Posted on 08/04/2020 8:27:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
Trump takes 5 point lead in swing states…
A new poll released this weekend shows President Donald Trump, the incumbent GOP president, has taken a national and battleground states lead over his Democrat challenger presumptive nominee former Vice President Joe Biden.
The survey, from the Democracy Institute commissioned by the Sunday Express newspaper, shows Trump leading Biden 48 percent to 46 percent. What’s more, Trump has opened up a bigger lead according to this poll in the crucial battleground states, meaning the president by this pollster’s estimates currently is projected to win 309 electoral votes—more than he did in 2016.
Overall, this poll has Trump nationally at 48 percent to Biden’s 46 percent with six percent undecided. Among white voters, Trump leads 53 percent to 46 percent. Trump is surprisingly strong with black voters at 20 percent in this poll—he got about eight percent of the black vote in 2016—while this survey has Biden at 77 percent. Hispanic voters in this poll break for Biden 51 percent to 38 percent, which would also represent an increase for the president over his 2016 performance with Hispanics.
“Crucially, President Trump has a lead of 48 percent to 43 percent in the swing states Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin which would put him back in the White House with an electoral college tally of 309 to Biden’s 229,” David Maddox, the political editor for the Sunday Express, wrote about his newspaper’s survey.
The poll has Trump leading in Florida 47 to 45 percent, leading in Minnesota 46 percent to 45 percent, and in New Hampshire 46 percent to 43 percent. “The polling suggests Mr Trump is emerging as the race leader because of a belief he is best in handling the economy,” Maddox wrote. “With a third of voters putting the economy as the top election issue and 66 percent thinking that the economy is bouncing back after coronavirus, voters believe that Trump is better for the economy by 57 percent to 43 percent.”
When it comes to the electoral college, this pollster argues that Trump will pick up Minnesota and New Hampshire but that Biden would pick up Wisconsin.
Source:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/02/poll-trump-takes-lead-over-biden/
A curious poll from the Democracy Institute shows Trump winning in Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and on course to win the Electoral College 309 to Biden’s 229. The Institute’s poll showed that 58 percent voters found Biden likable, compared to just 29 percent for Trump — but 58 percent also thought the Democrat was exhibiting ‘some form of cognitive decline, such as the early stages of dementia’; 60 percent thought Biden too old to be president; and 63 percent said he had not been ‘sufficiently critical of the violent rioting.’
On the other hand, 61 percent approved of Trump’s handling of the protests and riots and 69 percent said the President was a ‘strong leader’, compared to just 24 percent for Biden. If anything, respondents suggested that Trump had not been firm enough with protesters: 48 percent said he had not been ‘tough enough’; compared to 25 percent who said ‘too tough.’
The poll also points towards a potentially huge ‘Shy Trump’ voter cohort — only 27 percent of Trump voters said they were comfortable with people knowing how they’d vote, compared to 83 percent for Biden. And that’s the ones willing to tell pollsters what they really think.
Source:
https://spectator.us/passed-peak-biden-2020-election/
Biden is in trouble
A growing majority of voters think Biden may be suffering from the early stages of senility. His public appearances – as few, scripted, and choreographed as they are – add fuel to this potentially devastating political fire. Democratic strategists fear the forthcoming TV debates against Trump will only cement this impression.
Our poll is picking up the drip-drip effect of the Trump campaign’s months-long campaign, via television and digital advertising, to convince voters that Biden’s simply too old, too tired, and too mentally taxed to be a credible occupant of the Oval Office. Combined with a relentless torrent of advertising tying Biden and the Democrats to the violent protests and the calls for defunding police departments, the ads are working.
The Trump campaign’s effectively doing to Biden what Barack Obama’s campaign did to Republican Mitt Romney in 2012: use its much larger war chest to drown its opponent in negative attack ads that serve to define (in Romney’s case) or to redefine (in Biden’s case) your opponent in voters’ minds.
Tellingly, the Trump campaign’s peeling away both Black and Hispanic voters from Biden. Today, four in ten Black voters approve of Trump’s performance. Half of those voters plan to vote for him. If Trump does receive 20 percent of the Black vote, he will be reelected. Full stop.
His reelection will be underlined should his Hispanic support hold. Currently, four in ten Hispanics plan to vote for Trump. Biden simply cannot win enough White votes to compensate for losing so much Hispanic support.
Source:
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1317447/us-election-2020-polls-latest-joe-biden-donald-trump-president
I think Sleepy Joe is locked in.
It’s too late for a replacement...
“I think Sleepy Joe is locked in.
It’s too late for a replacement...”
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Unless he is “Fosterized”
Great post keep it up but if it goes south start shooting
That’s my bet. People may differ on when the event would best occur, but I expect Joe to have a fatal medical mishap before too long. He won’t step aside. They won’t admit they’ve been running someone with dementia. He needs to just “exit”.
Well, this settles it. No need for an election at all, especially given the problemtic state of the election infrastructure. Proclaim Joe Biden as President and move on.
I don’t think the polls have actually changed. They have all been rigged. Trump doing better is a sign they are working to deep six Biden soon and bad polling will justify.
Serious question: Does anyone know anything about this poll? It’s never mentioned on RCP.
It’s a BRIT newspaper poll..................
Probably explains why on his Facebook there are hundreds of democrats warning him to push for mail-in voting and voting would help democrats if done as soon as possible before any debates (if there must be debates)
https://www.facebook.com/joebiden
Although they are likely closer to reality, don’t believe these Trump+ numbers...
Just a week ago or so ago Biden was up 12-17 points...what happened?
The DIMS are positioning Biden for the old switcheroo...
Biden suddenly down 5 this week...
Next week Sleepy either steps down (the switcheroo) or Joe picks his VEEP...
Either way it’s Moochelle-My-Bell Obama...
BIG Media has a wet dream...Big Mike gets a 20-point bump!
Polls are nice.
But the important thing is to commit to voting and do not waver.
I think the good thing about Republicans is we assume the Democrats are going to steal it, so we double down on getting out there and casting our vote.
(Although living in MA, my votes are for exhibition purposes only!)
Tomorrow Biden will be ahead by 20 in those same swing states. All of these polls are meaningless.
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