Half of independents want Democrats to replace Biden as the nominee after debate – Washington Examiner

Fifty percent of independents think the Democratic Party should nominate someone other than President Joe Biden to have the best chance of winning in November, according to a Friday YouGov survey that was conducted after the first presidential debate.

Just 21% of independents said Biden was the best option, while 29% said they were not sure. 

By contrast, 39% of independents said the Republican Party should nominate former President Donald Trump to have the best chance of winning, with just 37% saying the party should nominate someone else and 24% being unsure.

Biden won independent voters by 13 percentage points in the 2020 election, a shift from 2016, when they voted for Trump by a 4-point margin.

Although independents favored Trump by 2 points last month in a Fox News poll, they preferred Biden by 9 points in the outlet’s latest June poll.

Biden’s lackluster performance in Thursday’s debate has sparked panic from Democrats who worry that concerns over Biden’s age and mental acuity could cost them November’s election.

Nearly 30% of Democrats said their party should nominate someone else, and only 53% were confident that a Biden nomination was the best option ahead of the election, according to YouGov’s poll.

Republicans were far more confident in their own party’s presumptive nominee, with 79% saying that Trump would give their party the best shot at victory.

Out of all the nearly 2,650 adults surveyed in the United States, 49% said the Democratic Party should nominate someone other than Biden, while 38% said the Republican Party should nominate someone other than Trump.

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Biden attempted to ease voter anxiety at a North Carolina rally earlier on Friday, telling his supporters that he “know[s] how to do this job.”

“I know I’m not a young man. I don’t walk as easy as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to, but I know what I do know — I know how to tell the truth,” the president said.