73% of college Democrats DON'T want Biden to run f
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Almost three-quarters of college Democratic voters say they do not believe that President Joe Biden should run for re-election in 2024.
An NBC/Generation Lab poll of incoming second-year students offered more bad news for the president, who has seen his fortunes improve slightly in recent weeks amid legislative wins and lower gas prices.
But questions remain about whether the 79-year-old is the best person to run in two years time.
The poll of 1077 students found that 73 percent of Democrats believed he should not run again, while only 27 percent thought he should be on the ticket again.
He fares less well than former President Donald Trump. Some 57 percent of second-year college Republican voters say he should run, while only 43 percent say he should stay out of the race.
The should-he/shouldn't-he debate began almost as soon as Biden won the 2020 election.
If he runs again and wins he would be sworn in at the age of 82, leading to constant speculation that he might step aside for a younger generation of Democratic leader.
That speculation only took on greater power as his administration stumbled through crisis after crisis, from the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan to record high gas prices through this past summer.
The result was a growing sense that November's midterm elections would result in a wipeout.
But the president has enjoyed a good few weeks, signing three new bills into law. They include the Inflation Reduction Act, a climate, health, and tax bill, which he signed at the White House on Tuesday, and which supporters say will help turn out Democrats in the midterms.
And on Friday the Democratic National Committee announced the launch of a seven figure ad campaign.
'Joe Biden and Democrats took on Big Pharma and Big Oil — the American people won, and powerful special interests lost. Their plan lowers the costs of prescription drugs and health care for American families,' says the narrator of one.
But there was bad news in another poll, which found that the raid by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on former President Donald Trump’s home has damaged the agency's standing with Republican and independent voters and that a majority agree with the idea that it has become 'Biden's Gestapo.'
The search of Mar-a-Lago has emboldened Trump supporters and generated a wave of donations to the former president's political organizations.
And close allies including Steve Bannon have used the public platforms to compare the FBI with Hitler's Gestapo or East Germany's brutal secret police force, the Stasi.
In a new survey, Rasmussen Reports asked 1000 likely voters whether they agreed with Trump loyalist Roger Stone, who last year said the FBI had become President Joe Biden's 'personal Gestapo.'
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