Presumptive Democratic president nominated Joe Biden
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The former vice president received 53 percent of the vote in the poll, ahead of Trump’s 42 percent. In June, Biden held an 8-point lead over Trump.
The interview was mostly conducted before Biden made Sen.’s announcement. Kamala Harris
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Both Trump and Biden received relatively low favoritism marks in the poll. Thirty-five percent of those surveyed said they viewed Trump favorably, while 42 percent said the same of Biden.
Biden also did significantly better than Trump among voters who said they did not like both candidates, with 52 percent saying they would vote for the former vice president, compared with 33 percent saying they for Trump would vote.
In 2016, polls found that Trump did well among voters who said they did not like the then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton
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Half of all respondents said they would cast their ballots in person, up from 38 percent who said the same thing in May, while 43 percent said they would cast their ballots, up from 50 percent in May. Bidden supporters were significantly more likely to vote by post than Trump supporters.
The NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist interview was conducted among 1,118 registered voters 8-11-11 and reported an error margin of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.
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