Americans want a younger generation of lawmakers in Washington, polling data has indicated
US President Joe Biden’s advancing years are viewed by an overwhelming majority of Americans as a stumbling block to him securing a second term in the White House, according to a recent poll.
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research study conducted this month found that some 77% of Americans believe Biden, who turns 81 in November, is too old to be a fully capable president should he be re-elected next year. This view is held by 89% of Republican respondents as well as 69% of Democrats, according to the poll.
“Biden just seems to be very compromised by age-related conditions,” Eric Dezenhall, a former staffer in Ronald Reagan’s White House, said via the Associated Press in comments published on Monday. “Even people who like him see him as being frail and not altogether ‘there.’”
Dezenhall added: “Whatever Trump’s…
