Almost three-quarters of college-aged Democratic voters feel that President Joe Biden should not seek re-election in 2024.
A poll conducted by NBC/Generation Lab among incoming second-year students revealed more bad news for the president, whose fortunes had modestly improved in recent weeks due to legislative victories and decreased gas costs.
However, it remains unclear whether the 79-year-old is the strongest candidate in two years.
The survey of 1077 students revealed that 73% of Democrats said he should not run again, while only 27% think he should be on the ticket again.
He performs worse than former President Trump. 57% of second-year college Republican voters believe he should run, compared to 43% who believe he should remain out of the race. The should-he/should-he discussion began almost immediately after Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
If he runs again and succeeds, he will be sworn in at the age of 82, which has led to persistent rumors that he may stand aside in favor of a younger generation of Democratic leaders.
As his government limped through crisis after crisis, from the messy retreat from Afghanistan to record-high gas prices this past summer, this idea gained strength.
The outcome was a rising belief that the midterm elections in November would be a rout.
However, the president has had a pleasant few weeks, signing three new measures into law. They include the Inflation Reduction Act, a climate, health, and tax bill that he signed at the White House on Tuesday and that, according to its advocates, will benefit Democrats in the midterm elections. The Democratic National Committee announced the commencement of a seven-figure advertising campaign on Friday.
Joe Biden and the Democrats took on Big Pharma and Big Oil, resulting in a victory for the American people at the expense of powerful special interests. According to one narrator, their approach reduces the cost of prescription pharmaceuticals and health care for American families.
The raid on the home of former President Donald Trump by the Federal Bureau of Investigation has hurt the agency’s credibility with Republican and independent voters, and a majority agree that it has become ‘Biden’s Gestapo’
The search of Mar-a-Lago has encouraged Trump loyalists and sparked an influx of contributions to the former president’s political organizations.
And close allies, including as Steve Bannon, have used public forums to compare the FBI to Hitler’s Gestapo and East Germany’s deadly Stasi.
Rasmussen Reports questioned 1,000 potential voters in a new study if they agreed with Trump loyalist Roger Stone, who last year claimed that the FBI had become President Joe Biden’s “personal Gestapo.”