Voters have a less flattering image of the main candidates for the 2024 presidential election, according to an opinion poll by the AP news agency and the NORC research institute.
In the upcoming US presidential election, age is the president For Joe Biden a much bigger problem than his number one contender, For Donald Trump.
This is despite the fact that the men are only three years apart in age.
77 percent of Americans think that the 80-year-old Biden is too old to properly survive the second term. 51 percent consider Trump too old for the position of president.
The information is revealed by the image measurement of the NORC research institute operating in connection with the news agency AP and the University of Chicago.
The research does not give a flattering image of either candidate. When Biden is associated with old age, Trump is associated with crime.
The survey asked respondents to say the first word that comes to mind about the main candidates.
For Biden, 26 percent of all adults mentioned age, and 15 percent chose words associated with slowness and confusion.
For Trump, almost a quarter of the respondents mentioned words related to corruption, crimes, lying and unreliability.
The number of sleeping voters may increase
Both are also vulnerable to criticism from their own parties and mobile voters.
– Biden looks like he should be a kind dad on someone’s arm, instead his hand is on the handle of power, says the 27-year-old Democrat in an AP interview Justin Campbell.
– I’ve had enough of Trump, says the 58-year-old CEO Rami Marsha for AP. Marsha is a registered Democrat who voted for Trump 2016 and Biden 2020.
He says he will probably not vote in the 2024 presidential election if Biden and Trump are up against each other.
By measurement, this is a fairly common mindset. Only 24 percent of Americans would like Biden to seek another term, and 30 percent think the same about Trump.
The majority is reluctant to support either of them if the parties nominate them as presidential candidates.
We want an age limit for top positions
62% of Americans have an unpopular image of Trump and 52% of Biden.
The majority of Americans, regardless of party affiliation, would also be ready to support setting an upper age limit for the president, representatives of parliament, senators and Supreme Court justices.
NORC interviewed 1,165 adults in the United States for an opinion survey. The margin of error is +/- 3.8 percentage points.
AP