Trump leads Biden by EIGHT POINTS in Michigan but it’s a dead heat in Pennsylvania: New swing state poll shows ex-president still has the advantage, but more than half don’t like either candidate

Donald Trump is leading Joe Biden in the crucial swing state of Michigan, a new poll shows, but the two men are tied in another crucial battleground: Pennsylvania.

The new opinion poll CNN/SSRS was conducted after both men completed their respective parties’ presidential nominations. The survey also revealed a clear lack of enthusiasm among the electorate, with most voters unhappy about a repeat of the 2020 election.

Biden won both states four years ago – returning to the Democrats after Trump won them in the 2016 election. The incumbent president’s campaign sees Pennsylvania and Michigan as crucial to Biden’s quest for a second term.

But Michigan voters favored Trump by 50% over Biden’s 42%. And in Pennsylvania it was a tie at 46% for each candidate. And only 47% of voters in Pennsylvania and 46% in Michigan say they are satisfied with this year’s presidential candidates.

The CNN poll found that the majority of voters in each state had already made up their minds about who they would vote for in November.

However, in a sign of hope for any campaign, about a quarter of voters said they could change their minds.

That slim margin would be enough to swing the state to either candidate.

In every state, Biden struggled to win support from young voters, many of whom are dissatisfied with his handling of the war in the Middle East.

In Pennsylvania, Biden did well among women, voters of color, college graduates and independent voters. In Michigan, Biden did less well among voters of color and trailed Trump among independent voters.

The CNN investigation also found that when candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West were added to the mix, there was significant support for Kennedy, at great cost to Biden.

In Pennsylvania, 40% chose Trump, 38% Biden, 16% Kennedy and 4% West, while in Michigan voters chose 40% Trump, 34% Biden, 18% Kennedy and 4% West.

The Biden campaign was concerned that Kennedy would receive support from the president.

Both states were close in the 2020 contest: Biden won Michigan by three points and Pennsylvania by just one point.

President Joe Biden poses for a photo with Hurley “HJ” Coleman IV and his father Hurley Coleman III, left, as he arrives for a campaign event in Saginaw, Michigan

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has significant support in both Michigan and Pennsylvania

Biden was in Michigan last week to court black voters. The president faces significant opposition there from members of his own party over his policies in the Middle East.

During that state’s primaries, 13% of Democrats voted “voluntarily” instead of for the president, citing his handling of the war between Israel and Hamas.

That turned out more than 100,000 voters across the state, raising concerns about Biden’s general election prospects after he defeated Trump in 2020 in Michigan by just 154,000 votes.

Biden has also spent a lot of time in Pennsylvania, which he considers a second home state. Biden was born in Scranton and moved to Delaware as a child.

He began his travel blitz after the State of the Union in Pennsylvania.