A stunning 18% of voters want President JoeBiden to pursue reelection in 2024, marking the lowest figure to date as his approval rating continues to plunge, according to a new poll.
Roughly 64% of recipients surveyed said Biden should step aside in 2024, and, now, even a plurality of Democrats, 41%, say that the president should hand the baton off to someone new, eclipsing the 35% of Democrats who would like him to run again, a Yahoo News/YouGov poll found.The poll surveyed 1,672 adults between July 8-11 with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.
Despite the Democratic Party soul-searching over whether Biden should once again be the party's standard-bearer in 2024, the White House has insisted he plans to run for reelection. The last sitting president to decline a reelection bid was President Lyndon Johnson in 1968. "The president, as you know, has been asked that question many times, and he has answered it," press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in June."His answer has been pretty simple, which is 'Yes, he's running for reelection.'"
Meanwhile, a growing slew of big-name Democrats, such as California Gov. Gavin Newsom, appears to be taking steps to mount a bid for the presidency in 2024. Biden's prospects in 2024 have been frustrated by myriad crises, such as stubborn gas prices, unbridled inflation, soaring crime, and more, dogging his presidency ahead of the midterm elections.
Some Democrats, such as former President Barack Obama's chief political strategist David Axelrod, have voiced concerns about Biden's age. At 79, he is the oldest person to run the country and would be 82 years old heading into a hypothetical second inauguration.On the upside for Biden, voters surveyed in the Yahoo News/YouGov poll do not appear to have coalesced around an alternative.
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