The latest presidential poll numbers should please Biden: He leads Trump in the Florida Atlantic University and Mainstreet, RMG, Quinnipiac, and several other notable polls. Of course, we are still seven months from the election, but this is a dramatic change in the outcome of most recent polls, that had the candidates either tied or Trump out front.
The Quinnipiac University poll, conducted March 27 with more than 1,400 registered voters, found that 48 percent of voters support Biden with 45 percent for Trump, with a margin of error of 2.6 percent.
Ipsos, the poll for Reuters, reported that 41 percent of registered voters chose Biden compared to 37 percent for Trump, who at the moment is squirming in court in the “hush money” trial. This poll was conducted between April 5 and April 9, with 833 registered voters and a 4 point margin of error.
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According to Heath Brown, an associate professor of public policy at City University in New York, the results were very close. “The polling over the last several months indicated this is a very close race. I wouldn’t read too much into any one or two polls at this point,” he said. “The trend seems to be that the campaign will be a very tight one and I suspect the polls will reflect that until November.”
As Trump’s criminal trial opened on Monday, the prosecutors asked the judge to fine Trump and to remind him that he could go to jail for violation of the gag order. It will be interesting to see to what extent the voluble Trump accedes to the order that bars him from intimidating and threatening potential witnesses.
There is also the question of security, although on the first day of trial, there was little turnout.