60% of voters want Biden replaced as candidate after debate, poll says
By: Lauren Floyd (Axios)
Joe Biden wanted this debate early in the campaign cycle. Joe Biden publicly challenged Donald Trump to debate. Biden got the stage he wanted, the rules he wanted, the moderators he wanted. Biden spent several days in intensive preparation for the debate. The entire show was staged for Joe Biden's benefit.
So, what happened?
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
A majority of voters — 60% — say President Biden should "definitely" or "probably" be replaced as the Democratic candidate following his performance in Thursday's debate , per a Morning Consult poll released to Axios Friday.
Why it matters: Findings from the poll of 2,068 respondents echoed whispers from Democrats about the prospect of replacing Biden as the Democratic presidential candidate.
- Of Democratic voters, 21% say Biden should "definitely not" be replaced, and 20% say "probably not."
When the survey asked respondents to choose between Biden and former President Trump, 45% chose the president and 44% chose the former commander-in-chief.
- The results were similar to those from a poll following Trump's criminal conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records linked to a $130,000 hush money payment.
- That shows "President Joe Biden has lost no immediate ground to Trump," per Morning Consult's findings.
By the numbers: Still, most respondents—57%, of those who viewed the debate—said Trump outperformed Biden. That includes 19% of Democrats, 60% of Independents and 93% of Republicans.
What they're saying: Biden campaign spokesperson Seth Schuster criticized the framing of the poll results, which still has Biden leading Trump by a point, and said "Joe Biden is not dropping out."
The fine print: Data from the polls conducted through online interviews were weighted to approximate a target sample of registered voters, per Morning Consult. The margin of error was +/- 2 percentage points.
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Joe Biden is Democrats' Starliner. They're in orbit, the Starliner is leaking gas and has structural problems, and now Democrats are stuck with it. Will it be a spectacular reentry?
How many want Trump replaced ?
Why would we want that?
This time around you won't have "God's gift to the left."
There's at least one Republican in Wyoming who wants Trump gone.
And he's balanced out by a Republican in Colorado who wants him to stay.....for the win.
Trump has never been my first choice, but for the sake of our country, Biden must go and the Republicans need to control Congress. There's a lot of Dem messes to clean up.
I think he is talking about Liz Cheney- who is no longer a Republican no matter what she claims.
State and national Republican parties have bounced her.
If your thinking Liz Cheney, she only owns a summer home here now, she spends most her time in Virginia nowadays.
I wish both major candidates were replaced.
Not to placate those obsessed with Trump, but for the good of the country.
We should be able to do better than two clowns.
Both parties are incompetent
Agreed, but that is what is great about a two party system. No matter how incompetent they are one will always be in power; with the other one waiting in the wings on the one in power fucks things up enough to take control.
No outsiders are wanted by either of them; unless they can be rolled into the Establishment like the Tea Party was.