President Joe Biden has been dealing with low polling ever since our nation’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
However, a new poll from ABC News and the Washington Post just found Biden’s approval at a new low: 36 percent, down six points since February.
And the poll unearthed some more persistent problems for Biden.
ABC News host George Stephanopolous was visibly stunned and expressed disbelief at the news.
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“This poll is just brutal for President Biden,” Stephanopoulos exclaimed Sunday on ABC News.
In particular, Stephanopolous became awestruck at the polling on the federal investigations into former President Donald Trump, the leading candidate running against Biden.
Between 54 and 56 percent of adults wanted to see criminal charges in any of the federal investigations into Trump. However, the poll still found Trump beating Biden in a general election by six points.
Mathematically, many adults want criminal charges against Trump, but they would likely vote for Trump, anyway.
“I’ve got to admit I have a hard time wrapping my head around that,” Stephanopoulos alleged. “You’ve got one in five people who say they believe President Trump should face criminal charges, but they would still vote for him.”
The Horn News has previously reported on polls showing the investigations’ role in hardening some conservatives’ loyalty to Trump.
But, Biden is dealing with problems beyond just loyalty to Trump.
In the new poll, an extraordinary 63 percent of Americans doubt Biden’s “mental sharpness.” Only 32 percent expressed confidence in it.
What’s more, 58 percent of political moderates doubted Biden’s mental acuity.
With respect to physical health, Biden hardly fared any better. Only 33 percent of adults trusted Biden in that regard.
“It is remarkable,” ABC News political director Rick Klein said.
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Take a look —
“George Stephanopolous, “this poll is just brutal for President Biden”. Down 6 points since Feb, and only 36% DEMs believe Biden should be nominated. With border and economy getting worse, we’ve not seen him hit bottom yet.
pic.twitter.com/1vHYltVdtW— Mark Strickland (@smarkstrickland) May 7, 2023
However, ABC’s political director also speculated about some silver linings for Biden. “I do think once there’s a match-up with an actual person, maybe that changes, but that just tells you about how much Trump is kind of baked into the political equation,” Klein said.
Indeed, a whopping 48 percent of adults described both Trump and Biden as too old for a second term. Meanwhile, only 28 percent of adults described neither of them as too old.
Plus, most Democrats seem to have rallied behind Biden, despite 68 percent of Democrats declaring a preference for another candidate.
For example, only 32 percent of Democrat-leaning voters doubted Biden’s mental acuity. Even among “moderate Democrats,” that number was 31 percent. It was 11 percent among far-Left Democrats.
The pollsters surveyed 1,006 randomly sampled adults via telephone between April 28 and May 3, in both English and Spanish.
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Biden himself has laughed off concerns about his advanced age mental acuity.
“You guys were founded 122 years ago – that’s not when I got endorsed,” Biden told a crowd of machine operators and engineers with the International Union of Operating Engineers in Accokeek, Md., in April.
He referenced “my career of 280 years here” at a Black History Month reception before being interrupted by laughter, and at an Air Force event last month, Biden noted that President Dwight Eisenhower addressed the first class of the Air Force Academy more than six decades ago but that “I wasn’t there … no matter what the press says.”
The Horn editorial team and the Associated Press contributed to this article.