(Reuters) – Democratic President Joe Biden trails Republican frontrunner Donald Trump in five of the six most important battleground states exactly a year before the U.S. election as Americans express doubts about Biden’s age and dissatisfaction toward his handling of the economy, polls released on Sunday showed.
Additional findings from the New York Times and Siena College Polls released on Monday, Trump, his party’s frontrunner for the 2024 nomination as he seeks to regain the presidency, leads in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, with Biden ahead in Wisconsin, Sunday’s results showed. Biden defeated Trump in all six states in 2020, but Trump now leads by an average of 48% to 44% in those states, the polls showed.
Trump has a 52 percent to Biden’s 41 percent edge in Nevada. In Georgia, Trump has 49% of the vote compared to 43% for Biden. In Arizona, Trump leads Biden 44 percent; in Michigan, he leads Biden 43 percent; and in Pennsylvania, Trump leads Biden 44 percent.
“Add it all together,” according to the Times, “and Mr. Trump leads by 10 points in Nevada and six in Georgia, five in Arizona, five in Michigan and four in Pennsylvania.”
Biden’s multiracial and multigenerational coalition appears to be fraying, the polls showed.
Voters under age 30 favor Biden, who is 80, by only a single percentage point, his lead among Hispanic voters is down to single digits and his advantage in urban areas is half of Trump’s edge in rural regions, the polls showed.
Black voters – a core Biden demographic – are now registering 22 percent support in these states for Trump, a level the New York Times reported was unseen in presidential politics for a Republican in modern times.
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