President Joe Biden’s age problem isn’t just that he is old and at times unable to string together coherent sentences. His problem is also that he has been in politics since the 1970s.
CNN’s Harry Enten highlighted that Biden won voters between the ages of 18-24 in the 2020 election by 32 points, but his polling lead among that demographic is now just 7 points. According to him, former President Donald Trump’s polling among that age demographic would be the best GOP performance “among this group this century.”
Why? Because 65% of voters aged 18-29 in battleground states want a candidate who will “bring major change” to the country, while just 29% want one who will “restore normalcy” to Washington, D.C. It is not a surprise when Biden’s approval rating is in the gutter and his economy is suffocating voters that even a reliably Democratic demographic of young people wants to shake things up.
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Biden’s problem isn’t just that he is the incumbent when young people want change, though. Biden was a senator serving in Washington from 1973 to 2009 and the vice president from 2009 to 2017. In total, his time as senator, vice president, and now president adds up to 48 years. You would have to be around 60 years old to remember a Washington that did not include Joe Biden. He cannot bring “major change” to the country in a way that changes people’s lives for the better. If he could, you would think he would have done it at some point in those 48 years in office.
This is Biden’s problem, and it is the big reason why being the incumbent is a disadvantage to him rather than the advantage you would normally assume it to be. In 2020, supporters could at least claim that Biden was an unknown commodity as a potential president. Now that voters have seen that a Biden presidency looks like you would expect it to look after those other 44 years of Biden in Washington, it only cements the determination that they want anyone different, potentially even the last guy they kicked to the curb.