Biden leads Trump in head-to-head race, new poll finds
By: Rachel Barber (USA TODAY)
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Rachel BarberUSA TODAY
The presidential race between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump is close. The two are neck and neck in an NPR/PBS News Hour/Marist national poll released Thursday.
Biden leads Trump among registered voters 50% to 48% in a head-to-head race, but Trump leads Biden 44% to 40% in a multi-candidate field, according to the poll of 1,261 adults surveyed May 21 through May 23. It found third-party candidates Cornel West and Jill Stein — not Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — are making the difference, pulling support away from Biden.
"Despite Biden's campaign appearances and Trump's court appearances, the contest for president has been and remains tight," Marist Institute for Public Opinion Director Lee M. Miringoff said in a statement. "When it comes to this rematch, it's as if voters are saying, 'tell me something about Biden and Trump, I don't already know.'"
A majority of registered voters reported they were closely paying attention to the presidential election and most said they aren't fans of either candidate. Of those polled, 54% said they have an unfavorable view of Trump and 52% said they have an unfavorable view of Biden.
Most Americans have made up their minds
With five months left to go before the November election, 66% of voters surveyed said they already know how they will vote and that nothing will change their mind.
Despite following Trump's criminal "hush money" trial in New York, the poll found 67% of registered voters said a guilty verdict would make no difference in the way they will vote.
Only 7% of those polled said they don't know who they will vote for and 25% said they have a "good idea" but could change their mind. Of voters who said they definitely plan to vote in November, 73% reported they are certain who they will support.
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Single digits you say....................HAHAHA
In real life both poll about 44% and just like in 2020 the undecideds will break heavily for continuiy, stability and sanity, for Joe Biden!
I see it's tell a joke day.
Sanity of Traitor Joe Biden?
Stability of Traitor Joe Biden?
"Continuiy" of Traitor Joe Biden?
What planet are you living on? Shirley you jest!
Take that to the bank.............and lose your shirt
Then it is a good thing Biden has a billion dollars of pre-paid prime advertising and Trump has his billion dollars of lawyer's bills!
You hope.
At this point in the 2020 elections, Biden in national polling held the lead at 49.2% and Trump was at 42.9%. That's a 6.2% lead for Biden.
National : President: general election : 2020 Polls | FiveThirtyEight
Today Trump holds a small lead over Biden in the same poll. Trump is at 41.3% while Biden is at 39.3% or a 2% lead for Trump.
National : President: general election : 2024 Polls | FiveThirtyEight
However I don't hold a lot of faith in how much a national poll can tell about an election that's five months away. First most states have a candidate already baked in due to the population layout as well as how the majority party has gerrymandered the state. Secondly, five months can be a lifetime in an election. Much of anything could happen that can change the future votes.
What's more telling at this point is that Trump is leading in the polls in almost all battleground states and appears to be losing large chunks of groups who did vote for him in 2020. How this will all play out we have to wait and see, but it's a completely different political world than we saw in 2020.
That is what we want you to believe! Good! It is working...
Yeah, trump has never polled this well in the general election, and both times he over performed the final polling numbers when the votes were counted.
That is what we want you to believe! Good! It is working.
You want the president to appear unpopular and electorally weak?
what a bizarre thing to claim,
I am confident President Biden will whoop Trump, again!
Hey, Democrats, listen up. You're problem ain't Donald Trump. You've made the case that Trump is a despicable human being that will cause the collapse of modern civilization.
And Joe Biden is struggling? Really? Who is going to believe anything Democrats tell them after Joe Biden?
[✘] You know them. They are the ones that have been crying since 2016 election.
Man, how fucked are democrats going to feel if they lose to a convicted felon?
None of this sounds good for Trump. Its going to be very difficult for him to persuade undecided voters at this point.
If 34 percent arent sure who theyre going to vote for I would say Trump is in trouble.
Biden is the incumbent. It’s just as east, and the conventional wisdom, to argue that Undecideds are bad for the incumbent