October 5, 2020 1:19:22 pm
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden during the first presidential debate at Case Western University and the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo: AP)
After last week chaotic presidential debateAs former vice president and presidential candidate Joe Biden’s national advantage over President Donald Trump rose to 14 percentage points, the highest since he entered the race, according to a Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday.
Biden now has the backing of 53 percent of those polled, while 39 percent backed Trump. The poll shows a 6-point jump for Biden from the WSJ poll conducted on Sept. 20. Biden’s biggest lead in the poll previously was in July with 11 points.
The survey, which ran from September 30 to October 1, was completed just prior to the announcement of Ttailbone testing positive for the new coronavirus infection. She is currently in treatment at Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
Nearly 50 percent of those polled said Biden did a better job during the first debate compared to 24 percent who leaned toward Trump. While 17 percent do not believe that either candidate has done better than the other. And 73 percent of voters said the debates would not influence how they would vote.
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“Basically, last night was a snapshot of the last three and a half years. Not being able to say anything about white supremacists, being negative and not being presidential, ”one respondent told NBC News.
“I think he was the same old Trump,” said another. “He was bullying.”
Meanwhile, one voter who thought Trump did better cited “Biden’s inability to form a coherent response.”
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The poll is also the first conducted by NBC News / WSJ since Trump’s nomination of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. While 35 percent of voters supported Barrett’s nomination, 33 percent opposed. Another 30 percent said they did not yet have enough information to form an opinion. And 50 percent of voters said they preferred the Senate wait to fill the Supreme Court seat until after the elections, while 38 percent want the seat filled immediately.
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