{"id":16930,"date":"2022-07-12T15:06:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/?p=16930"},"modified":"2022-07-15T16:43:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T12:43:46","slug":"most-democrats-dont-want-biden-in-2024-new-poll-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/most-democrats-dont-want-biden-in-2024-new-poll-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Democrats Don\u2019t Want Biden in 2024, New Poll Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the country gripped by a pervasive sense of pessimism, the president is hemorrhaging support.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Biden is facing an alarming level of doubt from inside his own party, with 64 percent of Democratic voters saying they would prefer a new standard-bearer in the 2024 presidential campaign, according to a New York Times\/Siena College poll, as voters nationwide have soured on his leadership, giving him a meager 33 percent job-approval rating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Widespread concerns about the economy and inflation have helped turn the national mood decidedly dark, both on Mr. Biden and the trajectory of the nation. More than three-quarters of registered voters see the United States moving in the wrong direction, a pervasive sense of pessimism that spans every corner of the country, every age range and racial group, cities, suburbs and rural areas, as well as both political parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only 13 percent of American voters said the nation was on the right track \u2014 the lowest point in Times polling since the depths of the financial crisis more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voters on the Direction of the Country<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you think the United States is on the right track, or is it headed in the wrong direction?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Mr. Biden, that bleak national outlook has pushed his job approval rating to a perilously low point. Republican opposition is predictably overwhelming, but more than two-thirds of independents also now disapprove of the president\u2019s performance, and nearly half disapprove strongly. Among fellow Democrats his approval rating stands at 70 percent, a relatively low figure for a president, especially heading into the 2022 midterms when Mr. Biden needs to rally Democrats to the polls to maintain control of Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a sign of deep vulnerability and of unease among what is supposed to be his political base, only 26 percent of Democratic voters said the party should renominate him in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Biden has said repeatedly that he intends to run for re-election in 2024. At 79, he is already the oldest president in American history, and concerns about his age ranked at the top of the list for Democratic voters who want the party to find an alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The backlash against Mr. Biden and desire to move in a new direction were particularly acute among younger voters. In the survey, 94 percent of Democrats under the age of 30 said they would prefer a different presidential nominee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m just going to come out and say it: I want younger blood,\u201d said Nicole Farrier, a 38-year-old preschool teacher in East Tawas, a small town in northern Michigan. \u201cI am so tired of all old people running our country. I don\u2019t want someone knocking on death\u2019s door.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Farrier, a Democrat who voted for Mr. Biden in 2020, said she had hoped he might have been able to do more to heal the nation\u2019s divisions, but now, as a single mother, she is preoccupied with what she described as crippling increases in her cost of living. \u201cI went from living a comfortable lifestyle to I can\u2019t afford anything anymore,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats\u2019 Reasons for a Different Candidate<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s the most important reason you would prefer someone other than Joe Biden to be the Democratic Party\u2019s 2024 presidential nominee?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jobs and the economy were the most important problem facing the country according to 20 percent of voters, with inflation and the cost of living (15 percent) close behind as prices are rising at the fastest rate in a generation. One in 10 voters named the state of American democracy and political division as the most pressing issue, about the same share who named gun policies, after several high-profile mass shootings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 75 percent of voters in the poll said the economy was \u201cextremely important\u201d to them. And yet only 1 percent rated economic conditions as excellent. Among those who are typically working age \u2014 voters 18 to 64 years old \u2014 only 6 percent said the economy was good or excellent, while 93 percent rated it poor or only fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The White House has tried to trumpet strong job growth, including on Friday when Mr. Biden declared that he had overseen \u201cthe fastest and strongest jobs recovery in American history.\u201d But the Times\/Siena poll showed a vast disconnect between those boasts, and the strength of some economic indicators, and the financial reality that most Americans feel they are confronting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe used to spend $200 a week just going out to have fun, or going and buying extra groceries if we needed it, and now we can\u2019t even do that,\u201d said Kelly King, a former factory worker in Greensburg, Ind., who is currently sidelined because of a back injury. \u201cWe\u2019re barely able to buy what we need.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. King, 38, said she didn\u2019t know if Mr. Biden was necessarily to blame for the spiking prices of gas and groceries but felt he should be doing more to help. \u201cI feel like he hasn\u2019t really spoken much about it,\u201d Ms. King said. \u201cHe hasn\u2019t done what I think he\u2019s capable of doing as president to help the American people. As a Democrat, I figured he would really be on our side and put us back on the right track. And I just feel like he\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, she said, she is hoping Republicans take over Congress in November to course-correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One glimmer of good news for Mr. Biden is that the survey showed him with a narrow edge in a hypothetical rematch in 2024 with former President Donald J. Trump: 44 percent to 41 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result is a reminder of one of Mr. Biden\u2019s favorite aphorisms: \u201cDon\u2019t compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.