Last updated on July 18th, 2023 at 12:00 pm
A new poll shows that Joe Biden’s national lead over Trump has gone from two points at the end of February to six points by early May.
According to the CBS News/YouGov poll:
BIDEN VS. TRUMP:
Nationwide, Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by six points among likely voters.(But a reminder: the national vote tally doesn’t determine the Presidency, the Electoral College does.)https://t.co/6yRTziaGpP pic.twitter.com/ZeFnnL1zl0
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) May 3, 2020
More bad news for Trump as voters say the economy will influence their vote more than coronavirus:
Voters nationwide say both the coronavirus outbreak and the economy are factors in their vote choice or President right now, especially the economy. pic.twitter.com/YxucjAqBOk
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) May 3, 2020
Forty-nine percent of respondents in the poll also said that they are thinking about the presidential election a lot, and another 30% said that they are thinking about it some. 53% of respondents said that they have seen too much of Trump during the coronavirus pandemic and 47% said that they haven’t seen enough of Biden.
Joe Biden is not going to have to worry about being overexposed before the election, as voters are hungry to hear more from the presumptive Democratic nominee before the election. The problem for Trump is that even if the economy reopens, the economic damage is going to linger for the rest of the year.
Biden’s lead is growing as Trump’s support is stuck the same 40%-44% range that his base is in. When Trump destroyed the economy, he may have also ended his best chance for a second term.
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