Reuters conducted a poll earlier this month that showed Trump and Biden tied in the race to become president. But now, just a few weeks later, Trump is leading by 6 points over Biden.
Here’s the news:
Donald Trump leads Democratic President Joe Biden by six percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll that showed Americans are unhappy about an election rematch that came into sharper focus following the former president’s New Hampshire victory.
The nationwide poll of 1,250 U.S. adults showed Trump leading Biden 40% to 34% with the rest unsure or planning to vote for someone else or no one. The poll had a margin of error of three percentage points.
That represented a gain for Trump after a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted earlier this month showed him and Biden tied, though a nationwide survey does not capture the subtleties of the electoral college contest that will be decided this fall in just a handful of competitive states.
Trump’s six-point lead held even when respondents were given the option of voting for third-party candidates, including anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with Trump drawing 36% support, Biden 30% and Kennedy 8%.
That’s a pretty significant increase in less than a month’s time. But I’m sure the media will do everything they can to turn this around to Biden’s favor.
The rest of the article is about the other part of the poll the revealed how many voters are unhappy about seeing the same candidates they saw four years ago and how they are also unhappy with both Trump and Biden’s ages.
Overall, the poll gave numerous signs that voters are not happy with their choices.
Seventy percent of respondents – including about half of Democrats – agreed with a statement that Biden should not seek re-election. Fifty-six percent of people responding to the poll said Trump should not run, including about a third of Republicans.
Biden has been weighed down by the widespread view that at 81, already the oldest person ever to be U.S. president, he is too old for the job.
Three-quarters of poll respondents agreed with a statement that Biden was too old to work in government, while half said the same about Trump, who at 77 would also be among the oldest U.S. leaders ever if returned to the White House. Just over half of Democrats saw Biden as too old while a third of Republicans viewed Trump that way.