By Meesam @Adobe Stock
Aaron Zitner of The Wall Street Journal report that Trump is now ahead by 6 points, with 80% saying the incumbent is too old to run. He writes:
Donald Trump has opened a 6-point lead over President Biden among voters nationally, with 80% saying that the president is too old to run for a second term, a new Wall Street Journal poll finds.
Trump’s lead over Biden in a two-person matchup, 48% to 42%, is the widest in Journal surveys dating to late 2021 and compares with a 2-point lead in February. The new survey began interviewing voters two days after the debate with Trump that left Democrats panicked about the 81-year-old president’s possible cognitive decline and their party’s weakening election prospects in November.
The new survey contains a range of signs that Biden’s political standing has weakened, at the same time a small but growing number of Democrats are calling for him to withdraw as the party’s nominee. The share who say he is too old to run rose 7 points from the Journal’s survey in February. Some 34% now view the president in a favorable light, a low mark in Journal surveys, with 63% viewing him unfavorably. Less than 40% approve of his handling of inflation, immigration, the economy or his office overall. […]
By 3 percentage points, more voters say they would back a Republican rather than a Democrat for Congress. Both parties are viewed unfavorably. But negative views of the GOP outweigh positive ones by 10 points, while for Democrats the gap is 20 points.
The Wall Street Journal poll interviewed 1,500 registered voters from June 29 through July 2. The margin of error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points for the full sample. The survey was conducted jointly by Democrat Mike Bocian of the firm GBAO and Republican David Lee of Fabrizio Lee.
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