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Trump reduces the gap in Biden’s lead to just eight points in a new poll with just four days to go before the election
- A new Fox News poll of potential voters shows Biden ahead 52 to 44 percent
- Three weeks ago, Biden led 53-43 percent among likely voters.
- Trump was the candidate of choice for voters in person and on Election Day
- Biden was the majority choice for people who cast votes by mail and early voters
A new poll shows that with Election Day fast approaching, President Trump is beginning to close the gap in Joe Biden’s leadership.
According to a national Fox News poll of potential voters released Friday, Biden’s lead over Trump has shrunk from a 10-point lead to eight points.
The poll indicates that Biden is now ahead of Trump by a margin of 52 to 44 percent, with two percent of likely voters backing a third-party candidate and two percent undecided.
The new poll showed that Biden’s lead had fallen from 10 points to eight points in the past three weeks. Now it leads by 52-44%, but previously it was leading by 53-43%.
A new Fox News poll of potential voters reveals that President Trump (pictured) is closing the gap between Joe Biden’s leadership and is now only eight points behind him.
Three weeks ago, in early October, the pollster said Biden had a margin of 53 to 43 percent.
Fox News reported that among potential voters, support for Biden has been between 51 and 53 percent since early September, a notable difference from the 2016 presidential race, when neither Trump nor Hillary Clinton exceeded 48 percent. percent in pre-electoral polls or in the final results of the elections.
“Biden has a substantial advantage nationally, a lot of votes have already been cast and there are few undecided,” Democratic pollster Chris Anderson, who conducted the poll with Republican Daron Shaw, told Fox News.
“It is difficult to see the national race change significantly in recent days, but that does not mean that it is impossible for Trump to rethread the needle in an Electoral College victory.”
Biden (pictured) was the favorite among mail-order and early voters, while Trump was the preferred candidate among voters in person and on Election Day, according to the poll.
The new Fox News poll shows that Trump is the preferred candidate among white men with +17 points, rural voters with +18 points and white evangelical Christians with +50 points.
Meanwhile, Biden is the favorite candidate among women with +17 points, suburban women with +29 points, Hispanics with +18 points, black women with +66 points and voters under 30 with +32 points. .
Biden is also said to be favored by a 10-point margin by senior citizens and favored by 54-32 percent by independent voters.
“Biden has the upper hand among key groups, especially older people, suburbanites and independents,” Shaw told the news network.
Trump needs a few more points from these groups to win re-election. But the main impediment is the tenacious stability of the race; not much has changed throughout the year despite pandemics, economic collapses and massive social unrest ”.
Of those who favor Biden, 78 percent feel “ extremely ” motivated to vote, compared with 74 percent who said the same and favored Trump.
As for voting in person, 53 percent said they would vote for Trump. Of the mail-in voters, 65 percent said they would vote for Biden.
Among early voters, Biden is ahead by 29 points.
But Trump leads by 16 points among Election Day voters.
The survey was conducted October 27-29 by Beacon Research and Shaw & Company. The survey results were based on interviews with 1,318 randomly chosen registered voters across the country and included results among 1,246 likely voters.
The poll has a sampling error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points for registered and likely voters.
