With the forthcoming US election slated for November, President Joe Biden finds himself lagging behind his primary adversary, Donald Trump, in six out of seven pivotal battleground states, according to the latest findings from a comprehensive opinion poll.
The electorate expresses widespread dissatisfaction with the national economic landscape, coupled with substantial reservations regarding Biden's competency and performance in office, as unveiled by a recent survey conducted by the Wall Street Journal.
Across six critical battlegrounds including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina, Trump maintains a lead ranging between two to eight percentage points. However, Biden manages to secure a three-point advantage over Trump in Wisconsin.
In each state surveyed, negative appraisals of the president's job performance substantially outweigh positive sentiments by a margin of 16 percentage points or more. This disparity widens to over 20 points in four states. Conversely, Trump receives predominantly unfavorable reviews for his tenure in the White House in just one state — Arizona — where negative assessments slightly outweigh positive ones by 1 percentage point, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.
According to Real Clear Politics, an aggregator of major national polls, Trump and Biden find themselves locked in a tight race this autumn. An amalgamation of prominent national polls indicates Trump's marginal lead over Biden by 0.8 percentage points.
"Biden and Trump clinched their respective party nominations with relative ease last month, yet both contenders anticipate a protracted and challenging campaign as they square off in a rematch of the 2020 showdown. In what is expected to be an intensely contested race, the outcome hinges on a handful of pivotal battleground states," The Hill newspaper remarked on Wednesday.
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