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In a good year and a half, the United States will elect a new president.
Donald Trump, among others, had already announced his candidacy for the Republicans, but things are much quieter in the Democratic camp.
According to a recent survey by the AP news agency and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, it is clear to many Democrats who they do not want to send back to the White House: incumbent President Joe Biden.
According to this, only 37 percent of the party members surveyed are in favor of Biden standing for a second term.
A clear slump: Even before the midterm elections last year, the number of supporters was still 52 percent.
Presidents may be elected to the White House for a maximum of two terms.
The candidates apply early in order to gather support in their party for the actual freestyle as presidential candidate.
Biden himself is flirting with a second term, but has not yet officially announced his renewed candidacy.
Only 22 percent agree
Support for Trump among the population is even lower than that of the Democrats.
Only 22 percent of the US citizens surveyed said that Biden should run again.
Many respondents said the 80-year-old would be too old for a second term to be in the White House.
Biden will address Americans in his State of the Union address on Tuesday.
The Democrat had recently come under pressure.
Military experts and the opposition Republicans had accused him of having ordered the launch of a suspected spy balloon from China too late.
US fighter jets shot down the balloon over the Atlantic on Saturday after the flying object had flown over the United States for several days.
At the beginning of February, Biden was also confronted with another house search in the files affair.
His attorney said federal police were searching Biden's beach house in Delaware for classified files.
Prior to that, classified government documents had been found in his former office and in Biden's private home.
The documents are said to come from Biden's tenure as US Vice President.
According to the law, such documents must be given in full to the National Archives.
The search for documents from President Biden is now being led by a special counsel.
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