Famed Pollster Says Biden Isn’t Competent to Be President, Should Resign

Election pollster and analyst Nate Silver argued that there’s no “particular reason to assume Biden is competent to be president right now” and urged him to step down on Wednesday.

Silver’s comments followed a Washington Post report highlighting President Biden’s lack of press engagement during his recent trip to Brazil for the G20 summit.

“President Joe Biden was in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, unprotected from mosquitoes, fire ants, and loud, squawking macaws. But there was another pest he did manage to avoid: the pack of reporters traveling with him,” the Post observed.

“During a six-day foreign trip to Peru and Brazil that wrapped up Monday, the president rarely spoke in public, answering almost no questions despite repeated efforts to engage him. One television producer took to writing messages on a large pad of paper, holding it up as Biden boarded and departed Air Force One,” the report continued.

Silver pointed to these details as further evidence that Biden might not be capable of leading the nation, particularly with only about two months left in his term.

“Is there any particular reason to assume Biden is competent to be president right now? It’s a very difficult job. It’s a dangerous world. Extremely high-stakes decisions in Ukraine. He should resign and let Harris serve out the last 2 months,” Silver posted on X on Wednesday.

Silver has previously suggested that Biden might need to step aside for another candidate. In July, after Biden’s poorly received interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC, Silver openly called for his resignation.

“I wimped out in today’s column and deleted a line saying he should formulate a plan to transition the presidency to Harris within 30-60 days, but I’m there now,” Silver stated at the time. “Something is clearly wrong here.”

“The most generous way to put it is that he doesn’t seem in command, and that’s an extremely hard sell when you’re Commander in Chief,” he concluded, predicting that “Democrats will apply incredible amounts of pressure” to push Biden to step down.

Indeed, that pressure materialized. Reports indicated figures such as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and former President Barack Obama played key roles in persuading Biden to end his reelection campaign, particularly after a challenging debate with then-former President Donald Trump in June.

Biden ultimately endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, leaving the Democratic Party with limited alternatives despite concerns about her viability as a candidate.

“…Biden just hit a new all-time low in approval (37.4%) at 538 yesterday. Dropping out would be a big risk. But there’s some threshold below which continuing to run is a bigger risk. Are we there yet? I don’t know. But it’s more than fair to ask,” Silver wrote during the summer. “What’s clearer IMO is that Democrats would have been better served if Biden had decided a year ago not to seek a second term, which would have allowed them to have some semblance of a primary process and give voters a say among the many popular Democrats across the country.”

Republicans, meanwhile, have frequently argued that Biden’s mental fitness has been in question since his 2020 campaign and claim it has steadily declined since. They have also accused Democratic insiders and legacy media of shielding Biden from scrutiny as his capacity to lead allegedly deteriorated.