Washington: Agencies
A new poll conducted by the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research at the Associated Press revealed that about two-thirds of Democrats believe that President Biden should step down and allow the party to choose a different candidate in the US presidential race.
The poll found that 70% of Americans, including half of Democrats, said they were not confident that Biden had the mental capacity to assume the presidency, an increase from last February when only a third of Democrats said they were not confident in his abilities. According to what was reported by the Youm7 news website in Cairo
Democrats are particularly concerned about Biden's inability to win the election. Only 37% of them said they thought he could win, compared to 72% of Republicans who said they thought former President Donald Trump could win.
The new poll, conducted between July 11 and 15 as calls for Biden to exit the presidential race increased from Democratic lawmakers and donors, showed the same feelings growing among ordinary Democrats.
This is not the first poll to find that a majority of voters hold the same vision, but now there is a relatively large majority of voters from the president's party demanding a different candidate.
In early July, less than half of Democrats said that Biden should step down, according to a New York Times and Siena College poll, while another poll conducted a week later found a slight increase in this percentage, with 56% of Democrats saying that the president should not remain in the presidential race.
Since Biden's poor performance in the presidential debate against Trump late last month, the president and senior campaign officials have acknowledged that while calls for him to step down have come from the party's elite, he still has the support of ordinary Democrats, but opinion polls increasingly no longer reflect this.