72% of Americans believe Joe Biden is not healthy enough to be president, and only 59% think the same about Trump.

A whopping 72% of Americans said President Joe Biden is not healthy enough to be president before the 2024 election, and just 59% say the same for Donald Trump in a new poll.

This comes just days after the New York Times and Washington Post both published opinion pieces calling the 80-year-old president, the oldest in American history, too old to run for re-election in 2024.

In fact, only 12% of respondents said they were confident the two likely 2024 frontrunners were healthy enough to run.

Perhaps most shocking is that only seven percent of respondents said they felt Biden and Trump had the mental and cognitive health to serve as president, and 23 percent said neither did. had.

The polls aren’t necessarily good for either candidate: 64% say a Biden/Trump rematch means the political system is broken, and only 8% say both are the better candidates .

However, the news remains much grimmer for Biden, 80, despite being only three years older than Trump.

Only 33% of respondents are confident Biden will make it to the end of a hypothetical second term, while 55% say Trump will live until 2029, according to CBS News.

When focusing on mental and physical health, voters are much more convinced that Trump is fit to serve as president for another term — even if they disagree with his policies.

Only 16% of respondents think Biden is in good enough physical health for another four years as chief executive. But 43% say Trump is in fairly good health.

Last month, another poll found that 77% of Americans think Biden is too old to be elected to a second term.

Trump told former Fox News host Megyn Kelly last week that Biden was not “too old” but was “clearly incompetent.” He later told CBS host Norah O’Donnell in another interview that he would support cognitive testing requirements to run for president.

The CBS/YouGov poll shows that Trump would beat Biden in a presidential election by a single point, with a result of 50 to 49 percent.

However, it also reveals that two-thirds of registered voters believe a Trump vs. Biden rematch in 2024 would prove that the American political system is “broken.”

This comes just days after the New York Times and Washington Post both published opinion pieces calling the 80-year-old president, the oldest in American history, too old to run for re-election in 2024.

Perhaps most shockingly, only seven percent of respondents said they felt both Biden and Trump had the mental and cognitive health to be president, and 23 percent said that neither had one.

A new CBS/YouGOV poll shows that only a third of registered voters believe that if President Joe Biden were re-elected, he would be able to complete a second term.

In addition to concerns over Biden’s age, the president now faces an impeachment inquiry from the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

Trump, by contrast, has been indicted four times this year and will have to testify about his efforts to overturn Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.

There are more than a dozen Republicans vying to take Trump’s place as the GOP nominee in 2024. Among them is 38-year-old Vivek Ramaswamy.

Biden is running virtually unopposed in the primary. Democrats Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson both launched extremely far-reaching attempts to oust the incumbent for the nomination.

Ross Douthat, a conservative columnist for the liberal Times, wrote an article titled “2024’s Field of Nightmares,” a reference to the 1989 film Field of Dreams.

He said that while his concerns about Biden boiled down to run-of-the-mill policy disagreements during his first term, Democrats were playing with fire by allowing the oldest president in American history to run again.

The two risks of a new Biden candidacy, according to Douthat: “The high stakes of the next election, in which a health crisis or simply more slip-ups could be what brings Trump back to the White House, and the different stakes but equally substantial” for another four-year term.

The New York Times and Washington Post published opinion pieces Wednesday calling 80-year-old President Joe Biden too old to run in the 2024 election.

While Douthat argued that, as with Ronald Reagan’s second term — long rumored to have been served while the president was in decline — Biden could “limp to another victory,” he considers the current political era as revealing.

He likened it to liberals praying that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would live long enough to see a Democrat replace her, only to see her die weeks before the election, with Trump able to appoint another justice to the Supreme Court.

‘TThe Trump era has been one of those periods when providence or fate avenges hubris more quickly than usual – where the long-standing freedom enjoyed by American parties and leaders, by virtue of our power and pre-eminence, to circumvent our weak points and errors have been considerably reduced,” he said.

David Ignatius wrote a similar column in the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post with a more direct headline: “President Biden should not run again in 2024.”

Ignatius largely praises Biden’s early years in office, saying the Democrat has “governed from the center out” and done a good job on foreign policy in supporting Ukraine.

However, he says that not only Biden, but also Vice President Kamala Harris, should avoid running in 2024.

“It’s painful to say this, given my admiration for much of what they accomplished. But if he and Harris campaign together in 2024, I think Biden risks destroying his greatest achievement: stopping Trump.

He cited disastrous poll numbers for Biden in terms of approval ratings and public opinion of his age.

The opinion pieces come as Biden faces an impeachment inquiry and recent polls show most view the president as too far gone to serve again.

A Washington Post columnist says not only Biden, but also Vice President Kamala Harris, should avoid running in 2024.

Columnist David Ignatius suggested that US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo replace Harris.

For Harris, he cited “the simple fact is that she has failed to gain traction in the country or even within her own party.”

He even suggested Biden replace Harris on the ticket with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass or Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.

“Right now, there is no clear alternative to Biden – no blatantly obvious replacement waiting in the wings. This could be decisive for Biden, since there is apparently no one else. But perhaps he will trust democracy to discover new leadership “in the arena”.

Although Biden, 80, is only three years older than Donald Trump, 77, there is a 26% margin between those who think Biden is too old and those who think the ex-president is too old to serve another term.