Flipping over new poll
Former President Donald Trump is leading President Biden in five critical, toss-up swing states — all of which Biden won in 2020, a new set of polls revealed.
Surveys by The New York Times, Siena College and The Philadelphia Inquirer found that Trump was more popular than Biden among voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania, while Biden led among voters in only one battleground state, Wisconsin.
All six of the battleground states looked at in the polls were won by Biden in 2020, and victories in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in 2024 would be enough for Biden to secure his re-election, as long as he did not lose any of the states he won four years ago.
The poll numbers revealed how issues like the cost of living, the economy, the Israel-Hamas war and immigration have caused widespread dissatisfaction among Americans, all while raising concerns over Biden’s ability to improve their quality of life.
Nearly 70% of voters polled said the country’s political and economic systems need a major overhaul — and only 13% of Biden’s supporters believe he would be able to bring about such change during a second term.
Almost 40% of Trump supporters polled said the economy or cost of living was the most important issue in the election, with many doubting the Biden administration’s insistence that the economy is improving.
Many of the voters polled even admitted that even while they dislike Trump, he would be the candidate to drive muchneeded change.
Trump and Biden are tied among 18- to 29-year-olds and among Hispanic voters, even though over 60% of the demographic voted for Biden in 2020.
Trump has also secured 20% of black voters’ support — the highest level of black support for any Republican presidential candidate since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to the Times poll.
Abortion continues to be a hot-button issue among voters, with 64% in battleground states saying abortion should always or mostly be legal, including 44% of Trump supporters, according to the polls.
Voters prefer Biden over Trump to handle the issue of abortion by 11 points, 49 to 38%.