Nidhi Razdan: Is a second term possible for Joe Biden as US President?

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00:00We are about a year or so from the US presidential election, an election that the whole world

00:08is closely watching. And increasingly, Democrats are beginning to ask, is Joe Biden really

00:15their best bet? This is simply because latest polls show that President Biden's approval

00:21ratings are not as high as they should be. In fact, they're pretty low. On top of that,

00:27in a head-to-head contest with Donald Trump, he's actually trailing Donald Trump at the

00:31moment as far as latest polls are concerned. This primarily has to do with his handling

00:36of the economy and with his own age and health. There are many Americans who today wonder

00:42whether President Biden, who is currently 80 years old, will really be able to take

00:47on four more years in the White House and the kind of exhausting schedule that it demands.

00:54At the same time, the age difference between him and Trump really isn't much, just three

00:58years or so. And yet Trump is seen as someone who, at least amongst these surveys, appears

01:04to be tougher on issues that Americans care about. So the question that the Democrats

01:10are now asking is that while their leadership may be backing Joe Biden all the way, their

01:15grassroots carder perhaps not so much. They're wary about how this US presidential contest

01:21will play out. Although Biden's supporters say that Obama too had low approval ratings

01:26in the year before the election and there's still a long way to go, we'll have to see

01:31how it plays out.