Poll predicts Trump loss in 2020
■ 47% respondents hold strongly unfavourable view of Prez
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov. 13: A new poll has claimed that US President Donald Trump would lose the 2020 Presidential election if he is opposed by female candidates, including Michelle Obama, Elizabeth Warren and even Oprah Winfrey.
The Axios poll suggested that Hillary Clinton would beat the Republican by six points, though Ms Obama would triumph by an enormous 16-point margin.
New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand was tipped to beat Trump by eight points, 50 to 42.
Around 47 per cent of respondents to the poll conducted before the midterm elections in which Trump lost control of the House of Repre-sentatives, said they held a “strongly unfavourable” opinion of the President.
Axios and SurveyMonkey asked 9,908 people across two polls who they would vote for if the 2020 election were held today. The larger sample, of 6,497 people, had an error margin of 2.5 per cent and the smaller one had a 1.5-percent error estimate.
Joe Biden would also beat Mr Trump if put up by the Democrats in two years’ time, the survey suggested. In 2016 Trump was the oldest person to become US president, at 71. Ms Obama and Trump have engaged in a very public feud in recent days as the former first lady promotes her memoir, in which she says she will never forgive the billionaire for promoting the socalled birther conspiracy that claimed her husband was not born in the US.
While Americans’ perceptions of their president’s performance was consistently unfavourable over the last two years, Trump defied pollsters before the election in 2016 and these numbers come from a population sample already deeply sceptical of his leadership.
In addition, some of the women put up against him in this poll lack brand recognition, researchers found. When asked their opinion of Kamala Harris, Ms Gillibrand and Amy Klobuchar, over half the respondents did not know about them. — Agencies