A group of focus groups among voters led by NPR has declared that they are pessimistic about the current president of the country, Joe Biden, being re-elected for a second term.
And yet, six of the nine participants in that most recent panel did not want Biden to run for a second term next year.
“I hate to say it and sound like an ageist, — his age is getting really up there,” said one member of the focus group, a video of which Longwell Partners shared with NPR. “Do we want to elect a president and have him die in office?”
“I agree,” another panelist chimed in. “Give that man a break!”
Longwell said this is a constant theme in her weekly focus groups. Biden’s age is regularly brought up, unprompted, by the swing voters she talks to.
“Immediately when they start thinking about 2024, the first place they go is his age. They are simply worried he is too old for another term,” she said.
Biden, now 80, became the oldest living president the day he was sworn into office. He would be 82 at the start of a second term, and 86 at its end.
“I’ve had a lot of people say things like, ‘Well, he’s going too be closer to 90 by the end of his second term than 80,'” Longwell said.

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