The majority of American voters are still very concerned about Joe Biden’s age and mental fitness, a new poll shows.
Moreover, the Harvard HarrisX Poll released this week shows three Republican candidates would defeat the president in a hypothetical general election: former President Donald Trump, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.
While most polls, including the most recent, show Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in second place behind Trump, he surprisingly does not beat Biden in a head-to-head matchup.
Meanwhile, 69 percent of registered voters surveyed on September 12 and 14 say Biden is too old to run for president again at age 80 — and 58 percent think he is mentally unfit for office.
Trump, 77, is just three years younger than Biden. But he is still the heavy favorite for the 2024 GOP nomination.
Americans are increasingly concerned about age, especially now that Biden and Trump are both on board to break the previous record of being the oldest president ever inaugurated — a record set by Biden when he was elected in 2020.
A new poll shows that 69% of registered voters think Joe Biden is too old to serve four more years as president
Biden, 80, is the oldest president ever inaugurated in American history. He would break that record again in 2024 if elected to a second term
An earlier poll showed that as many as 77 percent of Americans think Biden is too old to serve four more years in the White House.
Yet there are no serious contenders for the Democratic nomination against the sitting president. But Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson both launched longshot bids to take on Biden.
However, the Republican field is full of candidates trying to fill a spot that feels like Trump is already guaranteed.
If the Republican primaries were held today, a whopping 57 percent say they would vote for the former president, with DeSantis coming in a distant second with just 10 percent. Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is in third place with 8 percent.
But DeSantis won’t beat Biden in a matchup, despite other candidates polling lower than him beating the president in a hypothetical general election.
When Trump faces Biden, the ex-president wins by 4 percent. But DeSantis would lose by 4 percent, the poll shows.
Meanwhile, both South Carolina candidates, Nikki Haley and Tim Scott, are shown defeating Biden if they run with him in a general election.
Haley, 51, was Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations — but is now one of his bigger critics on the campaign trail. If he runs against Biden, Haley will earn 41 percent, compared to the president’s 37 percent. This is the same 4 percent gap by which Trump beats Biden.
Senator Scott would defeat Biden by just 2 percent, according to the poll that shows the Republican Party hopeful with a lead of 39 to 37 percent.
The Latest Poll Shows Three Republican Candidates Would Beat Joe Biden in a General Election – But Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Isn’t One of Them
Harvard HarrisX poll shows Trump South Carolina Senator Tim Scott and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley would all beat Biden in a hypothetical general election contest
In the GOP primaries, Haley is in fourth place with just 6 percent support, while Scott is in seventh place in the same poll with just 2 percent of the vote.
Meanwhile, Ramaswamy, even though he ranks third among Republican nominees, would lose to Biden by 2 percent, with 37 percent saying they would vote for the biotech boss in an overall contest, compared to the 39 percent who would vote for Biden . .
However, former Vice President Mike Pence has the biggest gap with the president. The HarrisX poll shows him losing by six points, with 36 percent support to Biden’s 42 percent.
Pence is in fifth place in the Republican race with 4 percent – a drop of 3 percent since the last poll.
Nine percent of Republican registered voters still don’t know who they will vote for in the 2024 primaries.
If Trump were to be knocked out of the primary, DeSantis and Ramaswamy would be neck and neck behind the Florida governor’s lead over the political newcomer, which is just 1 percent.