More than half of likely voters believe that presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden would not complete his first term if elected president, a new poll has found.
The poll, released Monday by Rasmussen Reports, found that 59 percent of likely voters thought it was likely that Biden’s running mate would become president over the course of the four – year span.
Ninety-nine percent of likely voters saw the scenario that Biden did not complete his first term as highly probable, as opposed to just probable.
Divided by party, even 49 percent of likely Democratic voters said they believe Biden’s striker would take over the job.
Fifty-five percent of Republicans and 57 percent of non-party-affiliated likely voters also said they did not believe Biden could last the entire term of his term.
Biden, who would turn 78 in January, has been rumored to be a one-year president because of his age. This has led to speculation that whoever was elected as his running mate would be almost certain to take over the presidency in 2024.
Biden and his campaign have denied the speculation.
However, Rasmussen’s poll found that only 45 percent of all voters said they believed Biden’s choice of VP was important for her vote this fall.
Biden spent the weekend with family at his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, limiting his choices to a running mate.
The former vice president was spotted all weekend in and around his beach house, even taking a bike ride in which he told a Fox News reporter that he had chosen him as his running mate. The Biden campaign later declared that this was actually a joke.
The former vice president has previously said he would announce his running mate in the first week of August.
Despite this, assistants, surrogates and other campaign officials have long said that the only real deadline for Biden is the Democratic National Convention, which begins on August 17.
This is consistent with Biden’s past of ignoring self-imposed deadlines for larger political decisions. The former vice president missed deadline after deadline in early 2019, while deciding whether to enter the 2020 race.
Rasmussen polled 1,000 likely voters between August 6-9. Their margin of error was +/- 3 percentage points.
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