Poll suggest majority of Democrats want Biden, 80, to step aside for someone ... trends now
Democrats think that one term should be the end of Joe Biden's tenure as president as yet another poll shows Americans think he's too old and express growing concerns over his health.
Support for Biden, 80, is swiftly declining as the 2024 presidential campaign season gets underway, a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll reveals.
Only 37 percent of Democrats say they want Biden to seek a second term – even though the president has hinted he has every intention to launch a reelection bid. This is a sharp decline from the 52 percent who said the same weeks before the 2022 midterms.
Taking all voting-age Americans into consideration, only 22 percent say that Biden should run again, down 7 percent from the same question asked in October 2022.
Democratic voters who spoke with AP said they are concerned about Biden's age and increasingly prevalent gaffes and potential health concerns.
Meanwhile, an ABC News/Washington Post poll released earlier this month also found that 62 percent of Americans think Biden has accomplished 'little or nothing' or at least 'not very much' during his presidency so far.
Democrats are growing increasingly against a reelection from President Joe Biden, noting his age, health, coughing, gait and gaffes as reasons why someone younger should seek office
Only 37% of Democrats say they want to see Biden run for a second term in a new AP-NORC poll released Monday, which is a sharp 15% decline from the same poll taken just weeks before the 2022 midterms
Only 36 percent say Biden has accomplished a 'great deal' in his more than two years in office.
Follow-up interviews with AP-NORC poll respondents show that many think Biden, who is the oldest U.S. president ever, feel his age and declining health could be a liability.
Many who said they want a younger president and focused-in on Biden's coughing, his gait and frequent gaffes.
'I, honestly, think that he would be too old,' said Democrat voter Sarah Overman, 37, of Raleigh, North Carolina. 'We could use someone younger in the office.'
Thirty-five-year-old Michigan man Ross Truckey, who didn't vote for Donald Trump or Biden in 2020, said of the president: 'His age and possibly his mental acuity is not where I would want the leader of the country to be.
'He, at times, appears to be an old man who is past his prime. Sometimes I feel a little bit of pity for the guy being pushed out in front of crowds.'
Declining support for Biden is concentrated among younger voters.
Only 23 percent of Democrats under the age of 45 say that Biden should run for a second term, a massive drop-off from the same poll in October, which showed 45 percent of this demographic wanting a second term from the president.
Forty-nine percent of those age 45 and older say they want Biden's reelection, which is still a decline of 9 percent from the same poll taken just weeks before the 2022 midterms.
Former President Trump would beat Biden by 3 points in a hypothetical head-to-head election, according to results of the ABC/Post poll released Sunday.
Most Americans say they don't want a rematch of 2020.
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll released Sunday shows that Americans are not looking forward to the prospects of a 2020 rematch between Biden (right) and his predecessor Donald Trump (left)
The poll shows that the favorability has flipped from September, and Trump would now win by 3 percentage points in a hypothetical head-to-head election against Biden
Forty-eight percent of registered voters said in the poll taken at the end of January and into the beginning of February that they would vote for
