Hold your horses: Biden isn’t dead in the water yet
April 4, 2024 | Mary Lou Masters
The 2024 race for the White House between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump appears to be tightening just weeks after the two became their respective parties’ presumptive nominees, according to recent national and battleground state polling.
While Biden hasn’t led in the RealClearPolitics (RCP) national average since early September 2023, Trump’s margin has dropped to just 0.6 points. The former president is still ahead in the RCP averages for Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Carolina, but recent polling indicates his leads are shrinking.
“I think we’re seeing a tightening as both candidates clinched their nominations,” Jon McHenry, GOP polling analyst and vice president at North Star Opinion Research, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Even though we’ve expected this matchup, it’s a different mindset as you have all-but-official nominees. There’s no question that voters are upset with President Biden, and think he’s done a poor job on the economy and immigration. He would lose a referendum on his leadership. What we’re seeing right now is a choice between two completely known candidates and that’s a closer call than just an up-or-down vote on Biden.”
Both Trump and Biden effectively secured their nominations after surpassing the delegate thresholds with primary contests on March 12.
A Marquette Law School survey released on Thursday found Biden leading Trump by four points among likely voters nationwide, following three other polls out this week that indicated the president was up by one to two points. An Emerson College poll also published on Thursday showed Biden ahead 51% to 49% with “very likely voters.”
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