President Joe Biden formally announced his reelection campaign for president Tuesday, and a recent poll shows that at least 10 percent of his 2020 voters back one of his primary challengers for the Democratic nomination.
The USA Today/Suffolk University poll, which was released Sunday, found that anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was polling at 14 percent, with Biden at 67 percent. The poll also found that five percent of voters back self-help author Marianne Williamson and 13 percent are undecided. (RELATED: Biden Announces 2024 Run)
I think the press is underestimating the damage RFK Jr. could do to Biden. He’s polling at 14%. If he keeps this up, it’ll matter. No president in the past half-century has won reelection after surviving a primary challenger who got into the double digits. https://t.co/i4BT7G1chu
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) April 25, 2023
The poll surveyed 600 Biden voters between April 15 to 18 with an error margin of four percent, according to USA Today.
Several Republican elected officials responded to the announcement by criticizing Biden.
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott , who recently announced an exploratory committee for his own presidential bid, told Fox News Digital that a second “term would be a disaster for the American people.”
Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin replied to Biden’s announcement on Twitter, which included the slogan “Let’s finish the job,” by asking, “Finish what job, destroying America?”
Finish what job, destroying America? https://t.co/eoBECT6Dsi
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) April 25, 2023
Biden, who is already the oldest president in U.S. history, would be 86 years old by the end of a second term.