Former President Trump holds a two-point lead over President Biden among voters nationwide, according to pollsters, with the two facing a rematch in November. New Research.
About 41% of registered voters said they would vote for Trump if the election were held today, while 39% chose Biden, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday. About 20% of voters said they had not chosen a candidate, were leaning toward a third party or might not vote in the election.
this is, Previous Reuters/Ipsos pollAccording to Reuters, the poll, conducted between May 31 and June 1, showed the incumbent president leading the former president by two points, 41 percent to 39 percent, respectively.
The latest two-day poll was conducted earlier this week and closed on Tuesday, nearly two weeks after Trump was convicted in New York in a hush-money case, the news agency reported. The stable support for the former president follows a range of polls over the past two weeks that suggested the conviction was not affecting some voters’ choices.
About 61% of registered voters in the latest survey said Trump’s 34 felony conviction before the 2016 election for falsifying business records in an attempt to cover up past allegations of extramarital affairs had no impact on their voting plans, pollsters said.
Meanwhile, the president’s son, Hunter Biden, was convicted this week on a federal firearms charge, making the commander in chief the first sitting U.S. president with a child who has been convicted of a crime.
In a poll that closed on the day of the conviction, 80% of people surveyed said a conviction of Biden was unlikely to change their vote.
When independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was added, about 10% of respondents said they would choose him if he appeared on the same ballot as Trump and Biden, according to the survey.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted among 903 voters nationwide from June 10-11, giving Trump a lead with a margin of error of about 3 percentage points, according to the news agency.
