A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll confirmed what most viewers sensed after last Thursday’s presidential debate: that it was a disastrous night for the 81-year-old Biden, who looked unsteady, sounded sick, stumbled over his words and, at one point, lost his train of thought entirely.
A full 60% of Americans now say Biden is not “fit to serve another term as president.” Just 24% say he is fit. The president’s fitness rating has been that low only once before, in November 2023, and it has never been worse.
Yet the survey of 1,754 U.S. adults, which was conducted from June 28 to July 1, also shows that Biden (43%) remains statistically tied with Trump (45%), in a head-to-head matchup among registered voters — even after a performance that seemed to substantiate long-standing concerns about the president’s age and competence going forward.
