According to one report, in a hypothetical two-way general election race, President Joe Biden will be running ahead of Donald Trump in Virginia (a state where President Trump plans to “play tough” to win the nomination). He has only a 3-point advantage over the president. Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) poll.
In the poll released Tuesday, 43% of 812 registered voters said they supported Mr. Biden, compared to 40% who said they supported Mr. Trump. 4% voted for someone else, 5% did not vote, and 6% remained undecided. Biden's lead is within a margin of error of plus or minus 5.46 percentage points, and the interviews were conducted from December 28, 2023 to January 13, 2024.
📊 Georgia, Virginia 2024: @VCU
Biden: 43% (+3)
Trump: 40%
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Hayley: 43% (+5)
Biden: 38%
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Governor Yonkin: 54-31 (+23)
press. Biden: 37-54 (-17)
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12/28-1/13 | n=812A | MoE: ±5.46%https://t.co/FnY6HMdwjI pic.twitter.com/1pSfY2qRkX— Interactive Polls (@IAPolls2022) January 22, 2024
The narrow lead signals Biden's weakness as the general election rapidly approaches and could begin unofficially as early as Tuesday night depending on the outcome of New Hampshire's Republican primary.For reference, Mr. Biden in 2020 carried Virginia's vote share was 54.1%, giving Trump 44%. This poll shows that Trump's approval rating has fluctuated by 7 points since the 2020 election.
The 2020 election campaign was even more intense between Trump and Hillary Clinton, the presidential candidate who lost twice in 2016.Mr. Clinton won In Virginia the same year, the difference was 49.8% to 44.4%.
The poll also evaluated the performance of President Trump's last remaining primary Republican challenger, former Governor Nikki Haley (R-South Carolina), who would beat Biden by 43% in a hypothetical race. It turned out that they had a 38% lead. But her hopeful bid could hit a crossroads in New Hampshire on Tuesday, following Trump's landslide victory and campaign consolidation on January 15.
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An encouraging sign for Republicans was the 2021 off-season elections in the Old Dominion state, where Republicans swept statewide races. Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-Va.) defeated former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-Va.) by nearly two points. At the same time, Republicans won overwhelming victories in the lieutenant governor and attorney general elections. Democrats held all three offices heading into that election.
In late December, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlowe and Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle (which generated a ton of stories and dominated the news cycle), Trump The president has said he plans to expand the reach of battleground states in 2024. If he is a candidate. Specifically, he's going on the offensive in a state where Republicans haven't won a presidential election in years.
“The other thing I'm going to do, and it might be a stupid thing to do, is I'm going to play hard for New York, I'm going to play hard for New Jersey, Virginia. I mean, we're going to play hard for Virginia, we're going to play hard for Virginia. It's a tough fight for New Mexico and Minnesota, a state we haven't won in years,” Trump said.
He even rented out the iconic Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan for a rally, calling it “the belly of the beast.”
Interestingly, a poll released Monday by Siena College shows Trump has surged in a hypothetical head-to-head, and after seven months with a 13-point lead, he is now within single digits of the president. It has been shown. According to Breitbart News, Biden now leads Trump 46% to 37%, up from a June Siena College poll that showed him leading by 22 points, at 50% and 28%, respectively. I got it..
