The majority of Democrats new investigation They said they support Biden withdrawing from the presidential race as questions swirl about his mental acuity and ability to serve another four years if re-elected.
of Washington Post, ABC News, Ipsos PollThe poll, released Thursday, found that 56% of Democrats think the president should step aside and “let someone else run” after his shaky performance in last month’s debates raised alarm bells among Democrats. Overall, 67% of Americans said Biden should withdraw from the race.
The incumbent Trump performed poorly in the debate with President Trump, lacking energy, stumbling over his words and hoarseness, leading to growing calls from within his own party for him to withdraw from the presidential race.
Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vermont) became the first sitting Democrat in the Senate to call on Biden to withdraw from the presidential race in an op-ed published in The Washington Post on Wednesday, joining several of his House colleagues who have urged the president to withdraw from the race.
“He needs to reconsider whether he is the best candidate for the position. In my view, he is not,” Welch wrote. “In the national interest, I urge President Biden to withdraw from the race.”
Recent polls have Trump and Biden neck and neck in the popular vote, with each receiving about 46% support among likely voters — numbers little changed from previous polls. Similar votes Filmed in April.
In last month’s debate, 46% of respondents said Trump was the winner, while Biden received just 7% of the vote, and about 45% said neither candidate won or there was a tie, according to the poll.
Asked whether the debates made voters “more or less favorable” about their party’s presumptive nominee, about half said Biden’s poor performance had negatively affected their view. About 22% said the same about Trump.
The survey found that only 7% said they viewed the current president “more favorably” after the forum, while about 27% said the same about the former president.
Still, most Americans say both candidates are too old to serve another term: About 85% of survey respondents said Biden is too old, while 60% said Trump is too old.
Nearly half of respondents said the former president should step aside and someone else should be put at the top of the Republican field in November, including 88% of Democrats and 11% of Republicans.
Biden and his supporters have resisted growing calls for him to drop out of the race against Trump, with the president saying in an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos last week, “If the Almighty came down and said, ‘Joe, get out of the race,’ I would get out of the race. The Almighty is not going to come down.”
The Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos poll was conducted July 5-9 among 2,431 people and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points for the full sample. The figure included 825 registered Democrats, and has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
