Former President Trump has more support than President Biden in at least seven battleground states that are likely to decide the outcome of the election, a new poll finds.
Bloomberg News/Morning Consult pollA study released this week asking voters who they would support in a hypothetical general election found Biden trailing Trump in several key states, including Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada and Wisconsin. It turned out that he was taking. A majority of respondents expressed concern about Biden’s age, and a significant portion said Trump was dangerous.
In all seven states, 48% of voters said they supported Trump, while 43% said they supported Biden. Trump’s lead appears to be strongest in North Carolina, where he holds a nine-point lead over Biden, with 50% approval rating compared to Biden’s 41%.
The Tar Heel State, which Trump won in the 2020 election, was the only state where the former president garnered at least 50% support in the new poll. Neither candidate received majority support in other battleground states.
Recent polls show Trump maintaining a 6-point lead over Biden in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania (four states Biden carried in 2020).
The gap narrowed further in Wisconsin and Michigan, which Biden also won in the last presidential election. Biden trails the Republican presidential front-runner in the Badger State by 4 points, and in the Great Lakes State by 2 points, where Trump has 46% support and Biden has 44% support. There is.
bloomberg news Overall, about 8 in 10 voters across the state said Biden is too old, and nearly 6 in 10 voters said they view President Trump as dangerous. They also found that voters were more likely to rate former presidents as more mentally healthy than current presidents.
The Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll was conducted online from February 12 to February 20 and surveyed 4,955 registered voters in seven battleground states. The margin of error for all states was 1 percentage point.
Breaking down by state, Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania have a margin of error of 3 percentage points. It was 4 percentage points in Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin, and 5 percentage points in Nevada.
The poll results also came on the heels of Michigan’s 2024 presidential primary, in which leading candidates from both parties won their respective races.
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