t where I might want the leader of the country to be,” said Truckey, 35. “He, at times, appears to be an old man who’s past his prime. Sometimes I feel a bit of little bit of pity for the guy being pushed out in front of crowds.”
The majorities against Biden running again are highest amongst voters between the ages of 18-29 (85%) and people between 30-34 (83%).
Greater than three-quarters (76%) of voters 60 and older say Biden shouldn’t seek a second term, in comparison with 23% who do.
Of those between 45-59, 69% don’t want one other Biden presidential run, while 31% support it.
Democrat Linda Lockwood, a retiree from Kansas City, Kan., said Biden’s age doesn’t worry her.
“He appears to be in pretty good condition in my view and that’s coming from a 76-year-old woman,” Lockwood said. “You could be a bit of more careful taking place the steps as you grow old, but in case your brain continues to be working, that’s the necessary part.”
Biden, already the oldest president in US history, can be 86 at the top of a full second term.
In keeping with the AP poll, Americans have little trust in Biden’s abilities, with 51% saying they’ve “hardly any” confidence in his ability to work with Republicans in Congress and have “hardly any” confidence in him having the ability to “effectively manage government spending.”
The poll shows 43% have “hardly any” confidence in Biden’s ability to handle a crisis, effectively manage the military and reduce the quantity of presidency corruption.
