President Joe Biden. File photoWASHINGTON, Jul 1Over 70 percent of Americans do not want incumbent US President Joe Biden to fight for the presidency again in 2024, writes the Hill newspaper on Friday, citing data from a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll. According to the poll, 71% of respondents believe that Biden should not run again for the post of head of state, while the opposite opinion is held by 29%. Among opponents of Biden's renomination, about half say he is a «bad president», a third say he is «too old», and a quarter say there is a need for «change» in the American leadership.
Biden's policy leads to the defeat of the Democrats in the elections, experts say «President Biden may again express a desire to run again, but voters say «no» to the idea of a second presidential term, expressing condemnation of the work he has done. Only 30% of Democratic supporters would vote for him even during primaries of the Democratic Party,» said Mark Penn, director of Harvard-Harris, whose words are quoted by the publication. As for Biden's main political opponent, his predecessor Donald Trump, who has repeatedly hinted at the possibility of participating in the next presidential election, the opinions of Americans are divided. The majority of respondents (61%) said they did not want to see him again in the White House. At the same time, just over a third of Trump's opponents said they consider him «unbalanced», another third that he would «divide the country», and the remaining one that he was responsible for the storming of the Capitol in January 2021. The poll was conducted online between 28 and June 29 among 1308 American citizens. The sample is representative, no information on statistical error is given.
