The White House urged caution on the 7th (local time) regarding recent opinion poll results showing that U.S. President Joe Biden is behind the leading Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump.
According to a public opinion poll conducted by the New York Times (NYT) and Siena University from the 22nd of last month to the 3rd of this month, President Biden ranked 4~4 in 5 of the 6 battleground states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, excluding Wisconsin. He lagged behind former President Trump by 11 percentage points (p).
White House spokeswoman Carine Jean-Pierre responded resolutely, saying, “Many public opinion poll results will come out in the future.”
Spokesperson Jean-Pierre said that their opinions should be listened to with a grain of salt, and mentioned that ahead of the 2012 presidential election, opinion polls showed that then-Republican candidate Mitt Romney was ahead of Democratic candidate Barack Obama. The result was an easy victory for former President Obama.
He also mentioned that the Republican Party expected a big victory during the 2022 midterm elections, but the Democratic Party took power in the Senate and the Republican Party only held a slight advantage in the House of Representatives.
Meanwhile, in this NYT poll, when asked, ‘Who will you support in a confrontation between former President Trump and President Biden?’, 48% of respondents answered that they would vote for former President Trump and 44% answered that they would vote for President Biden.
In a national opinion poll jointly conducted by CBS Broadcasting and YouGov, President Biden was behind President Trump by 48% to 51%.
Source: Donga
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