\u201d The poll showed that Democratic misgivings about Mr. Biden seemed to mostly melt away when presented with a choice between him and Mr. Trump: 92 percent of Democrats said they would stick with Mr. Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Randain Wright, a 41-year-old truck driver in Ocean Township, N.J., is typical of these voters. He said he talked frequently with friends about Mr. Biden\u2019s shortcomings. \u201cHe\u2019s just not aggressive enough in getting his agenda done,\u201d Mr. Wright lamented. In contrast, he said, \u201cTrump wasn\u2019t afraid to get his people in line.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But while he would prefer a different nominee in 2024, Mr. Wright said he still wouldn\u2019t consider voting Republican in 2024 if faced with a Biden-Trump rematch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the whole, voters appeared to like Mr. Biden more than they like his performance as president, with 39 percent saying they have a favorable impression of him \u2014 six percentage points higher than his job approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In saying they wanted a different nominee in 2024, Democrats cited a variety of reasons, with the most in an open-ended question citing his age (33 percent), followed closely by unhappiness with how he is doing the job. About one in eight Democrats just said that they wanted someone new, and one in 10 said he was not progressive enough. Smaller fractions expressed doubts about his ability to win and his mental acuity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Times\/Siena survey of 849 registered voters nationwide was conducted from July 5 to 7, in the aftermath of the Supreme Court\u2019s June 24 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion, which had been protected for half a century. The ruling sent Democrats into the streets and unleashed an outpouring of political contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typically, voters aligned with the party in power \u2014 Democrats now hold the House, the Senate and the White House \u2014 are more upbeat about the nation\u2019s direction. But only 27 percent of Democrats saw the country as on the right track. And with the fall of Roe, there was a notable gender gap among Democrats: Only 20 percent of Democratic women said the country was moving in the right direction, compared with 39 percent of Democratic men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, abortion rated as the most important issue for 5 percent of voters: 1 percent of men, 9 percent of women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gun policies, following mass shootings in Buffalo, the Texas town of Uvalde and elsewhere, and the Supreme Court\u2019s June 23 ruling striking down a New York law that placed strict limits on carrying guns outside the home, were ranked as the top issue by 10 percent of voters \u2014 far higher than has been typical of nationwide polls in recent years. The issue was of even greater importance to Black and Hispanic voters, ranking roughly the same as inflation and the cost of living, the survey found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The coronavirus pandemic, which so thoroughly disrupted life at the end of the Trump administration and over the first year of Mr. Biden\u2019s presidency, has largely receded from voters\u2019 minds, the survey found. In an open-ended question, fewer than one percent of voters named the virus as the nation\u2019s most important problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Mr. Biden won in 2020, he made a point of trying to make inroads among working-class white voters who had abandoned the Democratic Party in droves in the Trump era. But whatever crossover appeal Mr. Biden once had appears diminished. His job approval rating among white voters without college degrees was a stark 20 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Waldron, a 69-year-old registered Republican and retired machinist in Schenectady, N.Y., voted for Mr. Biden in 2020. Today, he said, he regrets it and plans to vote Republican in 2024. \u201cI thought he was going to do something for this country, but now he\u2019s doing nothing,\u201d Mr. Waldron said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like others, he expressed worries about Mr. Biden\u2019s age and verbal flubs. On Friday, a clip of Mr. Biden at an event announcing an executive order on abortion went viral when he stumbled into saying \u201cterminate the presidency\u201d instead of \u201cpregnancy,\u201d for instance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou ever see him on TV?\u201d Mr. Waldron said, comparing the president to zombies. \u201cThat\u2019s what he looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Biden\u2019s base, in 2020 and now, remains Black voters. They delivered the president a 62 percent job-approval rating \u2014 higher marks than any other race or ethnicity, age group or education level. But even among that constituency, there are serious signs of weakening. On the question of renominating Mr. Biden in 2024, slightly more Black Democratic voters said they wanted a different candidate than said they preferred Mr. Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnybody could be doing a better job than what they\u2019re doing right now,\u201d said Clifton Heard, a 44-year-old maintenance specialist in Foley, Ala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An independent, he said he voted for Mr. Biden in 2020 but is disillusioned over the state of the economy and the spiraling price of gas, and is now reconsidering Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI understand that they\u2019ve got a tough job,\u201d he said of Mr. Biden\u2019s administration. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t prepared to do the job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Times\/Siena nationwide survey was conducted by telephone using live operators. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4.1 percentage points. Cross-tabs and methodology are available here.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alyce McFadden contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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