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86% of Americans see Biden too old to run again for President: Poll

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  • Source: Politico
  • 12 Feb 2024 13:04
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59% of the poll participants saw that both Biden and 77-year-old former President Donald Trump are too old to run again for the presidency. 

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  • President Joe Biden sits in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, in Washington. (AP)
    President Joe Biden sits in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, in Washington. (AP)

A recently released ABC News/Ipsos poll found that 86% of Americans think that 81-year-old current US President Joe Biden is too old to serve another term in the White House, which comes days after special counsel Robert Hur described Biden as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”.

According to the poll, 59% of the participants saw both Biden and 77-year-old former President Donald Trump as too old to run again for the presidency. 

27% said only Biden is too old and 3% found only Trump to be so, as special counsel Hur’s report of an assessment of Biden's mental acuity killed chances even more, as Hur's report, which investigated the mishandling of classified documents by Biden last year, included comments on Biden's mental acuity.

Read next: 44% believe Trump more capable than Biden of handling war on Gaza: WSJ

Hur concluded that there was insufficient evidence to charge Biden of mishandling classified documents during his time as vice president when Barack Obama was president, but stated that his memory “appeared to have significant limitations” and that “he did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died” in 2015.

This is a Banana Republic.

First 3 paragraphs of Robert Hur's report on Joe Biden "willfully retaining" classified documents, including classified military and foreign policy documents and national security sources and methods. pic.twitter.com/Sr91Pmx96K

— CannCon (@CannConActual) February 8, 2024

The report claimed that Biden couldn't even recall when he was Vice President, or the details of a debate about deploying additional troops to Afghanistan.

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In response, the Director of the MAGA Inc. organization Alex Pfeiffer expressed Thursday that “If you’re too senile to stand trial, then you’re too senile to be president. Joe Biden is unfit to lead this nation."

'So deep, your boots will get stuck'

An ABC News/Washington Post poll from September also demonstrates increased concerns from 74% of participants regarding both Trump and Biden's ages. 

Biden campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu described the notion that Biden isn’t capable of carrying his duties “a bucket of BS that’s so deep, your boots will get stuck in it.”

During an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Landrieu said, “Based on the law and the facts, which is what lawyers and special counsels are supposed to look on, the conclusion was that the president had engaged in no wrongdoing, period, end of story”. 

Even Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tried to undermine the report's credibility during an interview on Meet the Press as well, saying, “The most difficult part about a meeting with President Biden is preparing for it, because he is sharp, intensely probing and detail-oriented and focused”.

Read more: Biden's approval rating dips to 38% amid border spats

The results will probably limit Biden's capacity to criticize Trump—Biden's likely rival in the presidential race in November—vehemently in light of the indictment accusing the former president of unlawfully retaining sensitive documents at his Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago.

As of now, Biden will be running against big names like Trump and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley. Trump leads all rivals in a prospective field of 12 Republican candidates, according to opinion polls.

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