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Biden leads Trump by 14 points in NYT poll
WASHINGTON, June 24, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Joe Biden has a 14-point lead
over US President Donald Trump ahead of the November election as some
Republican-leaning voters reproach Trump for his response to the
coronavirus crisis, a poll showed Wednesday.
In one of Trump’s worst poll showings for the 2020 race, the
Democrat Biden garnered 50 percent of the vote compared with 36
percent for the president, according to a survey by the New York Times
and Siena College.
Recent polls have found Biden 10 points ahead of the president on average.
Biden has built up a big lead among women, African Americans and
Latinos, the new poll said.
He has also drawn even with Trump among male voters, whites and
people middle aged or older, who tend to vote Republican, the
newspaper added.
The Times said Trump is losing support among a striking cross
section of voters after his administration fumbled in its response to
the pandemic, which has crippled the economy.
Trump’s tough law-and-order stance during a national reckoning over
racial injustice and police brutality against minorities has also
apparently cost him.
The poll found Trump’s support sharply down among voters that
Republicans tend to rely on — whites with college degrees.
The Times said the poll of 1,337 registered voters was carried out
from June 17 to 22. It did not specify the margin of error.
Trump might nonetheless take heart in the fact that the election is
more than four months away. In the 2016 vote, Hillary Clinton led in
the polls throughout the campaign and ended up losing the election.
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