e; I wrote a better headline than the ABC editors decided to and excerpted a bit more
According to the poll, conducted using Ipsos’ Knowledge Panel, 86% of Americans think Biden, 81, is too old to serve another term as president. That figure includes 59% of Americans who think both he and former President Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner, are too old and 27% who think only Biden is too old.
Sixty-two percent of Americans think Trump, who is 77, is too old to serve as president. There is a large difference in how partisans view their respective nominees – 73% of Democrats think Biden is too old to serve but only 35% of Republicans think Trump is too old to serve. Ninety-one percent of independents think Biden is too old to serve, and 71% say the same about Trump.
Concerns about both candidates’ ages have increased since September when an ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 74% of Americans thought Biden – the oldest commander in chief in U.S. history – was too old to serve another term as president, and 49% said the same about Trump.
Part that drew my eye,
The poll also comes days after the Senate failed to advance a bipartisan foreign aid bill with major new border provisions.
Americans find there is blame to go around on Congress’ failure to pass legislation intended to decrease the number of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border – with about the same number blaming the Republicans in Congress (53%), the Democrats (51%) and Biden (49%). Fewer, 39%, blame Trump.
More Americans trust that Trump would do a better job of handling immigration and the situation at the border than Biden – 44%-26% – according to the poll.
So that bipartisan border bill stunt was terrible policy, and it doesn’t seem to have done anything for the Democratic party politically
Can we please stop trying to compromise with fascists now?
Which won’t happen unless we call out the people who voted for him in the 2020 primaries. They made a selfish and foolish decision.
It actually won’t happen until there’s real grassroots support and people working locally to get people elected. Lots of people just come out once every 4 years and wonder why nothing is changing.
Why are you avoiding a conversation about the people who voted for Biden in the 2020 primaries?
Because I’m interested in NOW and next year not choices that were made 4 years ago. Why are you obsessed with it? Every post you make in this thread is “what about the 2020 primaries!?”
You play the card you’re dealt and you keep moving forward and pushing for what you want. It’s something the “left” (what passes for it) could learn from the right.
Fine. When is the appropriate time to have this conversation?
4 years ago.
People told me we could push Biden to the left and that he had the best chance of defeating Trump.
Also they told me that wasn’t the right time either. Were they wrong?
Well he did win. And honestly pretty much no matter what he does in office, his most admiral feat was to stop the insanity we had the previous 4 years
I know he won in the 2020 general. I helped. I won’t be helping again. I will vote 3rd party.