A new WaPo-ABC News poll has bad news for Biden.
According to The Washington Post, a new poll paints quite a different picture than the “dead heat” narrative being peddled by most mainstream media outlets in the event of a Trump-Biden rematch.
According to the WaPo-ABC News poll —Trump is up on Biden by 10 points.
A significant portion of Democrats also say they want “someone else” as their nominee.
From WaPo:
Biden and former president Donald Trump appear headed for a rematch of their 2020 contest, although more than 3 in 5 Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say they would prefer a nominee other than the president. But Biden’s advisers have argued that he is the strongest Democrat for 2024 and those who wish for someone else share no consensus on who that should be, with 8 percent naming Vice President Harris, 8 percent naming Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and 20 percent saying they prefer “just someone else.”
The Post-ABC poll shows Biden trailing Trump by 10 percentage points at this early stage in the election cycle, although the sizable margin of Trump’s lead in this survey is significantly at odds with other public polls that show the general election contest a virtual dead heat. The difference between this poll and others, as well as the unusual makeup of Trump’s and Biden’s coalitions in this survey, suggest it is probably an outlier.
In his bid to become the Republican presidential nominee for a third time, Trump is in a strong position nationally despite facing multiple criminal charges. He is favored by 54 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, little changed from 51 percent in May. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is second at 15 percent, down from 25 percent in May. No other Republican reaches double digits. Trump also leads his GOP rivals in recent state polls, which are likely to be more reliable indicators than national polls of the shape of the GOP race in the coming months.
Many on social media were quick to criticize the poll for referring to itself as an “outlier” because it showed Trump in a strong position in a Trump-Biden rematch.
If Trump leads, The Post feels like it must criticize its own poll.
Post-ABC poll: Biden faces criticism on economy, immigration and age – The Washington Post https://t.co/ZTb6OLZDGj
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