Americans Say Joe Biden is Too Old for Second Term

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Americans actually agree on something in this time of raw discord: Joe Biden is too old to be an effective president in a second term. Only a few years his junior, Donald Trump raises strikingly less concern about his age. 

 

A new poll of 1,165 adults conducted between August 10-14, from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds much of the public oddly united in sizing up the one trait Biden cannot change. The president has taken to raising the age issue himself, with wisecracks, as if trying to relax his audiences about his 80 trips around the sun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Age discrimination may be banned in the workplace but the president's employers – the people – aren't shy about their bias. 

 

In the poll, fully 77% said Biden is too old to be effective for four more years. Not only do 89% of Republicans say that, so do 69% of Democrats. That view is held across age groups, not just by young people, though older Democrats specifically are more supportive of his 2024 bid.