(Daily Mail) Only 38 percent of likely 2024 voters believe President Joe Biden will be alive at the end of another four-year term, according to an exclusive poll for DailyMail.com.
And that means one thing: Vice President Kamala Harris is just as likely to be in the top job as Biden come January 2029 if he wins reelection.
Some 36 percent of likely voters believe Harris will be president at the end of the term. The exact same proportion as think Biden will be in the job.
The results show how the 81-year-old president’s age will be a major factor on November 5 when voters pick the commander in chief they want for the next four years.
Donald Trump, his Republican rival, is only four years younger but voters harbor fewer doubts.
J.L. Partners asked 1005 likely voters for their views on Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Only 38 percent said they were confident that Biden would survive four full years of another term
Some 36 percent of voters think Vice President Kamala Harris will be president by January 2029 if Biden is elected to another four-year term in November
More than half say they are confident he will make it through a full term, with 34 percent saying they have doubts.
Either way, the results show how Republicans and Democrats will have to weigh up not just their choice of president but also consider who is likely to step into the breach if ill health—or worse—incapacitates the leader of the free world.
‘Voters think Biden is too old, and they are not changing their mind,’ said James Johnson, cofounder of J.L. Partners, which conducted the poll.
‘The difficulty for Biden is that views of him are not shaped through events such as his State of the Union address—which people who had seen it felt was fiery—but through consumption of the hundreds of viral social media clips of Biden stumbling and slurring.
‘That solid perception that he is too old feeds through to a sense he is too weak, and it is a major problem for him going into November. Frankly, they do not think he is up to the job—and that makes his re-election a much harder task.’
Biden would be 86 at the end of a second term.
And he tackled the age question directly in his State of The Union address.
‘My fellow Americans,’ said Biden as he wound up to his conclusion, ‘the issue facing our nation isn’t how old we are it’s how old our ideas are?
‘Hate, anger, revenge, retribution are among the oldest of ideas.’
