In what should be no surprise to anyone who watched or listened to last Thursday’s presidential debate, a new poll conducted by CBS News shows that a growing number of Americans think President Joe Biden should not run for re-election.
It is unclear whether it was the president’s glazed-over stares or incoherent ramblings that resulted in the increase, but regardless, such polling spells trouble for the Democratic Party ahead of the November election.
Here’s some of what CBS reported about its poll:
For months before the first debate, the nation’s voters repeatedly expressed doubts over whether President Biden had the cognitive health enough to serve.
Today, those doubts have grown even more: now at nearly three-quarters of the electorate, and now including many within his own party.
And today, after the debate with former President Trump, an increased number of voters, including many Democrats, don’t think Mr. Biden should be running for president at all. Nearly half his party doesn’t think he should now be the nominee.
(Trump, for his part, does better, but still only gets half the electorate thinking he has the cognitive health to serve.)
The move came across the partisan board, but it includes a double-digit movement among Democrats, and movement among independents.