62 percent of Biden voters want to replace both candidates on the ballot: Poll

About six in 10 voters who support President Biden say they would replace both the incumbent and his rival, former President Trump, if possible in the 2024 polls, according to a poll released Wednesday.

a pew research report According to the survey, 62 percent of Biden supporters said they would swap the two candidates at the top, compared to just 35 percent of Trump supporters who said the same.

Meanwhile, 27 percent of Trump supporters and only 4 percent of Biden supporters said they would keep both candidates. About one-third of each candidate’s supporters say they would keep only their candidate and replace the other candidate.

Although Biden and Trump have secured the delegates needed to become the presidential nominees of both parties in the fall, the Pew statistics are yet another indication of voter dissatisfaction with the idea of ​​a 2024 rematch between Biden and Trump. This is one sign. There are also concerns that Biden continues to receive protest votes in the party’s primaries from Democrats upset by his administration’s response to the Israeli war in Gaza, as well as growing support for the party among young people. is also in the background.

In both parties, younger voters are more likely than older voters to say they would like to replace both candidates if possible, compared to 73% of Biden supporters aged 18 to 49 and 38% of Trump supporters in the same range. .

Additionally, fewer voters say “it really matters who wins” the 2024 presidential election than voters who said the same at this point in the 2020 presidential election cycle. At the time, 80% of Trump supporters and 77% of Biden supporters said the election really mattered, but those numbers have now fallen to 70% each.

The report is based on a survey of 8,709 respondents conducted April 8-14 by the Pew Research American Trends Panel, and results are subject to a margin of error of plus or minus 1.5 percentage points. was there.