POLL: More Americans think Trump would do better job than Biden

An overwhelming majority of Americans think President Joe Biden is too old to serve another term.

Some 86 per cent of Americans think Biden, 81, is too old to serve another term as president. That figure includes 59 per cent of Americans who think both he and former President Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner, are too old and 27 per cent who think only Biden is too old, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll.

Sixty-two percent of Americans think Trump, who is 77, is too old to serve as president. There is a large difference in how partisans view their respective nominees – 73 per cent of Democrats think Biden is too old to serve but only 35 per cent of Republicans think Trump is too old to serve. Ninety-one percent of independents think Biden is too old to serve, and 71 per cent say the same about Trump.

The poll also comes days after the Senate failed to advance a bipartisan foreign aid bill with major new border provisions.

Americans find there is blame to go around on Congress' failure to pass legislation intended to decrease the number of illegal crossings at the US-Mexico border -- with about the same number blaming the Republicans in Congress (53 per cent), the Democrats (51 per cent) and Biden (49 per cent). Fewer, 39 per cent, blame Trump.

More Americans trust that Trump would do a better job of handling immigration and the situation at the border than Biden – 44 per cent – 26 per cent -- according to the poll.

This ABC News/Ipsos poll was conducted using the probability-based Ipsos KnowledgePanel®  February 9-10, 2024, in English and Spanish, among a random national sample of 528 US adults.