Former President Trump leads President Biden by 5 points in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup among Georgia voters, according to a poll released Wednesday.
On a Quinnipiac University Researchheld from May 30 to June 3, 49% of registered voters in the swing state support Trump, while 44% support Biden.
The presumptive nominees of the two major parties receive approximately the same level of support from their respective parties: 94% of Republicans support Trump, while 4% support Biden; 93% of Democrats support Biden, while 4% support Trump.
Independents are split between the two candidates, with 45 percent supporting each.
Both candidates see their global support decrease in a hypothetical six-candidate clash, but Trump’s 5-point lead over Biden increases by 1 point: 43 percent against Biden’s 37 percent.
In this hypothetical matchup, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gets 8 percent support, Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver gets 3 percent, independent candidate Cornel West gets 3 percent, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein gets 2 percent.
“Trump has a narrow lead in the head-to-head horse race against Biden. Put four other ‘horses’ on the track, including the new Libertarian candidate, and he advances even further,” said Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy, in a statement. declaration.
Among Georgia voters, a more crowded general election field appears to do more damage to Biden’s support than Trump’s.
Biden’s support among Democrats drops to 80 percent in the hypothetical six-way matchup, down from 93 percent in the hypothetical head-to-head matchup against Trump.
Trump’s support among Republicans, on the other hand, only drops to 90 percent in the hypothetical six-person race, a drop of just 4 points from a head-to-head matchup with Biden.
Kennedy gets 10% support from Democrats in the six-person race, compared to just 5% support from Republicans.
Independent voters, in the six-party race, swing slightly in favor of Biden, with 38 percent supporting Biden, 35 percent supporting Trump and 11 percent supporting Kennedy.
The other three candidates – West, Stein and Oliver – receive support primarily from Biden’s base, with 7% of Democrats supporting one of these candidates, compared to just 2% of Republicans.
The probe comes immediately after Trump’s conviction in New York, where he was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a scheme to protect potentially damaging information from the American public ahead of the 2016 election.
In the Quinnipiac poll, 50% of voters agree with the verdict, compared to 44% who disagree with it. Nearly all Democrats agree with the verdict (96 percent agree, 1 percent disagree), while most Republicans disagree with it (10 percent agree, 86 percent disagree).
Among independents, 52% agree, while 42% disagree.
The poll included 1,203 self-identified registered voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
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