According to Rasmussen Reports:
A majority of voters think President Joe Biden shouldn’t seek reelection in 2024, and he would lose a rematch with former President Donald Trump by double-digit margins.
A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and the Heartland Institute finds that 61% of Likely U.S. Voters believe Biden should not run for a second term as president in 2024.
If the next presidential election were held today, and Biden were running against Trump, 50% would vote for Trump while 36% would vote for Biden.
The results would be somewhat closer with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as Biden’s Republican opponent. Forty-six percent (46%) would vote for DeSantis and 35% would vote for Biden if the election were held today, while another 11% say they would vote for someone else.
]Fifty-five percent (55%) of voters have an unfavorable view of Biden, including 44% whose opinion of the president is Very Unfavorable.
“Only 39% of black voters want Biden to run for re-election,” the Heartland Institute said in an analysis of the survey results. “Among Hispanics, only 31% want him to run in the 2024 presidential election. Women voters – a key to Biden’s 2020 victory – have soured on the president, with only 26% wanting him to run again.”
Only 49% of Democrats want Biden to seek a second term in 2024. 85% of Republicans say Biden shouldn’t run again in 2024. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, only 21% believe Biden should run for reelection in 2024.
In a rematch with Trump, 73% of Democrats would vote for Biden while 89% of Republicans would vote for Trump. Among unaffiliated voters in a Biden-Trump rematch, 48% would vote for Trump and 27% would vote for Biden, while 17% would vote for someone else.
In a contest between Biden and DeSantis, 69% of Democrats would vote for Biden and 80% of Republicans would vote for the Florida governor, while unaffiliated voters would go for DeSantis by a 16-point margin – 47% to 27% – over Biden, with 19% of unaffiliated voters preferring someone else.
“Against either prospective Republican presidential candidate, Biden did not gain majority support for re-election among likely voters overall in any racial, gender, or economic demographic,” the Heartland Institute observed. “The highest support Biden received was among 40% of voters who earn more than $200,000 a year and want him to run again.”
