Monday 4 July 2022 10:18 AM More than 70 PER CENT of Americans do not want Biden, 79, to stand for ... trends now
More than 70 percent of Americans do not want Joe Biden to stand for re-election in 2024, according to yet another dire poll for the president.
Biden's approval rating also dropped to a low of 38 percent at a time when the president is facing a potentially damaging verdict from voters in the upcoming midterm elections in November.
Biden, 79, would find it almost impossible to implement his legislative agenda if Republicans take control of Congress in the elections.
The Harvard CAPS/Harris poll found that a massive 71 percent of Americans do not believe Biden should not run for a second term amid high inflation rates and soaring gas prices.
For those who believe Biden should not stand for re-election, 30 percent said it was because he was too old - he will be 81 at the 2024 election - while 45 percent said he was 'a bad president'.
Most of those polled said that they had concerns about whether Biden was mentally fit to serve, with 60 percent saying they had doubts about his mental fitness.
More than 70 percent of Americans do not want Joe Biden to stand for re-election in 2024, according to yet another dire poll for the president
Biden, 79, would find it almost impossible to implement his legislative agenda if Republicans take control of Congress in the elections
The poll also found that whilst Biden was the favorite amongst Democrat voters in a Democratic presidential primary, only 30 percent would vote for him.
'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,' Mark Penn, the co-director of the Harvard CAPS–Harris Poll survey, told The Hill.
'Only 30 percent of Democrats would even vote for him in a Democratic presidential primary,' Penn added.
Meanwhile, 61 percent of those polled said that they think former President Donald Trump should not run for reelection.
The poll found that 36 percent said Trump should not run because he is erratic, 33 percent said he would divide America and 30 per cent said he was responsible for the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.
A majority of those polled meanwhile said they would consider a moderate independent presidential candidate in 2024, with 60 percent saying that they