Joe Biden is considered by many Americans to be too old to effectively govern for a second term – more so than Donald Trump.Credit:AP/Getty
A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Centre for Public Affairs Research finds much of the public oddly united in sizing up the one trait Biden cannot change.
The president has taken to raising the age issue himself,with wisecracks,as if trying to relax his audiences about his 80 trips around the sun.
Age discrimination may be banned in the workplace but the president’s employers – the people – aren’t shy about their bias.
In the poll,fully 77 per cent said Biden is too old to be effective for four more years. Not only do 89 per cent of Republicans say that,so do 69 per cent of Democrats. That view is held across age groups,not just by young people – though older Democrats specifically are more supportive of his 2024 bid.
In contrast,about half of US adults say Trump is too old for the office,and here the familiar partisan divide emerges:Democrats are far more likely to disqualify Trump by age than Republicans.
What’s clear from the poll is that Americans are saying out with the old and in with the young,or at least younger.