The majority of Democratic voters no longer support President Joe Biden, and party elders agree that he is too old to run for reelection.
The AP-NORC poll asked: “Who should lead the Democratic Party?” Just 12 percent said it ought to be Biden.
In a recent AP-NORC poll, the three candidates with the fewest votes (House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies (D-NY), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)) all tied at 5%)
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Across the country, polls were taken to determine who was most well-liked by voters. Surprisingly, no one candidate gained a clear majority; in fact, the two candidates who received the most votes were the embattled transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, and the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer (D-NY). The top two responses were “other response” (21%) and “no answer” (37%), indicating that no single candidate has won the majority vote in the United States.
According to a recent poll, American discontent with Republican leadership and policy approaches is growing. For the Republican Party, this level of dissatisfaction suggests an increasingly unimpressed electorate and an uncertain future.
Recent polling has shown that there is a schism within the Republican Party over who should take the helm. In contrast to the 20% who voted for Donald Trump, the 22% who voted for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis were nearly double the 8% who did not vote or did not provide an answer.
“Republicans and Democrats alike are expressing concerns about the direction of the parties. Democrats are more optimistic than pessimistic about the future of their party (44% vs 26%), while Republicans are about equally optimistic (38%) and pessimistic (36%) about where their party is headed,” the pollsters said.
The survey’s results showed that while neither party could claim widespread support, Republicans were particularly unpopular.
“Only 22% of Republicans are very or extremely confident that their party’s leadership represents their values,” the pollsters noted. “Fifty-five percent are somewhat confident and 21% are not confident. In contrast, 42% of Democrats are very or extremely confident that the Democratic leadership represents their values, 36% are somewhat confident, and 20% have little or no confidence.”
Only 19% of voters in the United States have a favorable opinion of their elected representatives in Congress. Republicans and Democrats alike agree that there needs to be change because 79 percent of adults are unhappy with the current situation.
“The public, regardless of party identification, has little optimism about politics in the United States these days,” the pollsters wrote. “Sixty-three percent are pessimistic about the state of politics, 15% are optimistic, and 21% are neither optimistic nor pessimistic.”
They say it’s too risky for Joe Biden to run for president at his age, and the Democratic Party leadership seems to agree.
“Nobody wants to be the one to do something that would undermine the chances of a Democratic victory in 2024,” Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) told Politico for a story published Thursday. “Yet in quiet rooms, the conversation is just the opposite — we could be at a higher risk if this path is cleared.”
Not many people would go on the record, however. Writer Jonathan Martin noted tellingly: “There was the senator who said few Democrats in the chamber want Biden to run again but that the party had to devise ‘an alignment of interest’ with the president to get him off the ‘narcotic’ of the office; there was the governor who mused about just how little campaigning Biden would be able to do; and there was the House member who, after saying that, of course, Democrats should renominate the president told me to turn off my phone and then demanded to know who else was out there and said Harris wasn’t an option.”
There is now a significant gulf between how Joe Biden is viewed by the Democratic Party and how he was viewed in the past. Recent polling shows that only 37% of Democrats want him to run again in 2024, down from a majority just a few months ago.
“While Biden has trumpeted his legislative victories and ability to govern, the poll suggests relatively few U.S. adults give him high marks on either. Follow-up interviews with poll respondents suggest that many believe the 80-year-old’s age is a liability, with people focused on his coughing, his gait, his gaffes, and the possibility that the world’s most stressful job would be better suited for someone younger,” the Associated Press reported.
“I, honestly, think that he would be too old,” said Sarah Overman, a Democrat in Raleigh, North Carolina. “We could use someone younger in the office.”
