Former President Donald Trump has widened his lead over President Biden by six points in one of the first national polls released after his victory in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday.
Trump leads Biden 40% to 34%. Reuters/Ipsos poll Announced Thursday, the rest are unsure whether they will choose someone else, plan to vote for someone else, or not vote at all.
The 45th president's lead in the polls remained even when respondents were given the option to vote for a third-party candidate, such as environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In that hypothetical three-way battle, Trump still leads Biden by 6 points, 36% to 30%, while RFK Jr. has 8% support.
Trump, 77, also holds a large national lead over former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, his only major opponent in the Republican primary.
Both candidates are focusing on the February 24 election in South Carolina, where the former president has an approval rating of 64% and Haley's approval rating of 19%.
A majority of respondents were dissatisfied with the prospect of a rematch between Trump and Biden in the 2020 presidential election, with 67% saying they were “tired of seeing the same candidate in the presidential election and would like a new candidate.” “Yes,” he replied.
However, only 18% said they would not vote at all if Trump or Biden were their main choice.
The omens don't bode well for Biden, with 70% of voters, including nearly half of Democrats, saying they don't think he should run for re-election, while 56%, including about a third of Republicans, believe Trump. They answered that the same was true.
Voters also expressed concerns about the ages of Biden and Trump. A whopping 75% of those surveyed said Mr. Biden is too old to serve in government, and 50% said the same about Mr. Trump.
At 81 years old, Biden is already the oldest president in US history. If you served a full term, he would be 86 years old at the end of a hypothetical second term.
Trump, 77, will be 82 at the end of his second term, making him the oldest president in history if he wins in November and completes his term, making him several months older than Biden.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll, conducted Jan. 22-24 among 1,250 U.S. adults, had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
