A pair of recent polls suggest that Democratic voters are have seen enough of President Joe Biden and are ready to move on.
A poll from AP-NORC states that only 37% of Democrats want President Biden to run for reelection. This is a significant decrease from the 52% of voters that wanted him to run in the weeks leading up to the midterm elections.
A majority of Americans (51%) believe Biden has “hardly any” ability to effectively manage government spending, according to the poll. The same percentage of Americans believe that Biden has the ability to effectively work with Republicans in Congress. (RELATED: POLL: Highest Number of Americans In Four Decades Say They’re Financially Worse Off Under Biden’s Presidency)
WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 03: US President Joe Biden delivers remarks about the latest jobs report in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on February 03, 2023 in Washington, DC. According to the Labor Department, employers added 517,000 jobs in January, more than economists anticipated and sending the unemployment rate to its lowest level since 1969. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Only 25% of Americans believe that the country is on the right track, as compared to 73% that believe it’s on the wrong path, the poll found.
Another poll conducted by ABC News/Washington Post shows a similarly gloomy picture for the President. Thirty-one percent of Democrats want Biden to run again and 58% want someone else, according to the poll.
The poll also shows pessimistic economic perceptions from the public, which might contribute to the desire to move off from Biden. The poll states that 41% of Americans report being worse off under the Biden Presidency than when he first took office. For comparison, 13% of Americans reported feeling worse off financially under the first year of former President Donald Trump‘s administration.
The AP-NORC polled 1,068 adults and was conducted between Jan. 26-30 with a 4.2% margin of sampling error. The ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted between Jan. 27-Feb. 1 with 1,003 adult participants and a 3.5% margin of sampling error.