There is a strong possibility that the U.S. presidential election in November will be a rematch between current President Joe Biden of the Democratic Party and former President Donald Trump of the Republican Party, and former President Trump is said to be ahead of President Biden by a narrow margin on the 1st (local time). appear.
The US news channel CNN commissioned public opinion polling agency SSRS to conduct a survey of 1,212 adults from the 25th to the 30th of last month, and released the results of the question ‘If an election were held between two people today’ (margin of error ± 3.4 percentage points (p), margin of error ±3.8 percentage points for the 983 registered voters who participated in the survey, 49% of registered voters responded that they supported former President Trump, and 45% supported President Biden.
While former President Trump was ahead by 4 percentage points, 5% responded that they would vote for someone else. This is the same as the results of a CNN investigation conducted by the same organization in November last year.
CNN reported, “President Biden’s approval rating among those who traditionally support the Democratic Party, such as young people and voters of color, has not increased since the survey last fall.”
According to this, voters under the age of 35 were almost evenly divided, with 49% supporting President Biden and 46% supporting former President Trump. Voters of color supported President Biden (57%) more than former President Trump (35%).
Americans’ favorability ratings for both men were negative, with 59% for President Biden and 55% for former President Trump.
When these people were selected as the party’s presidential candidates, the number of people wanting to see other independent candidates run from each party was also high. 43% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independent respondents, and 40% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independent respondents, answered this question.
However, CNN said, “According to opinion polls, third-party or independent candidates running for president are popular, but it is rare for third-party candidates to actually receive a lot of support.”
CNN also reported that about 8 out of 10 Republican voters said they would be satisfied even if former President Trump became president again, and about three-quarters of Democratic voters responded similarly positively about President Biden’s presidency.
Republican voters’ biggest concern about former President Trump was his ‘rough or rude personality.’ CNN said, “The proportion has increased from 8% last summer to 15% now.” 8% responded that he was in a legal situation, such as being found guilty.
The Democratic Party’s concern about President Biden is his age (81 years old), with nearly half (46%) raising this issue.
In addition, CNN reported, “New concerns about President Biden have emerged, with 5% saying their main concern is how he will handle the conflict between Israel and Hamas.”
Meanwhile, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, who is running against former President Trump as the Republican primary candidate, was far ahead of President Biden by getting 52% of the vote when facing off against President Biden (39%).
In response to this, 63% of former Ambassador Haley’s supporters responded that opposing President Biden was more important than supporting former Ambassador Haley.
Regarding former Ambassador Haley, a majority of Americans responded that they ‘didn’t know enough’ (42%) and had a more negative opinion (32%) than a positive opinion (25%).
Even among Republicans and Republican-leaning voters, former Ambassador Haley’s favorability rating (31%) was far behind that of former President Trump (71%).
Source: Donga
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