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noviembre 15, 2023
President Biden is trailing former President Donald Trump within the 2024 election race, in line with a brand new ballot — which additionally reveals rising issues amongst voters concerning the Democratic incumbent’s skills.
Trump, 77, leads Biden, 80, 44% to 42% in a head-to-head election match-up, the Yahoo News/YouGov poll launched Wednesday reveals.
The survey additionally discovered that 54% say Biden, who turns 81 subsequent week, now not has “the competence to hold out the job of president,” up from 49% in February.
Underneath a 3rd of respondents, 31%, imagine the president continues to be competent, the survey reveals, a four-percentage level lower from February.
Issues over Biden’s “well being and psychological acuity” have additionally risen, with 64% saying they’re considerably or very involved concerning the matter. In June 2020, earlier than Biden took workplace, fewer than half of People (48%) mentioned they’d the identical stage of fear concerning the candidate’s well being and psychological state.
Whereas Trump, the 2024 Republican major front-runner, is simply three-and-half years Biden’s junior, 38% say he’s “match to be president” whereas simply 24% say the identical of Biden.
When voters have been requested how large a priority Biden’s age is, 55% responded that it was a big downside, and a whopping 80% mentioned it was not less than a small downside.
People are additionally way more conscious of the president’s verbal and bodily slips than his legislative accomplishments, the ballot discovered.
Extra voters have heard “loads” about Biden “bodily stumbling at public occasions” (47%); making “verbal gaffes” (41%) and “falling asleep at public occasions” (33%) than they’ve about Congress passing the Infrastructure Funding and Jobs Act (20%) or Medicare being allowed to barter decrease prescription drug costs underneath the so-called Inflation Discount Act (23%).
The ballot comes the identical week David Axelrod, one among former President Barack Obama’s high advisers, warned that Biden’s “age subject” was constant in polling and the “one factor” his marketing campaign wouldn’t have the ability to reverse.
“The one quantity within the polling that was regarding, and within the CNN ballot that adopted after The New York Instances ballot, needed to do with age, and that’s one factor you possibly can’t reverse irrespective of how efficient Joe Biden is behind the scenes. In entrance of the digital camera, what he’s projecting is inflicting folks issues, and that’s worrisome,” Axelrod mentioned throughout an look on CNN Sunday.
Axelrod was referencing a shocking New York Instances/Siena School ballot launched final week that confirmed 71% of voters have been frightened about Biden’s age, whereas solely 39% of voters thought Trump was too outdated for the job.
The ballot additionally had Biden shedding 5 key battleground states to Trump in a 2024 election matchup.
