Most voters don’t see Trump and Biden as mentally fit to be president, new poll shows
Most voters don’t see Trump and Biden as mentally fit to be president, new poll shows
PUBLISHED THU, SEP 10 20209:11 AM EDT UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO
Jacob Pramuk@JACOBPRAMUK
KEY POINTS
- A majority of voters in six swing states consider President Trump and Joe Biden mentally unfit to be president, according to a new CNBC/Change Research poll.
- At the same time, most respondents consider both White House hopefuls physically fit for the White House.
- Trump has tried to portray Biden as mentally unfit for the office, while Trump’s doctor has denied speculation that the president suffered a stroke or mini-strokes.
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Joe Biden and Donald Trump
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Most voters in six 2020 swing states do not consider either President Donald Trump or Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden mentally fit to be president, according to a new CNBC/Change Research poll.
The findings in the pivotal states of Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were released Thursday amid a sustained push by the Trump campaign to portray Biden as incapable of handling the demands of office. Most respondents in those states, which will play a huge role in determining the presidential election winner, do not have confidence in Trump’s ability to take on the job, either.
A 51% majority said Trump is mentally unfit to be president, while 49% answered that he is fit to hold the job. A similar share, by a 52% to 48% margin, responded that Biden is mentally unfit to be president.
Voters had more confidence in the presidential hopefuls’ physical fitness to hold the White House. A 52% majority said the 74-year-old Trump is physically fit to be president, and 54% said the same about Biden, who is 77.
The poll, taken Friday through Sunday, surveyed 4,143 likely voters across the six states and has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.4 percentage points. The survey found Biden leading Trump by at least a small margin in all those key states and that most voters disapprove of Trump’s efforts to keep Americans safe.
In a CNBC/Change Research national poll, 55% said Trump was mentally unfit, while 45% said he was fit.
Biden was deemed unfit by 52% and fit by 48%. The survey was conducted with 1,902 likely voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.25 percentage points.
The findings about the candidates’ physical fitness for office follow Trump’s doctor’s recent denial of speculation that the president suffered a stroke, mini-stroke or other heart-related emergency.
Spokesmen for both campaigns did not respond to requests to comment.
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