The poll comes at a time when Biden’s approval rating remains low and most Americans are unhappy with the state of the country and the economy. Inflation remains high and a new report out on Tuesday showed consumer confidence fell for a third month in a row.
Twenty-four percent of Democratic and Democratic voters said they want someone else because they don’t think Biden can win in 2024, up from 18 percent in a poll conducted in January and February. Thirty-two percent feel that way because they don’t want Biden to be re-elected, up from 16 percent earlier this year. Twenty-five percent said they favored Biden as the nominee, down sharply from 45% in January/February.
The survey shows a sharp decline in enthusiasm for the president’s bid for re-election in 2024. In January/February, 51% of Democratic and Democratic voters said they wanted someone other than Biden to be the Democratic nominee in 2024 .
The new poll shows that 31 percent of Democratic and Democratic voters 45 and older would prefer Biden to be the 2024 nominee.
Among Democratic voters and Democrats under 45, only 18% favor Biden as the 2024 candidate.
The survey also found that a majority of Republicans and Republican registered voters say they do not want former President Donald Trump to be their party’s nominee for president in 2024. Fifty-five percent say they want someone other than Trump to be the nominee, up from 49% in a January/February poll.
The Biden administration is struggling to deal with inflation, which has risen to 40-year highs and left millions of Americans struggling with high prices for essentials like food, housing and gas. The surge in prices comes as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has disrupted key global supply chains, and Russia’s war on Ukraine, which has further affected oil and food prices.
Biden’s approval rating remains in the 30s, according to a separate CNN poll released earlier this month, and Democrats are bracing for losses in this year’s midterm elections.
The CNN poll was released the same day as a new Granite State Poll from the University of New Hampshire showing that just 31 percent of New Hampshire Democrats want Biden to run for re-election and that 59 do not want him to run again. In June, 54 percent of New Hampshire Democrats said they did not want him to run again.
This CNN survey was conducted July 22-24 by SSRS Online using a probability-based panel sample. The results among the full national random sample of 1,002 adults have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.0 percentage points, for the subset of 362 Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters the margin of error is plus or minus 6.7 points.
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