More than three-quarters of Americans say in a poll released Monday that President Biden is too old to be effective if reelected to the White House.
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs survey found that Americans were more likely to say age would be a problem for Biden rather than former President Trump, who is just a few years younger than his successor. According to the poll, 77 percent of Americans — including 89 percent of Republicans and 69 percent of Democrats — said Biden is too old to be effective for four more years.
The AP noted that the negative view of Biden’s age is held across age groups, not just by younger people.
On the other hand, about half of Americans said Trump is too old for the White House, and Democrats were more likely than Republicans to say Trump’s age makes him ineffective for office.
Democrats, Republicans and independents all said they wanted to see age limits imposed on the presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court, pollsters found. About two-thirds of Americans surveyed backed an age limit for the White House and Congress, as well as a mandatory retirement age for justices.
Sixty-six percent support age limits for presidential candidates, 68 percent support limits for the House and the Senate and 67 percent support a mandatory retirement age for the Supreme Court.
The poll was conducted among 1,165 U.S. adults Aug. 10-14 and has a margin of sampling error of 3.8 percentage points.
The Associated Press contributed.