{"id":1415061,"date":"2022-04-01T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415061"},"modified":"2022-04-01T16:22:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T20:22:12","slug":"not-an-april-fools-joke-nearly-1-in-5-democrats-want-hillary-clinton-as-their-nominee-if-biden-cant-run-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-an-april-fools-joke-nearly-1-in-5-democrats-want-hillary-clinton-as-their-nominee-if-biden-cant-run-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"NOT AN APRIL FOOLS\u2019 JOKE: Nearly 1 in 5 Democrats Want Hillary Clinton as Their Nominee If Biden Can\u2019t Run in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnot-an-april-fools-joke-nearly-1-in-5-democrats-want-hillary-clinton-as-their-nominee-if-biden-cant-run-in-2024%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415061&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A majority of Americans said they have &#8220;doubts&#8221; about\u00a0President Joe Biden&#8217;s mental fitness, while nearly two-thirds said he might be &#8220;too old&#8221; to be president, according to a recently published Harvard-Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/ca678077bc522bd7bd74bacbf\/files\/8268fbf4-a318-713b-ed6e-8c25f5df1f41\/HHP_March2022_FinalEdited.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The results are not exactly surprising, given the alarming rate at which Biden, 79, has been committing <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/biden-walks-it-back\/\">gaffes<\/a> on the international stage amid the lingering threat of nuclear war. Nevertheless, they might come as a surprise to consumers of mainstream media, where the coverage of the Biden administration tends to portray the president as a sharp and steadfast leader in these trying times.<\/p>\n<p>The poll found that 55 percent of Americans had doubts as to whether Biden was &#8220;mentally fit to serve&#8221; as president, compared with 45 percent who expressed confidence in his mental fitness. By an identical margin, Americans also expressed doubts about Biden&#8217;s ability to &#8220;handle difficult international issues.&#8221; Asked whether Biden was &#8220;showing he is too old to be president,&#8221; 62 percent of Americans said yes, while 38 percent said otherwise, including one in three Democrats. Two-thirds of Hispanic voters said Biden might be too old to be president, along with 43 percent of black voters.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not great, especially considering the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris is &#8220;a heartbeat away&#8221; from the presidency. On a related note, just 36 percent of Americans said they had a favorable opinion of Harris, which is pretty bad but only slightly worse than the 38 percent of Americans who expressed a favorable opinion of Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The poll results paint a grim picture of the Democratic Party&#8217;s political prospects in 2022 and beyond. For example, the party&#8217;s approval rating was underwater, at just 42 percent, compared with 50 percent for the Republican Party. By a margin of 53 percent to 47 percent, most Americans said they would be more likely to support a Republican candidate over a Democrat in the upcoming midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to the 2024 presidential election, just 34 percent of Democrats said they would vote for Biden to be the party&#8217;s nominee. If he runs for reelection and wins, Biden would be 82 years old by the time he is inaugurated for a second term. Most shockingly of all, a full 15 percent of Democrats said that if Biden were to become too mentally decrepit to run, they&#8217;d prefer to nominate Hillary Clinton in 2024. Meanwhile, 28 percent said they&#8217;d prefer Harris, which would be an even more <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/kamala-harris-deep-thoughts\/\">embarrassing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/veep-thoughts-kamala-harris\/\">disaster<\/a> for the party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact check<\/strong>: Neither Clinton nor Harris will ever be elected president of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of Americans said they have &#8220;doubts&#8221; about\u00a0President Joe Biden&#8217;s mental fitness, while nearly two-thirds said he might be &#8220;too old&#8221; to be president, according to a recently published<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}