Doubts have grown over Biden's mental fitness: Poll

Voters' doubts astir President Biden’s fittingness to service successful the Oval Office person grown implicit the past fewer months, according to a caller canvass released Monday amid the fallout from his shaky statement performance past week.

The latest Harvard CAPS-Harris survey, released exclusively to The Hill, recovered that 66 percent of respondents said they “have doubts” astir Biden’s “fitness," an summation from erstwhile the canvass was past conducted successful May, erstwhile 54 percent of respondents said they had doubts. Meanwhile, 34 percent said helium is “mentally fit,” and 74 percent said Biden is “showing helium is excessively old” to beryllium president. Only 26 percent said helium is “showing helium is fit” to beryllium president. 

The canvass recovered that 61 percent of voters said “electing a president who raises questions astir age, failing memory, oregon lapsed concentration” is “dangerous for the country.” Thirty-nine percent of voters said “the fears are overblown politically." 

“Seventy percent of voters person already decided who they volition backmost successful November,” said Mark Penn, the co-director of the Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll. 

“We saw a crisp leap successful interest implicit Biden’s property and his fittingness for different word — including astir fractional of Democrats,” helium said. 

The findings travel conscionable days aft the archetypal statesmanlike statement of the rhythm betwixt Biden and Trump. Despite Trump’s critics pointing retired inaccuracies and falsehoods helium voiced during his statement performance, Biden’s shaky show has received the brunt of the criticism. The president appeared to stumble and conflict to signifier coherent sentences astatine times during the debate. The canvass was conducted aft the debate, June 28-30. 

Fifty-two percent of voters said they believed Trump had the champion statement performance, portion 22 percent said the aforesaid astir Biden. Another 26 percent said they were undecided. 

However, the equine contention betwixt Biden and Trump fundamentally remains unchanged aft the debate. When undecided voters are included, Trump leads Biden 49 percent enactment to 43 percent. In May, the canvass recovered Trump starring Biden 47 percent to 41 percent. 

In a head-to-head without undecided voters included, the latest canvass shows Trump starring Biden 52 percent enactment to 48 percent. In May, the canvass recovered Trump starring Biden 53 to 47 percent. 

The canvass was conducted Jan. 28-30 among 2,090 registered voters by the Harris Poll and HarrisX. Results were weighted for property wrong gender, region, race/ethnicity, marital status, household size, income, employment, education, governmental party, and governmental ideology wherever indispensable to align them with their existent proportions successful the population.