
Voters Had Issues With Biden’s Age Long Before The Debate. That’s Why Democrats Are Worried.
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING A few days before the debate that upended President Joe Biden’s presidency, a Democratic pollster conducted an online focus group of swing voters in a Midwestern battleground state. Whether it’s a debate, whether it is a scandal, whether it is an individual hot mic moment,” Biden campaign pollster Molly Murphy said in an MSNBC interview on Sunday. “Even if you accept the premise that the vote is not really that much worse than it was before the debate, presumably there’s a dramatically higher share of people who think Biden is not up for the job, meaning it gets a lot harder to move people toward Biden given those concerns,” the pollster said. “I’m feeling suddenly sort of hopeful about that.” Rep. James Clyburn, whose endorsement helped propelled Biden to a primary victory in the 2020 presidential election, has said he would support Harris in the event Biden withdraws, though he also suggested he was open to a “mini-primary” among multiple candidates ahead of the August presidential nominating convention.
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