Sins of the son hit Biden in polls
WASHINGTON: Revelations about his son’s dodgy business deals when he was vice president appear to have put a dent in Joe Biden’s lead over Donald Trump in new polling.
With just over two weeks until election day, Mr Biden dropped two points as Mr Trump increased a point over the past week, according to a national tracking poll released yesterday by IBD/TIPP.
While Mr Biden was still ahead 7.1 points, the poll also looked at the phenomenon of “secret Trump voters” — which some pundits believe was a key demographic in 2016 that included people worried they would be shamed publicly for voting for the reality TV star turned politician.
Almost half (47 per cent) of respondents believed they were surrounded by Trump voters, while just over a third said they believed their neighbours would vote Democrat.
At the second of two rallies Mr Trump held in Michigan and Wisconsin, Mr Trump gave a nod to these Americans.
“It’s going to be a wave, it’s gonna be a wave like nobody has ever seen,” Mr Trump said.
Responding to early voting, which is at record levels this year due to COVID concerns, Mr Trump said internal polling put him in a strong position.
“In Michigan a strange thing has happened. We are leading substantially in early voting,” he said to cheers.
“Something’s happening out there. Take a look at this crowd! We win Wisconsin we win the whole ballgame.”
He also continued his attacks on Mr Biden amid a series of exposes that depicted his son Hunter trading on his father’s name to make millions from foreign entities in Russia, China and Ukraine while he was Barack Obama’s VP.
“He’s a national security risk,” he said of Mr Biden.