Half of voters say Trump, 78, is too old to run as president as his age hits the spotlight

The number of voters who think that 78-year-old Donald Trump is in good health is dropping and the number who believe he’s too old to run for president is increasing, a new poll shows.

This comes after 81-year-old President Joe Biden’s departure from the race and his replacement atop the Democratic ticket with Vice President Kamala Harris, 59. On Tuesday, Harris revealed her running mate Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, 60, during a raucous rally in Philadelphia.

A new Morning Consult poll juxtaposed the results from when Biden was still the presumptive nominee. When Trump was running against Biden, 58 percent believed the former president was in “good health” – that number is down to 52 percent now that he’s campaigning against Harris.

More than half – 51 percent – of respondents in the poll, which surveyed 2,200 registered voters, said that Trump is now too old to run, compared to 44 percent who said so when he was running against Biden.

Similarly, the number of voters who believe Trump is mentally fit for the office has gone from 53 to 48 percent, a five-point decrease, as his opponent has changed.

Trump has now become the oldest-ever candidate for US president and would become the oldest-ever sitting president, a title currently held by Biden, if he wins a second term. Biden has long faced concerns about his age, but those worries were turbocharged after his disastrous debate performance on June 27.

Trump is only three years Biden’s junior but hasn’t faced the same level of scrutiny when it comes to his age, despite his similarly gaffe-prone nature.

The nomination of Harris has now shifted the concerns about the candidates’ age to the Republicans.

Seventy-one percent of voters said Harris is in good