{"id":449,"date":"2023-04-24T09:27:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T15:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2023-04-24T09:27:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T15:27:23","slug":"nbc-news-poll-70-dont-want-biden-to-run-again-age-a-huge-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/nbc-news-poll-70-dont-want-biden-to-run-again-age-a-huge-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC News Poll: 70% Don&#8217;t Want Biden to Run Again; &#8220;Age&#8221; a Huge Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As President Joe Biden prepares to announce his re-election bid for President, likely tomorrow (Tuesday), a new poll from a friendly source &#8211; NBC News &#8211; finds 70% of those polled do NOT want Biden to run again, with 69% citing his age as a reason why. I think the Democrats are wildly underestimating Biden&#8217;s age and health as a real problem for him going forward. It&#8217;s not even primarily that he is 80 years old. It&#8217;s how feeble Biden has become, and people thinking ahead to how feeble he will be two years from now &#8211; and six years from now, when his second term would end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>President <strong>Joe Biden<\/strong> may be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/20\/us\/politics\/biden-presidential-announcement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">48 hours away from announcing his reelection bid<\/a>. But nearly 3 out of 4 Americans are hoping he has a last-minute change of heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/nbc-news-poll-nearly-70-gop-voters-stand-trump-indictment-investigatio-rcna80917\">new poll out Sunday from NBC News<\/a>, 70 percent of Americans do not want Biden to run for a second term, compared to only 26 percent who do. Among those who don\u2019t want the 80-year-old president to pursue a second term, 69 percent cite age as a reason why, with 48 percent calling it a \u201cmajor\u201d reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worse yet for Biden, the new survey shows him facing a steep uphill climb in a general election. The NBC poll shows 41 percent of Americans plan to vote for Biden in 2024, compared to 47 percent who say they will back the Republican nominee. . . . <\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/new-poll-whopping-70-percent-think-biden-shouldnt-run-again-days-before-hes-set-to-announce-reelection-bid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MEDIAITE<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Joe Biden prepares to announce his re-election bid for President, likely tomorrow (Tuesday), a new poll from a friendly source &#8211; NBC News &#8211; finds 70% of those polled do NOT want Biden to run again, with 69% citing his age as a reason why. I think the Democrats are wildly underestimating Biden&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,5,111,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30","category-biden","category-biden-age","category-biden-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}