These Voters Supported Biden in 2020. Now They Want a Plan B.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : While two sitting congressional Democrats have called for Biden to step aside, a vast majority of Democratic elected officials rallied to support him this week, even as a new poll by The New York Times and Siena College showed Trump opening a 6-point lead over Biden among likely voters.
49% : "Kamala Harris would carry the torch, and she's better than Trump," Due said.
46% : Melissa Wicksel, 21, of Raleigh, North Carolina, said that defeating Trump was so imperative that Democrats needed to rally around Biden and highlight his policy achievements.
44% : "Liz Purvis, the chair of the Granville County Democratic Party in North Carolina, a purple county that Trump won in 2020, said her thought on the intraparty debate right now is simple: "Straight up, I think sticking with Biden is the right call.""With the money they've raised, and the organizing power that the coordinated campaign is doing, our smoothest road toward a Democratic victory feels to me like it runs through a Biden campaign," Purvis said.
41% : But he also said he thought Biden should ease out of the race to avoid a loss to Trump.
35% : But others worried she could not match Trump and mentioned that the Democratic governors of Michigan or Pennsylvania might be a smarter choice.
30% : They said they viewed Trump as a greater threat to democracy, women's rights and the future of the world than Biden, who would be 86 at the end of second term.
28% : They also said that they believed that Trump, 78, was not mentally equipped to serve another four years.
19% : "Because I think Trump really represents a terrible, terrible threat to our democracy.

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