Donald Trump would DEFEAT Joe Biden in presidential election if held now, poll also shows Vivek Ramaswamy poised to overtake DeSantis
Donald Trump would beat incumbent President Biden to the White House if the race were held now, a new poll shows.
New findings in one Harvard-Harris Survey released on Friday show that Trump would beat Biden in a head-to-head game by five percentage points.
The new findings also show that Vivek Ramaswamy is hot on the heels of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has won eight points in the polls and trailed DeSantis by just two.
Trump would also beat Vice President Kamala Harris if she stepped down and ran in the race by an even bigger seven percent margin, according to the polls.
The former president also remains well short of winning the Republican presidential primaries despite Ramaswamy’s rise to power.
The new poll suggests that if elections were held now, former President Trump, right, would beat incumbent Biden, left, by five percent
Their poll, which polled 2,068 registered voters, also showed a broad sense of discontent across the country for both major party candidates, with 70 percent looking for another option.
The majority of those polled also agreed that President Biden was mentally incapable of remaining president.
59 percent of people agreed that they had doubts about his eligibility for office, with the majority GOP voters, 85 percent.
The polls also widely agreed that Biden showed he is too old to be president, with more than two-thirds, 68 percent, agreeing that he was too old.
Should the Republican party primary fall between DeSantis and Trump, the former president would win with 63 percent of the vote, according to polls.
In addition to the main political frontrunners in the upcoming elections, the poll also asked individuals about their preference for political figures.
Topping this poll was Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who received a favorable rating of 47 percent, with an unfavorable rating of 26 percent.
Second on the list was Donald Trump, who received a favorable rating of 45 percent, but a higher unfavorable rating of 49 percent.
Vivek Ramaswamy, left, has now closed the gap to just two percentage points behind Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, right, but both still trail Trump by significant margins
New doubts have been raised about Biden’s fitness for office after a series of high-profile oversights
It comes after polls released earlier this month by Echelon Insights found that 48 percent of swing state voters would support Trump in next year’s ballot.
Pollsters, who interviewed 1,020 voters for the survey, said only 41 percent would support Biden over the former president.
But in a head-to-head national poll, Echelon found Biden ahead of Trump by just 45 percent to 44 percent.
Echelon Insights research found that 60 percent of likely Democratic voters said they would “definitely” or “probably” support Biden in a Democratic presidential primary.
Another 33 percent responded that they would choose to support another Democratic candidate, while 7 percent said they weren’t sure.
The Echelon Insights survey was conducted with 1,020 likely voters between June 26 and June 29, with a margin of error of +/- 3.9 percentage points.
Of all the political figures in the country, Robert F. Kennedy, who is running for the Democratic presidential nominee, was considered the most favorable in the poll
The president managed to win the 2020 election after flipping the major swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
Last month, an investigation suggested that the swing state of Pennsylvania had moved back toward Trump.
With 20 Electoral College votes and a tendency to fluctuate between elections, Pennsylvania is one of the states crucial to determining who wins the presidency.
After voting for Trump in 2016, Pennsylvania turned blue for Biden in 2020.
The Quinnipiac poll found that 47 percent of Pennsylvania voters would vote for the former president, while 46 percent would support the current commander in chief.