Press-Telegram (Long Beach)

Poll: Trump is leading Biden in 5 swing states

- By Shane Goldmacher

President Joe Biden is trailing Donald Trump in five of the six most important battlegrou­nd states one year before the 2024 election, suffering from enormous doubts about his age and deep dissatisfa­ction over his handling of the economy and a host of other issues, new polls by The New York Times and Siena College have found.

The results show Biden losing to Trump, his likeliest Republican rival, by margins of 4 to 10 percentage points among registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvan­ia. Biden is ahead only in Wisconsin, by 2 points, the poll found.

Across the six battlegrou­nds — all of which Biden carried in 2020 — the president trails by an average of 48% to 44%.

Discontent pulsates throughout the Times/Siena poll, with a majority of voters saying Biden's policies have personally hurt them. The survey also reveals the extent to which the multiracia­l and multigener­ational coalition that elected Biden is fraying. Demographi­c groups that backed Biden by landslide margins in 2020 are now far more closely contested, as two-thirds of the electorate sees the country moving in the wrong direction.

Voters younger than 30 favor Biden by only a single percentage point, his lead among Hispanic voters is down to single digits and his advantage in urban areas is half of Trump's edge in rural regions. And while women still favored Biden, men preferred Trump by twice as large a margin, reversing the gender advantage that had fueled so many Democratic gains in recent years.

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