Voters in new poll more likely to raise concerns about Biden’s stamina than Trump’s

President Biden is just 4 years older than former President Trump, but a new poll found voters are much more concerned about Biden’s stamina than Trump’s heading into the November election.

About half, or 51 percent, of voters surveyed in Thursday’s Monmouth University poll said they are at least “somewhat confident” that Trump, the 77-year-old GOP front-runner, has the mental and physical stamina to carry out another four-year term. Meanwhile, 32 percent said the same about Biden, who is 81.

Both candidates have dismissed concerns about their age, even as voters and people on both sides of the aisle have expressed increasing concern.

The latest numbers show a significant shift in voter confidence from when the candidates faced each other in 2020. At that time, 52 percent were confident in Biden, and 45 percent had faith in Trump.

Voters aged 70 and older were the most confident in the party front-runners, with 45 percent saying they were at least somewhat confident in Biden’s stamina and 43 percent saying the same about Trump.

But a large gap was found in voters under 70, reflecting Trump’s advantage overall on the question. About half expressed confidence in Trump’s stamina, at 52 percent, and less than a third, at 30 percent, felt the same about the incumbent.

“It’s interesting that voters in the same age bracket as both candidates don’t see much of a difference in terms of their stamina. But younger voters clearly have different perceptions of the two,” Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said in an analysis of the findings.

Trump’s remaining rival for the Republican nomination, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, 52, has repeatedly knocked Biden and Trump for their age and made it a key point of her campaign.

Her team this month launched a series of “Grumpy Old Men” ads targeting the two ahead of the general election.

The findings also come after special counsel Robert Hur painted Biden as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” in his recent report following an investigation into Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving the White House as vice president.

Significant portions of voters in the Monmouth survey said that they think it’s possible that one or both of the front-runners could ultimately be replaced before November. Nearly half said it’s possible that Biden wouldn’t finish out the race as a candidate, while a third think the GOP may need to replace the former president.

For Biden, health was cited as the top factor in his possible replacement, while Trump’s ongoing legal troubles were cited as possibly playing a negative role on his chances.

The Monmouth poll was conducted Feb. 8-12 among 902 adults aged 18 and over. The margin of error is 4.3 percentage points.

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