Fact check: Biden on Morning Joe says "average voter" wants him to stay in race

• "I wanted to make sure I was right that the average voter out there still wanted Joe Biden," Biden said in a phone interview on MSNBC'S "Morning Joe."
• "And I'm confident they do."

By the numbers: 60% of voters in a Morning Consult poll said Biden should "definitely" or "probably" be replaced as the Democratic presidential candidate.

• A recent CBS News poll found that 72% of registered voters said Biden should not run for president.
• That's up from 63% in February.

Among Democrats, 46% said Biden should not run, per CBS — up 10 percentage points — while 54% said they supported his bid.

• "All the data shows that the average Democrat out there who voted, the 14 million of them that voted for me, still want me to be the nominee," Biden also said Monday.
• However, Biden only faced a token Democratic primary challenge from long shot candidate Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips.

Yes, but: 45% of Democratic voters said Biden should be replaced with another Democrat, per polling from Florida Atlantic University's Political Communication and Public Opinion Research Lab.

• That's compared to 40% of Democrats who want him to stay in the race, the poll found.

• The Biden campaign declined to comment on the record to Axios.

State of play: Former President Trump is leading Biden by his largest margin yet, per CNN's aggregate of national polls.

• At this point in 2020, Biden led by 9 percentage points. At his worst position in 2020, he was still up by 4 points.
• Trump now leads Biden by 3 percentage points.

The big picture: Biden's debate flop in late June exacerbated concerns among voters, lawmakers and donors about his age and electability.

• No party in modern U.S. history has ever tried to forcibly replace its presidential nominee, but some potential candidates have emerged.

Go deeper: Biden's team faces a tough, pivotal week in D.C.