at all for Biden. Please, keep on talking, Joe!
Democrats were counting on Joe Biden’s State of the Union address to give him a bump in the polls. Americans on both sides of the aisle have been expressing concerns over Joe Biden’s advanced age and cognitive decline. The devastating Hur report, which found that Joe Biden willfully retained, mishandled, and disclosed classified information but he is essentially too senile to stand trial, did him no favors either.
… So, it’s quite clear that a lot was riding on the State of the Union address, and Democrats ought to be panicking because new polling since the speech shows no bump at all.
… Biden’s “fiery” performance (which is widely believed to have been due to medication) didn’t change voters’ attitudes about his fitness for office, either. Fewer than 30% of respondents said that Biden was fit for a second term — essentially unchanged from their previous poll. Over 50% of participants also described the president as “mostly passive” in his role, down slightly from 54% in the prior survey.