Seven out of ten Americans do not want the president of the United States, Joe Biden, to run for re-election, a poll indicated this Friday, according to which a third of those citizens believe he is too old.
The survey carried out jointly by the Center for Political Studies at Harvard University and The Harris Poll indicates that Biden is seen as a bad president by the 45 % of those who do not want him to continue in the White House after the presidential elections of 2024.
Biden, of 79 years, would also only receive a support of 30 % among Democrats in their own party’s primaries.
His predecessor, Republican Donald Trump, aged 76 garners similar discontent: a 61 % would not want to see him lead the country again after his mandate from 2017 to 2020.
A 33 % of those who do not support him believe he would divide the country and believe he was responsible for instigating the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, when a mob of his supporters stormed there while a joint session of the chambers was being held to ratify Biden’s victory in the previous November’s elections.
This poll was published on the same day that another stressed that, in the event that both back to office in 2024, there would be practically a tie at the polls.
According to that poll, in this case from the private university Emerson College, located in Boston, Biden would collect 44 % of the votes and Trump a 39 %, despite the fact that only a 40 % of respondents consider that the current president is doing a good job.
Biden does not rule out trying to revalidate his position: “I am not worried about the legislative elections (in November) or yes gene ran more partisan obstruction. I am sure that we will be able to solve it in the six years that I have left in the Presidency”, he said last 30 in April in the traditional White House correspondents’ dinner.
Biden beat Trump in the November 7 elections of 2020 with 306 electoral votes, compared to Trump’s 232, and was invested on 20 January 2021 at a ceremony in which Trump became the first outgoing president in not attending the investiture of his successor.