Biden trails Trump in states likely to decide 2024 US election, polls
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[November 06, 2023]
By Jarrett Renshaw
(Reuters) - Democratic President Joe Biden trails Republican frontrunner
Donald Trump in five of the six most important battleground states
exactly a year before the U.S. election as Americans express doubts
about Biden's age and dissatisfaction toward his handling of the
economy, polls released on Sunday showed.
The polls were conducted by the New York Times and Siena College. Trump,
leading the field for his party's 2024 nomination as he seeks to regain
the presidency, leads in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and
Pennsylvania, with Biden ahead in Wisconsin, the polls showed. Biden
defeated Trump in all six states in the 2020 election. Trump now leads
by an average of 48% to 44% in the six states, the polls showed.
THE TAKE
While polls assessing the national popular vote have consistently showed
Biden and Trump in a close race, presidential elections typically are
decided by the outcomes in a handful of so-called swing states.
Biden's victories in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and
Wisconsin - all swing states that Trump carried in 2016 - were
instrumental in his 2020 victory. Biden likely would need to carry many
of those state again to win re-election.
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BIDEN CAMPAIGN REACTS
"Predictions more than a year out tend to look a little different a year
later. Don't take our word for it: Gallup predicted an 8 point loss for
President Obama only for him to win handedly a year later," Biden
campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz said in a statement, referring to
Democrat Barack Obama's 2012 victory over Republican Mitt Romney.
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second and final presidential debate at the Curb Event Center at
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Munoz added that Biden's campaign "is hard at work reaching and
mobilizing our diverse, winning coalition of voters one year out on
the choice between our winning, popular agenda and MAGA (Trump's
"Make America Great Again" slogan) Republicans' unpopular extremism.
We'll win in 2024 by putting our heads down and doing the work, not
by fretting about a poll."
BY THE NUMBERS
Biden's multiracial and multigenerational coalition appears to be
fraying, the polls showed.
Voters under age 30 favor Biden, who is 80, by only a single
percentage point, his lead among Hispanic voters is down to single
digits and his advantage in urban areas is half of Trump's edge in
rural regions, the polls showed.
Black voters - a core Biden demographic - are now registering 22
percent support in these states for Trump, a level the New York
Times reported was unseen in presidential politics for a Republican
in modern times.
KEY QUOTE"I was concerned before these polls and I'm concerned now,"
Richard Blumenthal, a Democratic U.S. senator from Connecticut, told
CNN.
"No one is going to have a runaway election here. ... We have our
work cut out for us," Blumenthal added.
(Reporting by Jarrett Renshaw; Editing by Heather Timmons and Will
Dunham)
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