CV NEWS FEED // According to a new poll, a majority of Democratic voters do not want President Joe Biden to be their party’s nominee for president next year.
Fifty-four percent of the party’s primary voters said they would prefer an alternative to Biden, the FOX News poll found. Only 43% wanted Biden to remain at the helm.
The percentage of Democrats who want other candidates has remained steady, albeit slightly increasing, over the last several months.
Two months ago, 53% of voters surveyed wanted a non-Biden candidate as the 2024 Democratic standard-bearer. Back in March, this proportion was a marginally lower 52%.
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“A Gallup poll from late [October] showed that a record-low 37% of respondents approved of the president’s job performance,” CatholicVote reported last month.
“The October poll also showed that Biden’s approval in his own party was at 75% – also the lowest it has been since he took office,” CatholicVote added:
While this intraparty approval percentage may seem high, it is historically dismal. Incumbent presidents seeking another term are generally expected to have near-unanimous intraparty approval. By contrast, when President Donald Trump was in office, his average approval rating among fellow Republicans was 87%.
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Other polling has shown that an even larger percentage of Democrats may be opposed to Biden’s re-nomination than the FOX survey indicated.
A September CNN poll showed that two-thirds of Democratic voters wanted someone other than the incumbent president to be their party’s 2024 presidential nominee.
“When those respondents were asked who the party’s 2024 nominee should be, no other person polled above 3%,” an Axios report added. “The overwhelming majority of Democrat-leaning voters who said they were against a 2nd term for Biden — 82% — said they want ‘just someone besides Joe Biden.’”