Biden’s leadership is expanding over Trump nationwide
A Quinnipiac poll of registered voters across the country released Wednesday found Biden with a 15-point lead over Trump, with Biden receiving 52 percent support, compared to Trump’s 37 percent. Compare that to Quinnipiac’s June poll, which found Biden 49 percent to 41 percent much tighter.
“There is no advantage, no silver lining, or an encouraging trend hidden somewhere in this poll for the president,” Quinnipiac poll analyst Tim Malloy said in a press release.
Quinnipiac’s survey of 1,273 registered voters, which had a 2.8 percent margin of error, was among the top two polls this week that surveyed voters across the country. The other, from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal, found that Biden rose 51 percent to 40 percent, an 11-point margin. That poll surveyed 900 registered voters and had a 3.3 percent margin of error.
Leaving individual surveys aside, the survey average on the FiveThirtyEight website, which takes into account the results of multiple surveys, shows Biden approximately nine points as of Thursday morning.
Trump’s performance on issues like the coronavirus and racial inequality are hurting him.
Quinnipiac’s poll found that Biden also has a double-digit lead over Trump when it comes to handling the coronavirus pandemic and racial inequality, two issues respondents said will weigh in choosing who to vote for. Respondents said they thought Biden would do a better job of managing the pandemic than Trump, 59 percent to 35 percent, a difference of 24 points. On which candidate would best handle racial inequality, the difference was even more stark: 62 percent said Biden, while only 30 percent said Trump, a difference of 32 points.
Overall, respondents said they were unhappy with the direction the nation is taking: 56 percent said they were “very dissatisfied” with the situation, while only 24 percent reported being very or somewhat satisfied.
Going deeper, Trump continues to fight on unpopular issues with most voters
When Trump replaced his campaign manager, a donor to the president’s campaign told the Wall Street Journal that he hoped the new campaign chief would be able to curb some of Trump’s tweets. And this week’s polls show why: The issues the Trump White House has focused on in recent weeks, such as protecting Confederate symbols or criticizing public health officials, are deeply unpopular.
Nearly two-thirds of voters in the Quinnipiac poll said they thought Trump was undermining efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus and trusted Dr. Anthony Fauci. That finding comes when White House aides only spent several days attacking Fauci’s credibility. On top of that, the NBC News / Wall Street Journal poll found that respondents were twice as likely to support a candidate who prioritized delaying the spread of the coronavirus over one who prioritized reopening business.
On race issues, the majority of respondents think the Confederate flag is a symbol of racism and supports the removal of Confederate statues from public spaces, according to the Quinnipiac poll, even when Trump has repeatedly defended such statues, saying This week the Confederate flag was a symbol of “freedom of expression.”
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