No Country For Old Men, Con't

Heading into the tail end of the summer, Americans still overwhelmingly believe that Joe Biden is too old to effectively serve a second term, and while a bare majority believe the same of Trump across all US adults, Republicans are somewhat delusional still about Trump's age and health.

Americans actually agree on something in this time of raw discord: Joe Biden is too old to be an effective president in a second term. Only a few years his junior, Donald Trump raises strikingly less concern about his age.

But they have plenty of other problems with Trump, who at least for now far outdistances his rivals for the Republican nomination despite his multiple criminal indictments. Never mind his advanced years — if anything, some say, the 77-year-old ought to grow up.

A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds much of the public oddly united in sizing up the one trait Biden cannot change.

The president has taken to raising the age issue himself, with wisecracks, as if trying to relax his audiences about his 80 trips around the sun.

Age discrimination may be banned in the workplace but the president’s employers — the people — aren’t shy about their bias.

In the poll, fully 77% said Biden is too old to be effective for four more years. Not only do 89% of Republicans say that, so do 69% of Democrats. That view is held across age groups, not just by young people, though older Democrats specifically are more supportive of his 2024 bid.

In contrast, about half of U.S. adults say Trump is too old for the office, and here the familiar partisan divide emerges — Democrats are far more likely to disqualify Trump by age than are Republicans. 

 

Independent voters match the overall totals by a bit less. The perception of Biden as just too old for the job is across the board, even 69% of Democrats think so.

 

Only 28% of Republicans think Trump is too old, the rest believe that Fulton County booking record where Trump lied and said he was 6'3" and 215, literally NFL player stuff. 

 

Needless to say, Biden's already in the job, he bet Trump once already, and now Trump is weighed down by dozens of criminal counts. Even here in KY, I'm voting for Joe and I expect tens of millions will do so as well.