Joe Biden’s extraordinary decision to not pursue the Democratic nomination for president has upended the 2024 presidential race, with Vice President Kamala Harris emerging as a strong favorite for the Democratic nomination. Here are some of the key public opinion dynamics around Biden’s choice.
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Here are some of the key public opinion dynamics around Joe Biden’s choice to not pursue the Democratic nomination for the 2024 presidential race.
While Latino voters have favored Democratic candidates in presidential elections for many decades, the margin of support has varied.
About eight-in-ten Republican voters (79%) are non-Hispanic White, down from 93% nearly two decades ago.
Majorities of voters express dissatisfaction with the candidates. And 63% of voters describe both Biden and Trump as “embarrassing.”
Given the number of third-party and independent candidates in the 2024, we examined how such candidates fared in past elections.
Most Biden supporters favor a bigger government with a strong social safety net. Trump backers generally take the opposing view.
More than 73 million people watched at least some of the first Trump-Biden debate in 2020, making it the third-largest debate audience ever.
A quarter of Americans hold unfavorable views of both major party candidates – President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
Voters who support Biden and Trump have starkly different opinions on many issues, and these two groups are divided internally as well.
More than half of Americans (58%) say they are following news about candidates for the 2024 presidential election very or fairly closely.
© 2024 Pew Research Center
