{"id":1851440,"date":"2023-02-17T13:34:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1851440"},"modified":"2023-02-17T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:35:10","slug":"just-12-of-dems-say-biden-should-lead-party-top-leaders-say-hes-too-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-12-of-dems-say-biden-should-lead-party-top-leaders-say-hes-too-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Just 12% Of Dems Say Biden Should Lead Party; Top Leaders Say He\u2019s Too Old"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fjust-12-of-dems-say-biden-should-lead-party-top-leaders-say-hes-too-old%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=1851440&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-->\n<p>A simple question was asked of self-identified Democrats in a new poll this week: \u201cWho should lead the Democratic Party?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only 12% said President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Given seven possible answers, including \u201cno one\u201d And \u201cno answer,\u201d House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies was (D-NY), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were all awarded 5%.<\/p>\n<p>The 3% figure was shared by Pete Buttigieg, the Transportation Secretary in trouble, and Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader (D-NY).<\/p>\n<p>But \u201cno answer\u201d And \u201cother response\u201d This was the best result, with 37% &#038; 21% respectively. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnorc.org\/projects\/the-future-for-the-republican-and-democratic-parties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According<\/a> To the AP-NORC Poll.<\/p>\n<p>The survey found a similar result on the other side of the aisle\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Only 20% of Republicans identify themselves as Republicans and believe former President Donald Trump should head the GOP. 22%, however, said Florida governor. Ron DeSantis should lead the GOP. \u201cNo answer\u201d And \u201cother response\u201d They were 34% and 21% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublicans and Democrats alike are expressing concerns about the direction of the parties. Democrats are more optimistic than pessimistic about the future of their party (44% vs 26%), while Republicans are about equally optimistic (38%) and pessimistic (36%) about where their party is headed,\u201d According to the pollsters.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides are not super confident in their party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly 22% of Republicans are very or extremely confident that their party\u2019s leadership represents their values,\u201d According to the pollsters. \u201cFifty-five percent are somewhat confident and 21% are not confident. In contrast, 42% of Democrats are very or extremely confident that the Democratic leadership represents their values, 36% are somewhat confident, and 20% have little or no confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both sides feel Congress is doing a horrible job. \u201conly 19% of adults have a positive view of Congress\u2019 job performance, including 20% of Democrats and 17% of Republicans. Seventy-nine percent disapprove,\u201d A nationwide poll of 1,068 adults revealed this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe public, regardless of party identification, has little optimism about politics in the United States these days,\u201d According to the pollsters. \u201cSixty-three percent are pessimistic about the state of politics, 15% are optimistic, and 21% are neither optimistic nor pessimistic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A new report claims that leaders of the Democratic Party believe Biden is too old for the presidency in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody wants to be the one to do something that would undermine the chances of a Democratic victory in 2024,\u201d Rep. Dean Phillips (D\u2013MN) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/02\/16\/senior-democrats-joe-biden-old-00083129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telled<\/a> POLITICO was the author of this piece, published Thursday. \u201cYet in quiet rooms, the conversation is just the opposite \u2014 we could be at a higher risk if this path is cleared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Martin was one of the few people who would record this statement. \u201cThere was the senator who said few Democrats in the chamber want Biden to run again but that the party had to devise \u2018an alignment of interest\u2019 with the president to get him off the \u2018narcotic\u2019 of the office; there was the governor who mused about just how little campaigning Biden would be able to do; and there was the House member who, after saying that, of course, Democrats should renominate the president told me to turn off my phone and then demanded to know who else was out there and said Harris wasn\u2019t an option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl is a 35-year veteran of politics, having served 12 years as White House correspondent in a national newspaper. He was also the Drudge Report&#8217;s morning editor for four years. Send tips <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"9ff5f0ecfaeff7fceaedf3dffbfef6f3e6e8f6edfab1fcf0f2\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a> Follow him @josephcurl on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll released this week asked self-identified Democrats a simple question: \u201cWho should lead the Democratic Party?\u201d Just 12% said President Joe Biden. Given seven possible answers, including \u201cno one\u201d and \u201cno answer,\u201d House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies (D-NY), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) all received 5%. Embattled Transportation Secretary &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1838981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[11414,3620,3933,5599,6961,5061,4787],"class_list":["post-1851440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-11414","tag-biden","tag-dems","tag-hes","tag-lead","tag-leaders","tag-party"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851440","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1838981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}