Should the Democrats find a way to kick Joe Biden off the top of the party’s 2024 presidential ticket? A recent Lord Ashcroft survey says that if the Democrats wish to retain the White House, they’d better. The online survey of 10,192 registered American voters occurred on January 17-28.
Analysis by former Conservative deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft, shared with The Mail on Sunday, puts 81-year-old Biden, who is running for re-election as President in November, on 40 per cent among US voters, the same as Trump.
But when the voters are offered a choice between Trump, 77, the frontrunner to be his Republican challenger, and ‘a Democrat other than Joe Biden’, the notional candidate leads by six points. Biden would beat Nikki Haley, Trump’s last-remaining rival for the Republican nomination, by 11 points.
Even though the two men are tied in the 10,000-sample poll, the American…
