US: Michelle Obama top contender to replace Joe Biden as presidential candidate

According to a survey, Michelle Obama, the former first lady of the United States, is the front-runner to succeed President Joe Biden as the Democratic party’s presidential nominee.

In the Rasmussen Reports polls, nearly half of the Democratic voters stated that they would like someone other than Joe Biden to run for US President.

When asked if they were in favor of the party “finding another candidate to replace Joe Biden before the election in November,” 48% of Democrats responded in the affirmative, while 38% disagreed. Merely 33% of Democrats think there will be a change in the ballot.

Michelle Obama received almost twenty percent of the vote among the candidates vying to replace 81-year-old Joe Biden. The other candidates included Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, California Governor Gavin Newsom, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Vice President Kamala Harris.

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About 15% of the vote went to Kamala Harris, while 12% of them supported a rematch between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

There have been some requests for Michelle Obama to think about entering the presidential race.

Obama last month expressed deep fear about the upcoming elections, saying it “haunts” her. “The fact that people think that government-’eh,, does it really even do anything?’ - and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, does government do everything for us, and we cannot take this democracy for granted.’ And I worry sometimes that we do. Those are the things that keep me up,” she had said.

The field for the US election in 2024 has long been known, and a rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden seems very inevitable.

Polls suggest that voters find Biden’s age off-putting, but he insists he is the most qualified candidate.

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Trump, on the other hand, is adamant that he would run in spite of a potential criminal conviction prior to the election, which may result in decades behind bars.

(With agency inputs)