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Following rumors that President Joe Biden plans to run for reelection in 2024, a new poll shows that most Democrats do not support this move. Meanwhile, the president's latest approval rating is near 30%-- a new record low-- and his net approval in North Carolina is negative.

"President Biden is hemorrhaging support, with only 26% of Democratic voters saying the party should renominate him in 2024,” a New York Times/Siena College poll found. “Voters nationwide gave him a meager 33% job approval rating," the New York Times said in a tweet July 11.

A whopping 64% of Democratic voters do not want Biden to run again in 2024, citing his age as the most important reason, the NYT poll stated. The poll, which was conducted July 5-7, surveyed 849 registered voters nationwide and found that only 13% of Americans believe the country is headed in the right direction. Only 26% of Democrat voters said that the party should renominate Biden in 2024.                

White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, said in June that Biden will be running for reelection in 2024, Fox News reported. Biden, who at 79 is the oldest serving president in American history, will be 82 at the start of his second term, if he were to win the presidential election.

Biden has acknowledged that he plans on running for reelection "if I’m in good health," Fox News reported.

Biden's leadership has been criticized for months, with many Americans continuing to disapprove of his job performance. The latest New York Times/Siena College poll revealed the president's approval rating is now at 33%. With more than three-quarters of registered voters seeing the United States moving in the wrong direction.

The New York Times reports that the "pessimism spans every corner of the country, every age range and racial group, cities, suburbs and rural areas, as well as both political parties." In April, the Hill reported that, Biden told former President Barack Obama he planned to run for reelection in 2024.

More than two-thirds of independents disapprove of Biden's performance, while nearly half strongly disapprove, the New York Times reported. Among fellow Democrats, the president's approval rating stands at 70%, which is "a relatively low figure for a president."                 

At the end of April, Morning Consult Political Intelligence quarterly tracking in every state reported that most voters disapprove of Biden’s job performance in 40 states, including North Carolina. This news came after the nation saw double-digit declines in the president's net approval rating — the share of voters who approve minus the share who disapprove — since he took office in January 2021.               

In North Carolina, Biden had a net approval rating of -11 after the first quarter of 2022, according to Morning Consult.