Nearly 7 in 10 voters say after debate debacle Biden should step aside: poll

President Biden should step aside and not seek re-election in 2024, an overwhelming majority of voters say in a new poll.

A CBS News/YouGov survey released Wednesday shows a whopping 69% of registered voters think Biden, 81, should not still be running after his disastrous June 27 war of words with former President Donald Trump in Atlanta.

Roughly the same percentage of male (68%), female (70%), white (74%) and Hispanic (66%) voters say Biden should not be on the Democratic ticket.

A staggering 78% of independent voters also want the president to bow out.

But 59% of Democratic voters and 58% of black voters want the oldest-ever president to stay in the race.

Notably, a majority of Democratic voters said neither Trump (62%) nor Biden (60%) could be described as “energetic” following the debate.

A majority of voters (53%) surveyed also said the verbal sparring match made them think “worse” of Bide — including 28% of Democrats.

Just 21% of Democratic voters said they thought “better” of their incumbent after the debate.

Most voters said their view of Trump remained unchanged (48%), while 27% said they thought “worse” of the 78-year-old Republican candidate and 25% said they thought “better.”

The debate did not change the baseline motivation for a majority of voters (51%) to head to the polls on Election Day.

More than half (53%) of GOP voters also said they were “more motivated” to turn out — the only demographic whose opinion swung that way.

Overall, the race has shifted in Trump’s favor since the debate, with 50% of likely voters nationwide now saying they would vote for the former president if the general election were held today — and 51% of likely voters in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin saying the same.

Just 48% of likely voters said they would vote for Biden, both nationwide and in those battleground states, a two-percentage-point decrease from last month.

In a hypothetical five-way race with other candidates, Trump still leads with 44% of likely voters saying they would cast their ballots for him and 40% saying they would vote for Biden.

Just 11% would vote for independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 3% would vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein and 2% would vote for independent candidate Cornel West.

Biden is expected to face calls from around two dozen House Democrats on Wednesday to drop out after a handful came forward the day before to declare his re-election effort dead and demand he step aside.

The 25 House Democrats who serve in competitive districts may write a letter to Biden urging him to consider the latter option.

Democratic leaders in Congress have yet to speak with the president about his flailing 2024 campaign, a senior congressional aide told The Post on Tuesday, but the White House has indicated there will be upcoming meetings.

Should Biden step down, only Vice President Kamala Harris could inherit their joint campaign’s war chest of $240 million — but that hasn’t stopped Democratic strategists from scheming about a slate of blue-state governors stepping up.

A group of them, led by Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will speak with Biden Wednesday evening to air concerns about his performance against Trump last Thursday.

The CBS News/YouGov poll was conducted from June 28 to July 2 and surveyed 2,826 registered voters nationwide with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.