It’s the same old story.
A new poll shows that an overwhelming majority of voters believe President Biden is too old to serve a second term. The latest data outlines growing concerns about the aging of the commander-in-chief.
A whopping 86% of American adults believe that at 81 years old, Biden is too old to serve another term. ABC News/Ipsos poll It was released Sunday in the wake of a scathing special counsel report that found the president’s apparent memory problems.
Among these voters, 59% said both Biden and his potential rival, former President Donald Trump, are too old, according to the poll; , only 27% felt Trump was too old.
Another 3% say Trump, at 77, is too old to serve as commander in chief again, bringing the total to 62% who say the same about the 45th president.
Broken down along partisan lines, 73% of Democrats feel Biden is too old, compared to just 35% of Republicans who think the same about Trump.
Among independents, 91% feel Biden is too old, and 71% think the same about Trump.
Concerns about Biden’s age were further fueled last week by special counsel Robert Hur’s report, which found that Biden “intentionally retained and disclosed classified material.”
But Mr. Xu also declined to press charges, citing Mr. Biden’s cooperation, precedent, and the possibility that a jury might see him as a “well-meaning old man with a poor memory.”
In his 388-page report, Ho documented multiple instances in which Biden allegedly disappeared during a five-hour meeting with a former Maryland attorney appointed by President Trump.
The report states that Biden “doesn’t remember when he was vice president, and on the first day of the interview at the end of his term, he forgot (“If it was 2013, when did you quit as vice president? ”), and claimed to have forgotten about it on the second day. A look at the interview at the beginning of his term.
Biden and his allies adamantly refuted that characterization.
After the report broke, Mr. Biden furiously told reporters: “I’m a well-meaning, older man who knows what he’s doing.”
Numerous polls have pointed to voter concerns about Biden’s age. He is already the oldest US president in history.
If re-elected, he will be 86 years old by the end of his second term.
If Mr. Trump, 77, wins in November and serves out his entire term, he will become the oldest president in history, surpassing Mr. Biden by a narrow margin by several months.
“Joe is 81 years old, that’s true, but he’s 81 years old and does more in an hour than most people do in a day,” First Lady Jill Biden recently wrote to supporters. stated in the message. “His age with experience and expertise is an incredible asset and he is proving that every day.”
Both Trump and Biden’s campaigns took turns during the campaign to highlight the other’s gaffes and mental lapses, attempting to portray the other as suffering from cognitive decline.
According to the poll, when asked whether Biden should have been indicted over the classified documents trial, 38% said he should have been indicted, 34% disagreed, and 28% were undecided.
President Trump was slapped with 40 charges by Special Counsel Jack Smith related to the alleged retention of classified documents, but Ho said the key difference was that Biden was more cooperative and did not try to obstruct the investigation. He emphasized that this is true.
When asked who is better at overseeing classified documents, 41% of respondents said neither, compared to 33% for Biden and 23% for Trump.
The survey was conducted among 528 adults between February 9 and 10, and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
