One in three voters thinks President Biden won’t survive another four-year term in the White House, a new poll shows.
The poll conducted by DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners revealed that 38% of likely 2024 voters believe Mr. Biden will be alive by the end of another four-year stint in the Oval Office. Another 33% are not confident that he will survive, and 26% said they don’t know.
Mr. Biden, 81, is already the oldest president. If he gets reelected in November and survives another term, he would be 86 when he leaves office.
Some 36% of likely voters believe Vice President Kamala Harris will be the president at the end of the four years if Mr. Biden wins a second term.
“Voters think Biden is too old, and they are not changing their mind,” James Johnson, cofounder of J.L. Partners, told Daily Mail.
Mr. Johnson said the view that Mr. Biden is too old is fueled by videos of him stumbling physically and over his words.
“That solid perception that he is too old feeds through to a sense he is too weak, and it is a major problem for him going into November. Frankly, they do not think he is up to the job — and that makes his reelection a much harder task,” he said.
Even though former President Donald Trump is only four years younger than Mr. Biden, more voters, at 54%, are confident that he’ll survive another four years, while 21% are not confident he’ll make it.
Mr. Trump, who will turn 78 in June, would end his four years at age 82.
The view that Mr. Biden is too old has been a constant throughout his reelection campaign. His campaign has had the tough job of trying to convince the public that he is capable of running the country for another four years.
Special counsel Robert Hur, who handled the investigation into Mr. Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, said in his report that he could not charge Mr. Biden because his “memory was significantly limited.”
“It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness,” the report said.
After the report was released, Mr. Biden and his campaign vehemently denied the allegations that his memory is in a poor state.
The poll was conducted from March 20-24 by landline, cellphone, SMS and apps. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 points.
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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