I’ve never seen numbers like this — there’s zero enthusiasm among Democrats for Biden running again.
From Axios:
In two major polls released in the past 24 hours, most Democrats said they want someone besides President Biden as their nominee in ’24:
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37% of Dems in an AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll said they want Biden to seek a second term — down from 52% in the weeks before last year’s midterms. (Go deeper.)
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31% of Dems and Dem-leaning independents in an ABC News-Washington Post Poll said the party should re-nominate Biden. 58% — almost twice as many — want someone else. By contrast, 44% of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents want Trump. (Go deeper.)
Biden hasn’t suffered any major scandals (yet), has punched above his weight legislatively, pulled a rabbit out of his hat in the midterms, is a pretty good representative of where his party is at ideologically, and has a good chance of beating Donald Trump — should he be the Republican nominee. Yet most Democrats don’t want him to run again, which has to be a reflection of what everyone can see regarding his age.