Donald Trump Leads Joe Biden By Two Points Across Six Battleground States
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UP NEXT President Donald Trump is leading Joe Biden by two points in six battlegrounds states, a new poll has found.
The latest survey by Change Research and CNBC revealed that 47 percent of likely voters in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin would back the commander-in-chief if an election were held the same day.
By comparison, 45 percent told pollsters they would opt for former Vice President Biden. A further 4 percent said they would back a third-party candidate while 3 percent were unsure who they would back in November.
When the hypothetical ballot was whittled down to a simple head-to-head between Trump and Biden, the president had a three-point lead among battleground state voters.
President Trump's lead over the presumptive Democratic nominee in key swing states came in spite of disapproval over his handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Forty-eight percent of those polled said they either "strongly" or "somewhat" approved of the commander-in-chief's handling of the COVID-19 outbreak, compared to 52 percent who disapproved.
But his approval rating on the issue was still better than that of Congress, with seven-in-ten of the swing state voters telling pollsters they disapproved of Congress' reaction to the pandemic.
Asked who they believed President Trump favored most with his economic responses to the pandemic, half of voters told pollsters that the policies favored the wealthy and big corporations.
A little more than one-in-five (21 percent) said Trump's bailouts favored the middle class and small businesses, while roughly a quarter (24 percent) said they favored both groups equally.
Giving an overall rating of the U.S. economy, 24 percent said it was in either an "excellent" or "good" state. The remaining 76 percent rated it as "not so good" or "poor."
A similar number (71 percent) told pollsters they thought the economy was either "probably" or "definitely" in the midst of a recession.
Asked what they thought of President Trump's general performance in the White House, 49 percent said they approved of the job he was doing while 51 percent disapproved.
Change Research pollsters surveyed 3,544 likely voters across the six battleground states between May 1 and May 3. The poll's margin of error is 1.6 percentage points.
At the 2016 presidential election, President Trump won Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin within a percentage point of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
His victories in the other three states polled by Change Research were slightly wider. Trump beat Clinton by 1.2, 3.5 and 3.6 points in Florida, Arizona and North Carolina respectively.
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I know some folks here still put a whole lot of stock in polls, so enjoy!
Enjoy those polls. Meantime, Lincoln Project will spend the spring and summer defining Trump's abject failures for all the world to see. And women will put that final nail in his political coffin in the end. Go check out those polls.
Sorry, I don't put much stock into political polls. But feel free to!
Yes, yes, yes, Hillary is a shoo-in, Trump has NO path to 270, and all is right in the Democratic Party, right?
LOL!
everyone ignored those never trumpers in 2016.
why would anyone suddenly start caring what they said?
the lincoln project will... waste their time and money.
Hey, XD - check this out (Wiki, but verified by NYT and WaPo) ...
Just another bunch of Never-Trumpers.
Women are not as stupid as you seem to think. Biden has no credibility at all at anything.
By election day the economy will be recovering and the pandemic situation will be improving.
The Democrat politicians who have put 33,000,000 people out of work will be voted out.
It's 179 days until Election Day, and Biden doesn't even have a campaign message yet.
I heard he was tossing around Dogface pony soldiers as his battle cry.
Trump will win in a landslide in November.
that is outrageous....
And this is while Biden's been hiding in his basement, banking on nostalgia. Can't get away with that til November
polls, lies and statistics.........../s
Four more years!
...and anyone who even remotely believes that mail-in voting can be done fairly is either really stupid or obtuse to the notion that a signed blank ballot can be strong-armed or bought for a loosey.
Republicans are mostly old, and they often rely on voting by mail. The gop loved it until democrats joined them. Makes one wonder what kind of fraud they were perpetrating since they are always projecting their misdeeds on to others.
“Republicans are mostly old,”
you know the old saying, with age comes wisdom. 😀
The average Republican is 50, while the average Democrat is 47.
Or confusion and dementia.
That comes with being a secular progressive