A majority of Massachusetts Democrats or left-leaning voters say they want President Biden to withdraw from the presidential race, according to a new survey.
The Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll, released Friday, found 64 percent of Democratic or left-leaning voters in the historically progressive state say they want a different candidate to be the top of the ticket in November. Only 29 percent said they were “satisfied” with the incumbent being the nominee.
“What a difference a presidential term makes,” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, in a press release. “It was not even four years ago that candidate Joe Biden came into Massachusetts and beat sitting U.S. [Sen.] Elizabeth Warren [(D-Mass.)] and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders [(I)] in the Democratic Primary without really campaigning in Massachusetts.”
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