Former President Trump maintains a 2-point lead over President Biden among registered voters nationwide as the two prepare for a rematch in November, according to a new search.
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll released Thursday found that about 41 percent of registered voters said they would vote for Trump if the election were held today, while 39 percent chose Biden. About 20 percent of voters said they had not chosen a candidate, were leaning toward third-party options or might not vote in the election.
This is a flip-flop of one previous Reuters/Ipsos surveyheld from May 31 to June 1, which showed the incumbent with a 2-point lead over the former president – or 41% to 39%, respectively – per Reuters.
The latest two-day poll was conducted earlier this week and concluded on Tuesday, nearly two weeks after Trump was criminally convicted in New York in his silence case, the news outlet noted. The continued support for the former president follows several other polls conducted over the past two weeks, suggesting that the guilty verdict is not affecting the choices of some voters.
About 61 percent of registered voters in the latest poll said the fact that Trump was found guilty of all 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records in an attempt to cover up an alleged past affair before the 2016 election did not affect their voting plans. , the researchers said.
Meanwhile, the president’s son, Hunter Biden, was found guilty in a federal gun case this week, making the commander in chief the first sitting U.S. president with a criminally convicted child.
The poll, completed the same day as the conviction, found that 80 percent of adults surveyed said the younger Biden’s conviction was unlikely to change their vote.
Adding independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the mix, about 10% of respondents said they would choose him if he were on the ballot with Trump and Biden, according to the poll.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted nationally among 903 registered voters between June 10 and 11. Trump’s lead in the poll had a margin of error of about 3 percentage points, the news outlet said.
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