Most Americans don’t think Biden’s mentally sharp enough to serve second term: new poll

A majority of Americans don’t believe President Biden is mentally or physically fit enough to lead the country for a second term, according to a new poll.

On the heels of Biden’s official announcement for reelection, 63% of Americans in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll say they don’t think the 80-year-old is mentally sharp enough to run the nation effectively and 62% believe Biden is not in good enough physical health to be in the Oval Office.

Biden has faced swirling questions about whether he is fit for office due to his various flubs and gaffes throughout his tenure at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Allies and associates of the Democrat are preparing to field plenty of criticism about Biden’s age, and mental and physical abilities during his reelection bid, The Hill reported in March.

When Americans in the poll were asked whether former President Donald Trump had the mental sharpness to serve effectively, 54% believed that he did, the Washington Post reported.

As for his physical health, 64% of Americans thought Trump, 76, was fit to serve, the polling indicates.

Overall, 43% of Americans polled said that both Biden and Trump, who is leading the GOP field so far, are too old to serve new terms if they were to win the White House.

About 28% said neither is too old.

While 26% stated Biden alone was too old to be in office, only 1% said the same about Trump, the polling shows.

Biden would be 82 on Inauguration Day while Trump would be 78 if he were sworn in again.

Broken down by party line, about 1 in 5 Democrats say their party’s leader does not have the mental sharpness or physical health to serve effectively while 94% of Republicans think Biden lacks the mental aptitude, the Washington Post reported.

About 7 in 10 independents say Biden doesn’t have the mental sharpness and physical health to serve the office well.

A 30-year-old independent poll respondent, Clarissa Wadley, said she is “very concerned” about Biden’s mental acumen, but insisted “not in an ageist kind of way,” the Washington Post reported.

Meanwhile 25-year-old Democrat Callaghan Hemmerly, another survey respondent, said he thought both Biden and Trump were too old to be president.

He thinks there should be an age-limit for the highest office, according to the newspaper.

“I think both candidates are too old,” Hemmerly said. “I don’t think really anyone in politics should be over the age of 70.”

Biden, America’s oldest president, said he wanted to “finish the job” in his formal announcement for reelection last month after he beat Trump in 2020.