WASHINGTON (apro).- 81% of potential voters in the United States are calling for President Joe Biden to withdraw his candidacy for the Democratic Party so that another candidate can face Republican Donald Trump, according to a new poll.
Among American voters who say they would vote for Biden in the November 5 election, 81% say he is too old for a second four-year presidential term; 54% think he should step aside and only 44% want him to stay.
The survey, conducted by ABC News in collaboration with The Washington Post and Ipsos polling, also found that 47% of voters currently support Trump and 46% support Biden.
Including potential voters for Democrats, Republicans and so-called independents, the poll found that 67% of them want Biden to drop his re-election campaign.
Despite the small margin of advantage that the poll recorded between Trump and Biden regarding the presidential elections, in another section of the opinion collection of voters, 85% of them consider that the current president is too old for a second term.
In that same box, the survey that was released on the morning of Thursday, July 9, records that 60% of potential voters also think that Trump, at almost 78 years old, is also too old to return to the Executive Branch.
Forty-four percent believe that Trump is currently mentally capable of leading the country’s destiny, compared to 14% who believe the same of Biden. Despite this view, 39% hold the president in higher esteem compared to 22% who favor the former president.
Among registered Democrats and independents, 62% want Biden to give someone from his party a chance to face Trump on Tuesday, Nov. 5, according to the ABC News/Washington Post/Ipso poll.
The new poll data is consistent with a growing view among Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill calling for Biden to allow someone else to represent them in the presidential election to prevent Trump from defeating them.
Biden is clinging to his candidacy, which was weakened by his poor performance in the presidential debate two weeks ago, in which he could not avoid the ravages of his age (81 years old) that made him appear incoherent and slow to counter Trump.
Time is on Biden’s side and against Democrats who want to change candidates, considering that next week in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Trump will be officially anointed as the Republican Party’s candidate at the National Convention.
On Thursday, July 18, Trump will officially begin his campaign as the Republican presidential duo, whoever he chooses as his vice presidential candidate.
The Democratic National Convention will be held from August 19 to 22 in Chicago, Illinois, and if Biden goes there as a candidate and then fails to recover from Trump in the second presidential debate on September 10, everything could be over for him.
This afternoon at the White House, Biden will hold a press conference under the pretext of the closing of the annual meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) held in Washington, DC, in which he seeks to demonstrate that he is not mentally finished.
The survey, which was conducted online and in English and Spanish among potential American voters, found that 49% would currently vote for Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential candidate and 46% for Trump.
The poll surveyed 4,431 registered American adults who voted as Democrats, Republicans and independents and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2%.
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2024-07-14 17:39:51