77% of voters in the U.S. agree with the proposal of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley to conduct mandatory mental capacity tests for politicians over the age of 75, cites The Hill in a recent Fox News poll. As the publication notes, Haley’s statement is an obvious attack on current President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, who are now 80 and 76 years old, respectively.
The vast majority of Americans support the proposal of the presidential candidate from the Republican Party Nikki Haley of compulsory verification of mental abilities of politicians over 75 years, writes The Hill with reference to the new survey of public opinion. In a Fox News poll of 1,006 registered voters conducted Feb. 19-22, 77% of participants favored testing for older politicians, while 20% voted against it and 3% refused to take either side.
As the publication explains, Nikki Haley’s call for intelligence tests for older politicians is an obvious attack on acting President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, who are now 80 and 76, respectively. In an interview, Biden said that concerns about his age were “perfectly valid,” but that this parameter would not affect his decision about possible re-election. The newspaper reminds that the current head of the White House is the oldest leader of the United States in history. At the time of taking office, in case of re-election, he will be 82 years old.
The article notes that 43% of Republicans polled also wanted Trump to be the Republican nominee, while 28% supported Florida Governor Ron Desantis, and Haley and former Vice President Mike Pence each received 7%. So far, only Trump and Haley have officially declared their desire to run in the Republican primary, but other of their partymates, including Pence and Desantis, are rumored to be mulling such a move. At the same time, more than half of Democratic voters would like to see someone other than Biden as their party’s nominee, with 44 percent of all respondents approving of his actions as president, The Hill writes.