Former President Donald Trump is on track to flip two key Western states he lost to President Biden four years ago.
An Emerson College/The Hill poll conducted Wednesday found Trump, 77, leading Biden, 81, by 4 points among registered voters in Arizona (48% to 44%). ing.
In Nevada, an Emerson/KLAS-TV/The Hill poll found Trump leading Biden 44% to 41%, with 15% of voters undecided.
When undecided voters leaning toward a particular candidate were forced to choose, Mr. Trump led Mr. Biden 52% to 48% in Arizona and 51% to 49% in Nevada.
Biden, 81, toured both states he won in 2020 on Tuesday as part of a tour of the West.
“Trump voters support the former president because they care about the issues (33%) or because they like Trump (30%), while 43% of Biden voters support the former president because they dislike Trump. “This is the highest sentiment among Biden voters in battleground states surveyed this month,” Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, said of the Arizona poll.
Fifty-eight percent of voters in the Grand Canyon State do not believe Biden deserves a second term, while only 42% think Biden deserves a second term.
When asked whether Trump deserves a chance to run for president following the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, 51% said he was eligible and 49% said he was not. Ta.
Trump, 77, leads Biden by 5.4 percentage points in the latest election. RealClearPoltics average Arizona poll.
In 2020, Biden became only the second Democrat to win Arizona in a presidential election since 1952, making Bill Clinton the only other party candidate to accomplish this feat in 1996.
The Emerson poll also found progressive Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) leading Republican Kari Lake 44% to 40% in the closely watched Senate race. .
Nevada has voted blue in each of the past four presidential election cycles, but the Emerson poll shows some warning signs for Biden.
“Hispanic voters in Nevada favor Biden over Trump (44% to 39%), while white voters favor Trump over Biden (50% to 39%),” Kimball said. he explained.
More than 6 in 10 Nevada voters (61%) say Biden does not deserve another four years in office, while 39% say he does.
Meanwhile, more than half (53%) say Trump doesn’t deserve a chance to run for high office after the Capitol riot, while 47% agree.
In the Silver State Senate race, Emerson Polling shows incumbent Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nevada) leading Republican candidate Sam Brown 41% to 39%, with a 21% lead over Republican candidate Sam Brown. The percentage is undetermined.
Trump held a 4.3 point lead over Biden in the Silver State. According to RCP tally.
The two polls sampled 1,000 registered voters in each state from March 12 to 15 and have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
