A major Times poll has found that voters’ doubts about President Biden deepened after his poor performance in the first debate, with Donald J. Trump taking by far his biggest lead of the campaign. Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for The Times, explains what those results could mean for Mr. Biden’s future. Guest: Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for The New York Times.
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A major Times poll finds that since President Biden's poor performance in the first presidential debate, voters doubts about his mental fitness have deepened and Donald Trump has taken by far his biggest lead of the campaign.
I spoke with my colleague Shane Goldmacher about what the results could mean for Bidens future.
Its Thursday, July 4.
Shane, thank you for coming on with not a ton of notice on a very busy day for you.
Happy to be on.
We don't normally publish an episode on a national holiday July 4, but we felt the results of this poll were significant enough and newsworthy enough that it was worth departing from that tradition.
I mean, in the time that I've been to the times and covering our polls, this has been by far the most anticipated poll that we've put out.
And the reason it's so anticipated is that tens of millions of Americans watched the debate last week.
And one of the biggest questions about Joe Biden's political future has been how did voters actually process what they saw on stage?
Right?
What did they make of a democratic nominee struggling openly at times to be coherent, to offer cogent answers?