In a recent interview, President Joe Biden reportedly stated that he would have defeated President-elect Donald Trump, but he also acknowledged that he is unsure if he would have had the “vigor” to serve an additional four years in the White House.
When asked if he could have won reelection, Biden responded in the affirmative, citing polling he examined to support his own candidacy in an interview with Susan Page for USA Today that was released on Wednesday.
“It’s presumptuous to say that, but I think yes based on the polling,” Biden said incredibly.
Many analysts doubt that Biden could have won another term, and his brief run for reelection before abandoning it and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris created many doubts about his “fitness” to serve in the first place. Biden is eighty-two years old.
Biden was trailing Trump in a New York Times/Siena College survey just days before he withdrew from the campaign, though it’s unclear what exact polling he was examining.
More than 70% of respondents to that poll, which was conducted following the first presidential debate, believed Biden was too old to be president.
Biden’s 43% rating fell short of Trump’s 49% among potential voters. With Biden receiving 41% of the vote compared to Trump’s 49%, that percentage increased among registered voters.
In the interview, Biden also asserted that, in sharp contrast to how Trump portrays the present administration in public, Trump actually praised him on his “good record” and the economy during their private meeting.
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