A majority of voters believe both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are too old to be elected to second terms, according to a new poll.
Coming on the heels of special counsel Robert Hur’s report detailing diminished mental capacity for Biden, whom he said had a “significantly limited” memory, 59% of voters said both leaders were too old for office, according to an ABC News-Ipsos poll released Sunday.
Twenty-seven percent of voters said they believe only Biden, 81, and not Trump, 77, is too old to serve as commander in chief, while only 3% said the same of Trump. Eleven percent said neither is too old.
When taking political affiliation into account, 62% of Republicans said only Biden is too old, while the vast majority of Democrats and independents, 69% and 70%, respectively, said both are too old.
People are also divided on how to interpret the Hur report, which concluded that the president had mishandled classified materials but did not bring criminal charges on the matter, according to the poll. The plurality of the public disagreed with Hur’s move not to charge Biden, with 38% saying charges should have been pursued. Thirty-four percent, however, agreed with not charging Biden, and 28% were unsure.
Separately, 66% of those polled said Trump should not be immune from criminal prosecution for actions he took as president, as his legal defense has attempted to claim. Last week, an appeals court rejected the former president’s argument.
“We cannot accept former President Trump’s claim that a President has unbounded authority to commit crimes that would neutralize the most fundamental check on executive power — the recognition and implementation of election results,” a three-judge panel in the D.C. Circuit wrote. “Nor can we sanction his apparent contention that the Executive has carte blanche to violate the rights of individual citizens to vote and to have their votes count.”
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Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said Trump plans to appeal the decision.
The poll was conducted from Feb. 9-10 and used a nationally representative sample of 528 adults.
