According to the latest polling average from data site FiveThirtyEight, rejection of Biden is at 54 percent and widespread concerns about his age continue.
For some analysts, it is inconceivable that compared to former President Donald Trump, impeached four times and with 91 state and federal charges against him, the current head of the White House is, at best, in a tie.
Democrats are also showing alarm signs because their own polls in the battleground states raise warnings about Biden’s candidacy.
“What the White House has not accepted is that next year’s election will be a referendum on the president, and he is now losing that vote himself,” said a party strategist quoted by The Hill newspaper on condition of anonymity.
In the RealClearPolitics average of national polls he has been in the lead for the last month and in a published Emerson College opinion study the Republican has a two-point lead nationally. Separately, several polls in key states conducted by Bloomberg/Morning Consult this week revealed that Biden is trailing, albeit by relatively narrow margins, in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, which he won in 2020.
Other polls give Biden a narrow lead nationally, including Economist/YouGov (one point) and NPR/PBS/Marist (three points), raising concerns about the tightness of the numbers.
Regarding age, more than 70 percent of those interviewed are disturbed by Biden’s ability to serve a second term, because, if he did, he would be 82 years old when he takes office in January 2025.
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