Nearly two-thirds of Democrats say President Joe Biden should withdraw from the presidential race and let his party nominate a different candidate, according to a new poll, sharply undercutting his post-debate claim that “average Democrats” are still with him even if some “big names” are turning on him.

The new survey by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, conducted as Biden works to salvage his candidacy two weeks after his debate flop, also found that only about 3 in 10 Democrats are extremely or very confident that he has the mental capability to serve effectively as president, down slightly from 40% in an AP-NORC poll in February.

The findings underscore the challenges the 81-year-old president faces as he tries to silence calls from within his own party to leave the race and tries to convince Democrats that he’s the best candidate to defeat Donald Trump. The poll was conducted mostly before Saturday’s assassination attempt on Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. It’s unclear whether the shooting influenced people’s views of Biden, but the small number of poll interviews completed after the shooting provided no early indication that his prospects improved.

  • takeda@lemmy.world
    155·
    5 months ago

    Yeah, I didn’t point it out earlier, but you were already changing goalposts in the prior response.

    President is not just signing bills, but also leading Democrats, and negotiates with Republicans to get bills passed. How do you think the bill to help Ukraine passed in April? Johnson just had a change of heart out of nowhere

    This is why trump accomplished very little legislatively, he basically doesn’t know about making compromises.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      414·
      5 months ago

      President is not just signing bills, but also leading Democrats negotiated with Republicans to get bills passed

      Expect Biden said publicly and repeatedly that even changing a Dems mind would be impossible so trying would be a waste of effort…

      Do you disagree with Biden on that?

      If so, why do you still want him as president when he thinks your reason for why it should be him is not his job?

      • takeda@lemmy.world
        21·
        5 months ago

        Huh?

        Because he maybe did bad in the first debate (because apparently looking more energetic is more important than actually making sense), but his administration does an excellent governing job.

        We already know how he is governing, what his foreign policy is.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          5 months ago

          How about top 3 that Biden did?

          Not just legislation that he signed, three things that we got because Biden has the big desk and not literally anyone else with a D by their name.

          Why keep replying when you can’t do that?