Poll: 47% of Democratic voters want to replace Biden

The results of the Morning Consult survey showed that about 47% of Democratic voters in the United States believe that Joe Biden, the current president of the United States and the party’s presidential candidate, will be replaced by someone else after the debate with Donald Trump, the Republican candidate. be.

Of those polled, 30 percent of Democrats said Vice President Kamala Harris should be the party’s presidential nominee, while 20 percent said California Gov. Gavin Newson should be.

Earlier, the New York Times editorial board asked Biden to withdraw from the presidential race, noting that the 81-year-old candidate has not even been able to hold Trump accountable for his lies.

The New York Times editorial board has published an opinion piece after the first US presidential debate between President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, advising the incumbent president to withdraw from the presidential race. Resign “to serve his country”.

Describing the 81-year-old president as “the shadow of a great public servant,” the editorial board wrote: “Mr. Biden is not the man of four years ago.” They noted that he struggled to articulate his second-term policy goals, failed to hold Trump accountable for his “lies, failures and heartbreaking schemes” and barely managed to finish the debate.

The editorial board of the New York Times stressed that there are better Democratic officials who can replace Biden and stated that there is no reason to jeopardize the stability and security of America by forcing voters to choose between Trump and Biden. 

They stressed that the United States needed a “stronger opponent” to face the presumptive Republican nominee, and noted that Biden’s poor debate performance could not be attributed to a cold, as there are long-standing concerns about him.

According to a CNN poll, 67% of registered voters who watched the presidential debate between the President of the United States, Joe Biden, and the former President of the country, Donald Trump, consider Trump to be the winner of the debate.

Trump has been one of the prominent figures of the Republican Party since 2016, when he became the President of the United States for the first time, who lost to his Democratic rival Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

Americans will go to the polls on Tuesday, November 5, 2024 (November 15, 1403) to elect the next president of the United States. The winner of this election will start the four-year presidential term from January 2025.

Translator: Azam Purkand