Reuters/Ipsos Poll: One in Three Dems Say Biden Should Quit Race

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer sat behind Trump 36% to 41%, while Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker had 34% support compared to Trump's 40%.
35% : California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a rising star in the Democratic Party who many observers expect could seek the presidency in a future election, performed marginally worse, trailing Trump 39% to 42%.
31% : None of the elected Democrats tested in head-to-head matchups against Trump have formally declared their candidacies, and several are barely recognized a national level.
23% : But should he exit, the Democrats whose names emerge as possible replacements perform only as well or worse than Biden against Trump in hypothetical matchups, according to the poll.
20% : One in three Democrats say President Joe Biden should end his reelection bid following last week's debate against Republican Donald Trump, but no prominent elected Democrat does any better than Biden in a hypothetical matchup against Trump, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Tuesday.
18% : Trump faces his own political liabilities, though the criminal cases related to his attempts to overturn his 2020 defeat have ground to a halt.
8% : That Beshear, a relative unknown, trailed Trump by only a narrow margin in the Reuters/Ipsos poll -- 36% to 40% -- illustrated how deeply Democrats oppose Trump.
6% : Among the names of top Democrats put before respondents, only Michelle Obama, wife of former Democratic President Barack Obama, outperformed Biden and led Trump 50% to 39% in a hypothetical matchup.
3% : Vice President Kamala Harris, for example, trailed Trump by one percentage point, 42% to 43%, a difference that was well within the poll's 3.5 percentage point margin of error, making Harris' showing statistically just as strong as Biden's.

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