A new Yahoo News poll finds more trouble for President Joe Biden’s re-election bid, as not only do nearly seven in ten Americans believe he is too old to serve a second term, but even Democrats are far more likely to agree than disagree.
The Yahoo News/YouGov survey of 1,516 U.S. adults, conducted from Feb. 23 to 27, finds that 68 percent of Americans believe Biden is “too old for another term.” Only 18 percent of Americans disagree.
If he were re-elected, Biden would be 82 years old when sworn in.
More troubling for Biden, 48 percent of Democrats agreed, with only 34 percent disagreeing.
The poll also found 40 percent of Democrats were “somewhat” or “very” concerned “about Joe Biden’s health and mental acuity.”
Overall “68 percent of independents (and 65 percent of all registered voters) say they’re either somewhat or very concerned about Biden’s physical and mental condition,” Yahoo News reports.
Nearly half of Americans also felt former President Donald Trump is too old to serve again.
Forty-five percent said Trump, who would be 78 at the start of the next presidential term, is “too old,” with thirty-five percent disagreeing.
“A majority of registered voters (56 percent) now agree that “there is an age at which somebody is too old to be president” (up from 50 percent in June 2020), and 45 percent choose 80 or younger as the age they consider too old for the job,” Yahoo News reports.
“Among independents — the key voting group that often decides elections — 60 percent say someone can be too old for the presidency, and a majority (54 percent) set that threshold at 80 or younger,” Yahoo News reports.
