Posted on 07/03/2024 7:36:45 PM PDT by Libloather
Most voters believe Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance on Thursday was not caused by a cold or too much preparation, but by dementia.
That is one of the most damning findings in an exclusive national poll for DailyMail.com.
Only 10 percent of respondents accepted the White House's excuse that a cold was to blame for the President struggling to answer questions or hold his train of thought during a 90-minute showdown with Donald Trump.
At the same time, it reveals that Trump, 78, has extended his lead over 81-year-old Biden to six points, deepening the crisis facing the president's reelection campaign.
The White House has already had to fend off questions about whether the president is 'disabled' in a sign of how Biden's health moved to the center of the contest this week.
Now with Biden under intense pressure to step aside, our poll reveals how far those health fears have spread.
Some 52 percent of respondents said dementia was the cause, including 17 percent of Democrats and more than half of independents.
'The debate confirmed what voters already feared about Biden—and then some,' said James Johnson, co-founder of J.L. Partners who conducted the poll.
'The finding that 52% of voters think his poor performance was down to dementia is hugely significant: No one is buying Biden's personal excuses or that of his staff. This is something they think is structural and a problem that is not going to go away.
'Majority views involving political figures are not normal in American politics due to high levels of polarization. Biden's health has bucked that: it is now a majority and uniting view that Biden is mentally unwell.'
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He would be a perfect swap, but Kamala is pretty brain dead too. The Democrats like their racist puppets.
We knew Biden was “loosing it” as VP under Obama.
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