Fogbow

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60% of voters want Biden replaced as candidate after debate, poll says
Lauren Floyd

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.

The Biden campaign did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment.

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.

sad-cafe wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2024 9:05 pm where is the FUCK NO?

sad-cafe wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2024 9:05 pm where is the FUCK NO?

Lawrence O'Donnell @Lawrence wrote: Friday’s Last Word:

The day after the “debate” Joe Biden had a strong day on the campaign trail & Trump said electric airplanes (which don’t exist) need sunshine to fly.

@TheLastWord 10pm @MSNBC

Katie Rogers @katierogers wrote: At a fundraiser just now per pool, Jill Biden describes the moments after the debate: "So let's talk about last night's debate, because I know it's on your minds." she said. (1/)

“As Joe said earlier today, he's not a young man. And you know, after last night's debate, he said, 'You know, Jill, I don't know what happened. I didn't feel that great.' I said, 'Look, Joe, we are not going to let 90 minutes define the four years that you've been president.'"

Biden’s Wins @BidensWins wrote: BREAKING: Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett just delivered the strongest defense of President Biden I’ve seen today. Retweet this so every American sees this powerful clip.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2024 6:43 pm That said, Hillary, of course, lost.

Dr. Ken wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 10:02 am Comey handed the election to Trump

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod wrote: Reality check: @JoeBiden is the nominee of the Democratic Party, nominated by voters in primaries across the country. Unless the @POTUS, himself, decides to quit--which he won't--that issue is settled.
The discussion that is going on now was timely a year ago, when few wanted to have it.
It's largely irrelevant today.

sad-cafe wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2024 9:05 pm where is the FUCK NO?

Foggy wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 3:16 pmI had a discussion with ol' Wifehorn about that yesterday morning. Her answer was, let 'em sort that out at the convention. But she said that because she didn't have a name. But it isn't a hypothetical situation: if'n you get rid of the President of the United States of America, you have to have a name. "Settle it at the convention" is a recipe for disaster. It means chaos and insanity. It means dogs and cats, living together.

In addition to being neo-maxie zoom dweebies for even suggesting that Biden withdraw, the failing NY Times made that very stupid mistake - they want Biden to drop out, but they don't have a name of his replacement.

In other words, the failing NY Times wants chaos and insanity. This is gonna be a spicy convention, huh? HUH?

Palmer Report @PalmerReport wrote: Since Biden's supposedly "disastrous" debate:

- he's massively out fundraised Trump

- half of CNN's focus group members said Biden won the debate

- most of Univision's undecided focus group members shifted to Biden

Biden wasn't a disaster. He was middling. And he'll be fine.

Suranis wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 3:30 pm And ya this is a fake controversy anyway. People were saying "Panicking Democrats are saying" before the debate was even over. How did they know, through the Hive mind? Were millions of Democrats calling them to panic down the phone at them? It was pretty much bullshit. Sorry.

Foggy wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 3:52 pm Many, many Democrats took a deep breath and refused to panic. But a few did lose their mud instantly and made a lot of mess.

ArTrapnell @ArVnTrap wrote: All the hand wringers in the Democratic Party need to STFU and take a page from Newsome's playbook and get him out on the campaign trail.

Robert Costa @costareports wrote: Spoke this morning to a couple people close to President Biden. Hard to overstate how much he dismisses the political class and media in private. Believes many of them haven’t understood him for decades, don’t get his appeal. Cares what elected Ds with real power and voters say.

Palmer Report @PalmerReport wrote: When the dust settles and we see that the debate didn't hurt Biden at all, will MSNBC and CNN and the New York Times all agree to drop out of journalism?