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After Biden, age will also be a challenge for Trump in the 2024 US election. Kamala Harris is considerably younger. The end for the Republican?
Washington, DC – US President Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 US election because of his age. A new poll shows that age could also cost Republican candidate Donald Trump his victory in the presidential election. One Reuters/According to an Ipsos survey, 53 percent of the US population thinks the former president is too old.
“81 years is not old,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, trying to backtrack on his attacks against Biden. Only Biden is “a bad 81,” said the Republican. But the fact that the former president brought the issue into the election campaign seemed to have already done the damage. The Harris campaign has already made use of the template in the first cases.
Donald Trump is now also in the spotlight because of his age. © picture alliance/dpa/AP | Alex Brandon
Poll shows: Donald Trump’s age also plays a role among Republicans in the 2024 US election
A YouGov poll provided further details on the attitudes of Republican and Democratic voters, with 59 percent of Republican voters saying they would prefer a candidate under 75, 40 percent saying they had no preference, and only 2 percent preferring a president over 75.
According to the survey, 73 percent of Democratic voters prefer a president who is younger than 64 years old. Only 20 percent said they had no preference. This is a clear result in the study, which was conducted with 2,266 US citizens and had a margin of error of about three percent.
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US President Joe Biden gives way to new generation – Kamala Harris significantly younger than Donald Trump
In his statement in the Oval Office, Joe Biden said he wanted to “pass the torch to a new generation.” If Trump were elected to office, he would be older than Biden was after the 2020 US election. According to MSNBC Trump also has health problems, although these do not appear in the Republican’s health certificates.
Vice President and likely opponent Kamala Harris is 59 years old, almost twenty years younger than the 78-year-old Trump. Although the Republican candidate for the vice presidency, JD Vance, is significantly younger at 39, Vance is heavily criticized for a number of other factors. It remains to be seen who Kamala Harris will choose as her candidacy. (list)
