A poll released Wednesday showed former President Trump leading President Biden by five points in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup among Georgia voters.
in Quinnipiac University SurveyThe survey, conducted between May 30 and June 3, found that 49% of registered voters in battleground states support Trump, while 44% support Biden.
The two major party presumptive candidates have roughly equal levels of support from their respective parties: 94% of Republicans support Trump and 4% support Biden, while 93% of Democrats support Biden and 4% support Trump.
Independents are split between the two candidates, with 45% supporting each.
If the six candidates faced off, both candidates’ overall approval ratings would fall, but Trump’s five-point lead over Biden would widen by one point, to 43 percent to Biden’s 37 percent.
In this hypothetical matchup, Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is garnering 8 percent of the support, Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver is garnering 3 percent, Independent candidate Cornel West is 3 percent, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein is garnering 2 percent.
“Trump has a slight lead over Biden in the head-to-head race, and with four other ‘horses’ on the ballot, including the new Libertarian Party candidate, Trump will likely increase his lead by a small margin,” Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement.
Among Georgia voters, the crowded field of candidates in the general election appears to be hurting support for Biden more than for Trump.
Biden’s approval rating among Democratic voters falls from 93 percent in a head-to-head matchup with Trump to 80 percent in a hypothetical six-way contest.
Meanwhile, Trump’s approval among Republicans fell to 90 percent in a hypothetical six-way race, down just four points from his head-to-head matchup with Biden.
Kennedy has the support of 10% of Democrats in the six-candidate race, but just 5% of Republicans.
In the six-way race, independents are leaning slightly toward Biden, with 38 percent backing him, 35 percent backing Trump and 11 percent backing Kennedy.
The other three candidates, West, Stein and Oliver, have primarily served to draw support from Biden’s base, with 7% of Democrats backing any of them compared to just 2% of Republicans.
The poll came shortly after Trump was convicted in New York of 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a plot to hide information that could harm the American people ahead of the 2016 election.
A Quinnipiac University poll found that 50 percent of voters approve of the decision, while 44 percent disapprove. Nearly all Democrats approve of the decision (96 percent approve, 1 percent disapprove), while a majority of Republicans disapprove (10 percent approve, 86 percent disapprove).
Among independents, 52 percent support the bill and 42 percent oppose it.
The poll involved 1,203 registered voters and has a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percentage points.
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