While the president continues to isolate himself for COVID-19, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has tied his boss President Joe Biden in a recent New Hampshire poll.
In a recent University of New Hampshire poll, which surveyed likely Democratic voters on potential 2024 candidates, Buttigieg received 17% of the vote while Biden received 16%.
Kamala Harris, the vice president, is far behind at 6%.
Advancement figure Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who resides in Massachusetts, a nearby state with a big media market, is at 10%.
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, who just made a prominent trip to Washington, D.C. and survived a recall, receives the same sum.
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who ran in 2016 and 2020, is at 8%.
According to a recent poll, only 20% of New Hampshire residents and 31% of Democrats want 79-year-old Joe Biden to run for office again. This is a decrease from 74% of Democrats one year ago.
The survey comes after national polls that revealed Democratic dissatisfaction with Biden, whose overall public support numbers have been stuck in the low 40s for months.
With a surge of activity that includes Senate passage on a bill to give billions to semiconductor firms on Tuesday, he is aiming to finally demonstrate his legislative might.
Buttigieg, 40, sparred with Biden sometimes while he was running for president in 2020.
He then joined his government and quickly rose to become one of its top communicators.
In especially following the failure of the Build Back Better plan, his position has allowed him to consistently promote the bipartisan infrastructure package, which the administration has promoted as one of its signature accomplishments.
Because he and his husband Chasten are raising adopted twins, Buttigieg recently shifted his official address to Michigan so they could be nearer to Chasten’s parents.
The former governor of Indiana, who is now one of the most prominent homosexual leaders in the country, repeatedly referred to his roots in the Midwest during his 2020 campaign.
A New York Times/Sienna College poll conducted a few weeks prior to the poll in the crucial early voting state revealed that two-thirds of Democrats favoured a candidate other than Biden to be the party’s nominee.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive firebrand who ran against Biden in 2020 and was thought to be a potential running mate, receives 5% of the vote against Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s 9%.
The party’s nominee for 2016, Hillary Clinton, receives 3% of the vote.
Stacey Abrams, a senatorial candidate from Georgia, receives 3%, while Cory Booker, a senator from New Jersey, receives 2%.
78% of respondents overall, including 88% of Republicans and 75% of Democrats, indicated they are very or somewhat concerned about Biden’s age.