In a recent Morning Consult polls, responders were asked a series of questions that outlined their views on Donald Trump’s fitness for the presidency.
And while he’s not completely underwater yet, the numbers aren’t good. The perception of his age, his health, and his mental fitness for the job have all fallen since Joe dropped out of the race.
That stands to reason, since Trump no longer has someone older than him to be compared with.
According to the poll, voters who believe he’s in “good health” has dropped by 6 percent since Joe’s departure. That’s down to 52 percent from 58 percent. More than half now say he’s too old, with a spike of 7 percent since that same time.
Even his mental fitness results from the poll have him under the halfway mark, dropping 5 percent to just 48 percent of voters believing his brain still works right.
Indeed, Morning Consult’s Eli Yokley, in his analysis of the polling data, said “Not surprisingly, Harris’ replacement of Biden has now erased the Democratic Party’s age problem with the American electorate. That burden has now shifted to Trump.”
Unfortunately for the former president, this development was pretty well expected.
After all, he has nearly 20 years on his new opponent. The GOP spent literally all of their time and money harping away at Joe Biden, and how his age, health, and mental fitness were not suitable for the presidency.
Now Trump is that guy his party was talking about the whole time.
Of course, it’s not like he wasn’t the whole time. There was never a point at which Trump was any less likely to say something dumb than Joe. Most often, in fact, he was MORE likely to make a gaffe. The man speaks at a 5th-grade level.
He regularly mixes up not just world leaders, but even American politicians, and sometimes he makes up whole countries.
That can’t be good for a guy who’s, you know, president of the United States. It’s small wonder that even some of his supporters are making their way into the Kamala camp.
Trump was able to dodge a bullet, so to speak, while Joe was in the race. Now his favorability is lasting about as long as people’s memories of the actual bullet that missed him a few weeks ago.
