Stephanopoulos: New 2024 Poll Bad News for Biden.

Stephanopoulos Calls Out Biden’s Poll Numbers

George Stephanopoulos, former press secretary for President Bill Clinton and current ABC News anchor, has been a staunch supporter of the Democratic party. So when he publicly criticizes President Joe Biden’s poll numbers, it’s worth taking note.

The Poll Results

According to a recent poll by ABC News and The Washington Post, 63% of Americans do not believe that Biden, 80, has the “mental sharpness” to be president. This is up nine points from the same question asked a year ago. Only 32% believe that Biden is mentally capable, while 5% have no opinion.

The poll also found that 62% of Americans do not believe that Biden is in “good enough physical health” to serve as president, while just 33% believe he is.

Former President Donald Trump fared much better in the poll, with 54% of those surveyed saying that he has the mental sharpness compared to Biden’s 32%. And 64% said he’s physically fit enough to be president, compared to Biden’s 33%.

Biden’s approval rating is also at a new low of 36%, down six points since the same poll was conducted in February. More than half (56%) disapprove of the job Biden’s doing.

A majority (54%) of those surveyed said Trump did a better job with the economy than Biden. Just 36% think Biden is doing a better job.

Plus, the poll showed that Trump would beat Biden by 7 points in a head-to-head matchup.

What the Experts Say

“You’re seeing real weaknesses in the coalition that powered Joe Biden to the presidency in 2020,” ABC’s political director Rick Klein told Stephanopoulos. “This race is shaping up [to be] a lot more about the incumbent president Joe Biden than it is about any of his challengers.”

Donna Brazile, a former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, also appeared on “This Week” and said the poll should alarm Democrats.

“It kept me up, and I thought they should wake up and look at those numbers,” Brazile said. “It’s sobering in the sense that the coalition that elected Joe Biden, with the historic numbers that we saw in 2020, that coalition right now is fragmented. That should concern them.”

These poll results are just the latest in a string of bad news for Biden. His job approval rating among the U.S. public slipped to 37% shortly after he announced his re-election campaign two weeks ago, according to Gallup.

For the record, 37% is the lowest Gallup has measured for him to date. The president’s job approval has been hovering in the low 40s for most of the last 18 months, after the initial honeymoon period. But he did drop to 38% last July, then his lowest.

Joseph Curl, a political journalist with 35 years of experience, covered this story for The Daily Wire.

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