Only 1 in 4 voters believe President Biden could stay AWAKE during another Cuban Missile Crisis, nearly half fear his age increases the chances of an attack

The fate of the world hung in the balance for 13 days. JFK had imposed a blockade on Cuba after spying revealed that a Soviet missile site was being built on the communist island in 1962.

War was only averted when Moscow turned back its ships, cementing Kennedy’s image as a decisive leader who confronted the Soviet Union.

It had been an exhausting experience. As First Lady Jackie Kennedy later said, “There seemed to be no way to wake up or sleep.”

But now only one in four voters believe President Joe Biden has the stamina to do the same and stay awake for 48 hours during a similar crisis, according to a new DailyMail.com poll.

Voters were found to be more concerned that their advanced age will affect their ability to do their job since we last asked the question in March.

And it comes as he is under intense pressure to drop the Democratic presidential nomination after a disastrous presidential debate with Donald Trump in Atlanta, Georgia.

This week, Biden even addressed his advanced age during a meeting with Democratic governors.

Sources said he told them his aides would stop scheduling events after 8 p.m. so he could get more sleep.

When JL Partners asked 1,000 likely voters whether they thought Biden could stay in power during a crisis like the Cuban missile crisis, only 24 percent said yes.

Only 38 percent said they believed they could remember the name of a world leader they were speaking to (down from 46 percent in March), and a similar number said they believed they could digest their daily national security briefings (down from 43 percent).

Some 37 percent said they believed they could survive a one-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin (up from 43 percent in March).

And only 35 percent believed they could remember the names of key personnel (compared to 40 percent).

But whoever is sworn in as president in January will face a series of national security crises and growing global uncertainty.

The war in Ukraine is approaching its third anniversary, an increasingly assertive China is flexing its muscles across the Indo-Pacific region, and the Middle East will still be measuring the consequences of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.

The result is that four in 10 likely voters in our survey said they feared Biden’s age would increase the chances of an attack in the United States.

James Johnson, co-founder of JL Partners, said the numbers were dire for Biden.

“What voters look for most in their politicians is strength: strength to defend America, strength to confront America’s adversaries, strength to get things done at the national level,” he said.

‘Biden was already performing poorly on that metric and now he’s performing catastrophically.

‘It has diverted attention from Trump’s conviction and completely blunted any negative effects from it. Biden’s strategic goal – to remind voters of Trump’s negative aspects after the conviction and after the debate – has failed.

“If voters believe you can’t do the job, nothing matters, not even the unpopularity of your opponent.”

The results of the online survey were supplemented by a survey of 1,000 potential voters that included telephone calls.

It showed Trump has widened his lead over Biden from four percentage points in March to six points now.