A plurality of registered voters say it would be the worst thing that could happen if either Biden or Obama were elected.
Less than half of voters think a second Trump term would be the best thing for the country. 8% of people think the same about a second Biden term.
There was a chance for respondents to say that either president would be mostly bad or mostly good.
The most popular option was the worst thing that could happen.
1, is just the latest in a series of dismal readings of the national mood
When it comes to public perception of Biden, that is the case.
The president's job approval rating has fallen three points in the last three weeks. He is doing a poor job on the economy and inflation. Only 26% of Americans think that Biden is up to the challenges facing the U.S.
Biden is either changing too much about America or not changing it enough, according to most Americans. According to 15%, Biden is changing the United States in the right way.
Only 18% of Americans say yes to the question of whether the president should run again in 2024. More than half of Biden's own voters think he shouldn't. What's the reason? He would be a weaker candidate in 2024 than he was in 2020, according to a majority of them.
At the end of his second term, Biden will be 86 years old, making him the oldest president in US history.
Even though various Democratic leaders seem to be testing the 2024 waters, none have indicated that they will directly challenge the incumbent president in a primary The number of people who would rather see Biden as the nominee is double that.
Democrats would prefer other people. Not the Vice President who tried to get the nomination. Only 30% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents want Harris to be the nominee. More than half of people who are actually registered to vote say someone else.
The marginally younger 76-year-old Trump may appear to be better positioned for another presidential bid, but that is only because Republicans are less willing than Democrats to insult their own party's standard bearer. When asked what the result would be for America if Joe Biden and Donald Trump ran against each other for president again in 2024, almost half of Biden voters said it would be "mostly bad" or "the worst thing that could happen". A plurality of Trump voters think a Trump-Biden sequel would be a good thing, while just 21% think it would be a bad thing.
Biden voters are twice as likely as 2020 Trump voters to say that their guy should run again. The reason is that they are more confident in Trump's strength as a candidate, with just 18% saying the former president would be weaker than he was in 2020, and a full 53% saying he would be the party's strongest candidate next time around. Trump voters are almost three times as likely as Biden voters to say that their party's leading presidential contender would be stronger in 2024.
The new poll contains a number of warning signs for Trump. Despite Biden's glaring vulnerabilities, he still trails Biden 45% to 42% in a head-to-head contest with registered voters. In the wake of the House select committee hearings, a majority of registered voters said that Trump should not be allowed to serve as president again. Biden voters are not unanimous in their support for him, even though Trump voters are not openly critical of his leadership.
A narrow majority of Trump voters still think he would be the GOP's strongest candidate in 2024, but nearly as many of them think he would not be the strongest candidate. Most Republicans and Republican-leaning independents don't want Trump to be the nominee. Only 48% of people choose Trump against someone else, while most choose the unnamed alternative or say they are not sure. Less and less people pick Trump against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The poll went into the field after Schumer and Manchin. The White House announced earlier this week that Ayman al-Zawahri, the leader of al- Qaeda, had been killed in a US drone strike. It is not possible to say how much of this positive news for the president's party will be reflected in the survey results.
It is hard to see any major swings in public opinion because of the entrenched partisanship and gloomy views of the economy. A majority of Americans think the country is in a recession, with another 16% saying we areheading that way. In mid-April, 70% of Americans described the U.S. economy as either fair or poor.
A group of centrist politicians launched a project called forward last week in order to unify the political party for the majority of Americans who want to move past divisiveness and reject extremists.
Even though America's Electoral College and tradition of winner-take-all elections make it nearly impossible for third parties to emerge, that message could be heard by some. Only 16% of Americans think that they are represented well by the Democratic and Republican parties, while 40% think that America needs a new political party that is in the political center between the Democrats and Republicans.
40% want the option to vote for a third-party candidate for president in 2024 who is positioned in the political center between the Democrats and Republicans. Almost 40% of Americans say the same thing about Republican priorities as they do about Democratic ones.
According to those numbers, about 4% of Americans are ready to vote for a third-party centrist in the next presidential election. That is not a reality. Americans who think Democrats are too extreme are not the same people who think Republicans are too extreme. Those who dismiss both Republicans and Democrats as too extreme are few and far between. 8% of Americans fit the bill according to the survey.
The Yahoo News survey used a nationally representative sample of 1,557 US adults to conduct. The sample was weighted according to gender, age, race and education based on the American Community Survey conducted by the US Bureau of the Census. The respondents were selected from the opt-in panel. There is a margin of error.
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