According to a recent New York Times and Siena College poll, former President Donald Trump and 2024 GOP frontrunner is currently polling stronger than President Joe Biden in 5 out of 6 key battleground states.
Biden has seen rock-bottom polling numbers in the last few months due to his poor handling of the economy and multiple wars raging in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The GOP frontrunner is up between 4 to 10 percentage points among registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
Trump lost all of those states to Biden in the 2020 election.
From The New York Post:
Taken together, those five states account for 69 electoral college votes.
For context, Trump lost the electoral college to Biden 232 to 306. A candidate must get 270 votes to win the presidency.
The only state among the six where Trump trails Biden is Wisconsin, where the incumbent president has a two percentage point edge, per the poll.
The 77-year-old former president is also generally besting Biden nationally in polls, with a 0.5 percentage point edge in the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate.
Democratic Strategist David Axelrod shared the data on X, saying this polling will “send tremors of doubt thru the party.”
Yes, there also is risk associated with changing course now, as there is little time left for a primary campaign–and campaigns are how we test candidates. (Re @RonDeSantis.) But there is a lot of leadership talent in the Democratic Party, poised to emerge.
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) November 5, 2023
Only @JoeBiden can make this decision. If he continues to run, he will be the nominee of the Democratic Party. What he needs to decide is whether that is wise; whether it's in HIS best interest or the country's?
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) November 5, 2023
More over at The New York Post:
Trump notches considerable lead over Biden in five swing states: poll https://t.co/Tn9NUIDwt8 pic.twitter.com/mTLqKrmeSn
— New York Post (@nypost) November 5, 2023
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