President Joe Biden has announced his intention to continue his campaign in the upcoming presidential race against former President Donald Trump, despite indications that this may not align with the desires of the voters.
According to a recent Rasmussen Reports poll released on Friday, the results are concerning for both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. The poll revealed that 55 percent of respondents expressed a preference for the president to withdraw from the election. Additionally, 50 percent of those surveyed suggested that Democrats should consider selecting a different candidate, rather than Harris, as Biden’s potential replacement.
“Importantly, nearly half (48%) of Democratic voters at least somewhat agree that Biden should step aside and let the Democratic Party choose another candidate,” the poll said.
A different survey conducted by Cygnal delivered more bad news for the Democrats, with voters harshly criticizing the president’s debate performance and expressing a lack of confidence in the vice president.
“Post-debate, we’ve seen the largest single month-over-month movement towards Republicans across-the-board, from R+0 to R+4, in the history of our national polling,” Cygnal President Brent Buchanan said. “President Biden’s image worsened to 62% having an unfavorable view of him after 67% of respondents said they watched his disastrous debate performance.”
“Trump’s performance earned him 4 points of undecided debate-watchers and another 3 points from those who were Biden supporters heading into the debate. There’s little question this has further eroded the political environment for Democrats,” he said.
Despite his low polling numbers, the president remains adamant that he will not resign. During a recent rally in Wisconsin, Biden made another mistake by asserting that he is still the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.
“There’s been a lot of speculation: What’s Joe going to do? Is he going to stay in the race? Is he going to drop out?” he said to the crowd in a 17 minute speech.
“Here’s my answer: I’m running and going to win again,” he said before having his brain freeze.
“I’m the nominee of the Democratic Party,” the president said to the crowd who gathered in a middle school gym. “You voted for me to be your nominee — no one else.
“Some folks don’t seem to care who you voted for. Guess what? They are trying to push me out of the race. Let me say this as clearly as I can: I’m staying in the race,” the president said.
“I will beat Donald Trump,” he said. “I will beat him again in 2020.”
The president then corrected himself and said “By the way, we’re going to do it again in 2024.”
The president has also agreed to participate in another debate with former President Donald Trump; however, when the former president proposed a debate on Friday, he set specific conditions.
