Replace Biden as nominee:
64% all voters
55% Black voters
66% Hispanic voters
48% Biden (!) voters
Biden is too old to be an effective president:
69% all voters
62% Black voters
68% Hispanic voters
55% Biden voters
This is from the NYT PRE-debate poll, Trump 48-Biden 42, which was taken:
- After weeks of wall-to-wall coverage of Trump's criminal conviction
- Months after Biden campaigned intensely and spend tens of millions on swing state ads
- At a time when 80% of voters said they were paying attention to the race
Almost every other pre-debate poll found similar results.
This is not an elite thing. This is not a media thing. This is not a one-bad-debate-freakout thing.
The voters have been voicing these concerns for months now. Denying them or dismissing them is not the way to overcome them.