For months before the first debate, the nation’s voters repeatedly expressed doubts over whether President Biden had the cognitive health enough to serve.
Today, those doubts have grown even more: now at nearly three-quarters of the electorate, and now including many within his own party.
And today, after the debate with former President Trump, an increased number of voters, including many Democrats, don’t think Mr. Biden should be running for president at all. Nearly half his party doesn’t think he should now be the nominee.
(Trump, for his part, does better, but still only gets half the electorate thinking he has the cognitive health to serve.)
The move came across the partisan board, but it includes a double-digit movement among Democrats, and movement among independents.
Given that, today nearly three in four voters also don’t think Mr. Biden should be running for president in the first place. That’s a higher-percentage sentiment than in February, when almost two-thirds said he should not run.
Most voters who say he shouldn’t run say it’s both about his […]
I am only 77 years old, and that age has given me a lot of time to read a LOT of books, and study a lot of courses both online and off; and my age has given me a much better perspective on life and the role of government. I know here in my home town that the Mayor and City Councel have no concern for the citizens whom they represent. For instance, they decided to put in new concrete sidewalks, and while doing that, they also planted HUGE trees; one of which blocks the sun from my precious garden which I need to grow the crops I need to survive because I could never afford to live on storebought organic vegetables which are the main source of my diet, but now I cannot grow 1/2 as much as I used to be able to because of their decision to plant huge trees to block the sun from my gardens. Governments do not care about citizens. We must choose which is the worst and vote against that person. That means on a presidential level that we must choose between a criminal who should be in jail (Trump) and anyone else, no matter how old they are. I do not hold Joe’s age against him: I think it gives him MORE credability.
When I read this I this, I think, so we had this Democratic leadership who cooked up a strategy whereby they would shield the President from all competitors, all primaries, and debates. The only other option permitted was a toothless “non-committed” delegate option. Now, after all the primaries are finished, and the voters have voted, the Democratic leadership sets up a debate where the opponent agreed to all your conditions and your strategy is exposed. Your President is now vulnerable, because you couldn’t hide him anymore. What does Democratic leadership want to do? Why dump the candidate, and pick a new one at the convention all the while ignoring the voter. Well my friends, hypocrisy doesn’t get any more blatant than this. The Democratic leadership doesn’t care about you. They don’t care about Democracy. What they care about is Power. They will tell you that it’s the Republicans who want to turn back the clock, while the Democrats will conduct the back room deals behind the voters back. Just like the 1950’s.
I’m troubled by just how instantly the entire news coverage shifted completely away from anything related to a candidate who instigated an insurrection to overthrow an election, to every article being totally focused on the presidents age.
If we were voting to change away from Joe Biden, I would choose Bernie Sanders who knows what you know, Stephan, and would be more sympathetic to fostering wellbeing