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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden is catching as much as former President Donald Trump’s polling lead, highlighting simply how shut the 2024 presidential election can be, based on a brand new ballot from the New York Times and Siena College.
Trump leads Biden by only one share level with each males at 46% and 45% respectively. The survey is a major increase for the incumbent president who has been lagging behind Trump in recent polling.
An earlier New York Times and Siena faculty ballot launched in March noticed Trump main Biden by 5 share factors at 48% and 43% respectively.
But Biden seems to be shoring up assist amongst Americans who voted for him within the 2020 elections. 89% of his 2020 supporters say they’d vote for him now in comparison with 83% who stated the identical from the sooner ballot.
Trump nonetheless instructions robust assist at 94% amongst his 2020 supporters, however that’s a drop from 97% within the March ballot.
Biden, who has seen falling assist amongst Black and Latino voters, has began to make beneficial properties with these voters as effectively, a key coalition behind his 2020 victory. His assist with these voters nonetheless, nonetheless isn’t as excessive because it was in 2020, based on the ballot.
And whereas age continues to be a significant concern for Biden – 69% of voters within the ballot say he’s too old to be an efficient president – that concern has fallen amongst voters older than 65.
But different marketing campaign points proceed to pose troubles for Biden’s reelection marketing campaign. The former president is main Biden on each the economic system and immigration based on the ballot.
On the economic system, 64% accredited of Trump’s dealing with of the economic system in comparison with 63% who disapproved of Biden’s dealing with of it. And on immigration, 50% of voters accredited of Trump’s dealing with of the difficulty in comparison with 64% of voters who disapproved of Biden’s job.
The ballot was carried out with 1,059 registered voters and had a margin of sampling error amongst registered voters by plus or minus 3.3 share factors.
