President Donald Trump kicks presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden by 12 points in key swing state Wisconsin with less than three months to go until election day, new data shows.
The latest state fraction of the battlefield released by Pulse Opinion Research found that 55 percent of likely voters in Wisconsin favored Biden, while 43 percent said they favored Trump.
A further 2 percent of Wisconsin voters said they were unsure about who to vote for, or instead aiming to make a candidate for a third party.
Asked if they were sure of their vote, nearly eight in ten respondents said their vote would not change, and 21 percent indicated they could still be moved before polls opened on November 3rd.
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When pollsters asked for general impressions of the leading candidates for the presidency, they found that none of the majority of Wisconsin’s favorite voters saw that Biden and Trump were not viewed well.
Ninety percent of demographics said they had either a “very” or “somewhat” favorable view of Biden, while a little over four in ten (41 percent) said the same of Trump.
By comparison, 58 percent of state voters adopted an unfavorable opinion of Trump because 48 percent said the same of Biden, giving the Democratic challenger a net favor of just one percentage point.
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On the issue of treating the economy and employment, Biden led the president by 6 percentage points, with half of Wisconsin voters saying they place more trust in the former vice president to restore the country. managing director.
Asked if a plan to boost the U.S. economy by creating more high-paying jobs and raising existing wages would change the chances of them voting for a candidate, a little more than two-thirds of the Wisconsin voters (68 percent) said they would be more likely to vote for a candidate with such a plan.
Eighteen percent of state voters said it would “make no difference” to how they would vote in three months time.
The new Pulse Opinion Research survey commissioned by the Center for American Greatness surveyed 750 likely voters in Wisconsin between August 5 and 6. The margin of error is at 4 percentage points.
According to the newly published FiveThirtyEight presidential election forecast, Biden is “favored” to win Wisconsin on November 3, after taking the state home in 72 percent of 40,000 simulated elections.
The mock election model put its average share of the popular vote in Wisconsin at 52 percent as of Thursday morning.
