On the eve of the November US election, President Biden is trailing Trump in six of the seven battleground states, according to the latest public opinion poll.
Voters are expressing dissatisfaction with the state of the national economy and have deep doubts about Biden’s ability and performance, a Wall Street Journal poll found.
Trump leads by between two and eight percentage points in the six battleground states – Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina. Biden, however, is ahead of Trump by three points in Wisconsin.
In every state in the poll, negative views of the president’s job performance exceed positive ones by 16 percentage points or more, with the gap reaching 20 points in four states. In contrast, Trump earned an unfavourable assessment of his performance in the White House in only one state, Arizona, where negative evaluations exceed positive ones by 1 percentage point, The Wall Street Journal reported.
According to Real Clear Politics, a portal that tracks all major national polls, Trump and Biden are battling for the lead this autumn. The average of major national polls shows Trump ahead of Biden by 0.8 percentage points.
The Hill newspaper said on Wednesday:
Biden and Trump both easily became their party’s presumptive nominees last month, but each candidate will face a long and difficult campaign in a rematch of the 2020 contest. In a race expected to be razor-tight, a handful of battleground states will likely determine the winner.
