Fifty-two percent of Americans think Biden must go now
A majority of Americans think Joe Biden should step down as president, according to new polling.
The Rasmussen poll, released on Friday, shows that over three-quarters of respondents, 76%, believed Biden was right to remove himself from the 2024 presidential race. Just 18% said this was the wrong choice.
Fifty-two percent of Americans also said Biden should resign the presidency instead of completing his full term.
Respondents were also asked “Will Joe Biden be remembered by most Americans as a great president, a good president, a bad president, or the worst president ever?” The largest number of respondents, 29%, chose “the worst president ever,” with a further 21% saying “a bad president.”
The survey was put to 1,074 voters between 22 and 24 July.
Further details of the circumstances behind Biden’s shocking withdrawal from the presidential race have begun to emerge. Yesterday, Infowars reported Seymour Hersch’s claim that Biden was forced out of the race when Obama and Kamala Harris invoked the possibility of using the 25th Amendment to remove him.
“By Saturday, July 20, former President Barack Obama was deeply involved, and there was talk that he would place a call to Biden,” Hersch explained on his Substack. He described how a well-placed official told him that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries plotted with Obama to invoke the 25th Amendment, leading to a phone call with Biden in which the former president said, “Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment.”
Hersch added that it was always the plan for Kamala to get the endorsement as the new presidential candidate, but that the Obamas would not provide their endorsement straight away. The Obamas waited until 26 July to endorse the Vice President.
“The official, who has decades of experience in fundraising, told me that [Barack] Obama emerged as the strongman throughout the negotiations. ‘He had an agenda and he wanted to seek it through to the end, and he wanted to have control over who would be elected.’”
