Two Fox News polls released Thursday show former President Donald Trump leading President Joe Biden in hypothetical head-to-head races and deeper fields in Michigan and North Carolina.
In a Michigan poll, carried out Under the direction of Beacon Research and Shaw & Company Research, a hypothetical head-to-head matchup with Biden found 47 percent of registered voters supporting Trump, with Biden receiving 45 percent of responses. . Trump’s 2-point lead is within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
🇺🇲 2024 GE: Fox News (1/26-2/12)
Biden vs. Trump
• North Carolina: Trump +5
• Michigan: Trump +2
• Wisconsin: 47-47 (tie)
• Georgia: Trump +8
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Biden vs Trump vs RFK vs West/Stein• North Carolina: Trump +9
• Michigan: Trump +5
• Wisconsin: Trump +3
• Georgia: Trump +8 https://t.co/UocluXitY0 pic.twitter.com/OnhVhZ3god— Interactive Polls (@IAPolls2022) February 15, 2024
This compares to a July 2020 Fox News Beacon Research/Show Company poll that showed Biden leading Trump, 49% to 40%, which tilted Trump by 11 points. This means that
The latest poll shows that 1% of respondents support someone else, 3% are not voting and 4% are undecided.
Expanding the field to include independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Green Party candidate Jill Stein, and independent Cornel West expands Trump’s lead over Biden and the rest of the pack to 5 points. do.
Among respondents, 42% supported Trump and 37% supported Biden. Kennedy Jr. came in third with 11% of the vote, followed by Stein with 3% and West with 2%.
In a hypothetical two-way race between Biden and former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-South Carolina), President Trump’s last challenger for the Republican nomination, Haley would lead 43% to 42%. . 3% would support someone else, 5% would not vote, and 7% don’t know who they would support in that scenario.
But if Biden and Haley had fought in a larger field, she would have fallen to third place behind Kennedy Jr., with Biden leading by almost double digits. Biden received 35% of the vote, Haley 26%, and Kennedy Jr. 35%. 23 percent. Mr. West and Mr. Stein were tied at 3%, with 3% abstaining and 7% undecided.
The poll sampled 1,106 registered voters from February 8th to 12th.
Trump has an even stronger advantage over Biden in North Carolina. acquirer If Biden were running alone, his approval rating would be 50%, while his approval rating would be 45%. Only 1% said they would vote for someone else, 2% said they would cancel the election, and 3% said they were undecided. The 5-point difference was outside the margin of error of plus or minus 3%.
In the broader field, President Trump’s approval rating declined slightly, but his lead over Biden widened by 4 points. Among respondents, 46% said they would vote for the 45th president, and 37% said they supported Biden. Kennedy Jr. failed to reach double digits with 8%, followed by Stein with 2% and West with 1%. His 4 percent of respondents are undecided.
Ms. Haley also leads Ms. Biden by 5 points in both races, but has more opponents chasing her in the race. Biden got 33%, Haley got 31% and Kennedy jumped to 19%. In this scenario, West and Stein would each get his 2%.
The North Carolina poll, also conducted under the direction of Beacon Research and Shaw & Company Research, surveyed 1,099 respondents from February 8 to 11.
A Fox News poll released in early February found that Trump is running a close race against Biden in Wisconsin, but has a deeper lead over Biden in the Badger State. Similarly, another Fox News poll showed Trump leading Biden in Georgia.
