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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

e; I wrote a better headline than the ABC editors decided to and excerpted a bit more

According to the poll, conducted using Ipsos' Knowledge Panel, 86% of Americans think Biden, 81, is too old to serve another term as president. That figure includes 59% of Americans who think both he and former President Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner, are too old and 27% who think only Biden is too old.

Sixty-two percent of Americans think Trump, who is 77, is too old to serve as president. There is a large difference in how partisans view their respective nominees -- 73% of Democrats think Biden is too old to serve but only 35% of Republicans think Trump is too old to serve. Ninety-one percent of independents think Biden is too old to serve, and 71% say the same about Trump.

Concerns about both candidates' ages have increased since September when an ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 74% of Americans thought Biden -- the oldest commander in chief in U.S. history -- was too old to serve another term as president, and 49% said the same about Trump.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240214133801/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/poll-americans-on-biden-age/story?id=107126589

Part that drew my eye,

The poll also comes days after the Senate failed to advance a bipartisan foreign aid bill with major new border provisions.

Americans find there is blame to go around on Congress' failure to pass legislation intended to decrease the number of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border -- with about the same number blaming the Republicans in Congress (53%), the Democrats (51%) and Biden (49%). Fewer, 39%, blame Trump.

More Americans trust that Trump would do a better job of handling immigration and the situation at the border than Biden -- 44%-26% -- according to the poll.

So that bipartisan border bill stunt was terrible policy, and it doesn't seem to have done anything for the Democratic party politically

Can we please stop trying to compromise with fascists now?

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[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

Biden didn't shut down the primary either. He's running in it. They could have just canceled it.

There's no democratic solution to this problem. Either we say just let voters choose (a primary, but no one of consequence wants to challenge so we don't really have a real choice) or Biden unilaterally decides to step down (not "the democratic spirit" but probably the right choice). No one has shut down democracy, it's just a shitty system where the individual choices of a powerful person means no one who could be a successor thinks it's an optimal choice to challenge him.

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is categorically false. Biden is not running in the primary - he didn’t even go through the basic steps to get on the ballot in New Hampshire. The DNC absolutely refused to put together any kind of debate to draw in contenders. Further, he’s working behind the scenes with the state DNC commissions to either remove primary challengers from the ballot (South Carolina), or not hold primary elections at all (Florida).

I agree, he should drop out of the race, because poll after poll shows Biden losing to Trump badly in 6 out of the 7 key battleground states, while “any generic Dem” maintains a lead. The people have already spoken - we don’t want Trump, but we want Biden even less. Now why in the hell would you force run a candidate under those conditions?!

The democratic process demands that voters get to choose their representatives, and Biden isn’t allowing that to happen. Instead he’s working behind the scenes to threaten both the current primary challengers, as well as those “of consequence”, with burying their political careers if they dare to challenge him.

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

he didn’t even go through the basic steps to get on the ballot in New Hampshire

Ok, so you're just clueless about politics. Thanks for letting us know.

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml -1 points 9 months ago

I know about the foolish SC play. I’m saying if he were participating in a primary in good faith, he would have gotten himself on the ballot.

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