Former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden in five of the six key battleground states new polls show, as the Democrat has lost support among the nonwhite and young voters who formed his winning coalition four years ago.
On Monday, The New York Times, Siena College and The Philadelphia Inquirer have been released the latest set of battleground polls, whose numbers have remained largely unchanged since the last set of polls were released in November. Biden got no boost from the 25 percent rise in the stock market or from ads his campaign has run in the six key states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
At the same time, Trump has not been politically damaged by the hush money lawsuit against Stormy Daniels, the investigations show.
Instead, among registered voters, Biden trails Trump by 12 points in Nevada and 10 points in Georgia, and is losing to Republicans by smaller margins in Michigan, Arizona and Pennsylvania.
Former President Donald Trump is beating President Joe Biden in five of the six battleground states, according to polls from the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and Siena College. Biden currently only has a lead in Wisconsin, after winning all six states in 2020
Former President Donald Trump will appear at a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey this weekend. New polls showed he has eaten into Biden’s support among young, Latino and Black voters, who formed the Democrat’s coalition to defeat Trump four years ago
Biden leads Trump by two points in Wisconsin, which is within that survey’s margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percent.
In the smaller group of likely voters, Trump still leads Biden in five states – with Biden ahead of Trump in Michigan but narrowly behind the ex-president in Wisconsin.
When third-party candidates are included, independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wins. about 10 percent of the vote in the six swing states.
The other third-party hopefuls combined — independent Cornel West, Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Lars Mapstead — account for about 3 percent.
In that scenario, Trump continues to win five of the six battleground states — and Trump and Biden are tied in Wisconsin.
Biden won all six of these battleground states in 2020 — but would only need to win Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to stay in the White House.
The president is in trouble because he has lost support among young, Latino and black voters.
Among age groups, 81-year-old President Joe Biden trails Trump in all categories except voters 65 and older, the polls showed. Biden is essentially tied with Trump when it comes to the youth vote, ending decades of Democratic dominance among this group
Polls showed Biden and Trump essentially tied among 18- to 29-year-olds — blowing up decades of Democratic dominance of the youth vote.
Trump wins 46 percent of the youth vote, while Biden takes in just 43 percent, according to polls in the six states when the candidates face off.
The only age group in which Biden is beating Trump is those 65 and older — a group that Republicans have traditionally won.
Additionally, the two candidates are tied among Hispanics — as Trump’s team has been trying to make inroads into the Latino community for years.
Biden wins 45 percent, compared to Trump’s 42 percent.
Black voters support Trump by more than 20 percent — the highest level of support given to a Republican presidential candidate since the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Times said.
The poll found that in six states, 63 percent of black voters are for Biden, while 23 percent are for Trump.