Fewer people are buying Team Biden’s efforts to play down reports that he was mentally declining as president, believing instead that his aides and the media engaged in a cover-up to hide his failings.
In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey shared with Secrets Tuesday morning, more likely voters than not believe that Joe Biden entered the presidency already in a mental decline that got worse over time, eventually leading to his eleventh-hour decision to bail out of his reelection campaign.
The pollster said 44% of voters believe that “Joe Biden’s mental condition was already going downhill before he ever got elected in 2020.” Some 41% disagreed.
And 60% believe he would not have been mentally or physically capable of doing his job had he stayed in the 2024 race and beaten President Donald Trump to win a second term.
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Efforts by White House officials to conceal former President Joe Biden’s cognitive impairment constitute a serious scandal, according to a majority of voters who also believe the news media were part… https://t.co/ovUIrc7LBn
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The results follow a flurry of new reports about efforts among Biden aides and the media to hide the truth about the former president’s failings, which were obvious to many. It also comes after Biden said this week that he has prostate cancer.
As a result, the public appears angry and not willing to give the president, his team, or the media the benefit of the doubt on charges that they engaged in a cover-up to hide his mental and physical conditions from the public last year.
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Rasmussen, for example, found that 72% believe the cover-up is a serious scandal. That includes 60% of Democratic voters and 71% of independent voters.
In addition to blaming Biden’s staff, his allies in the media are also taking a big hit. The pollster said 63% believe the media “were aware of Joe Biden’s declining mental condition, but chose to help cover it up.”