Trump's one good 2020 poll just turned against him
Trump’s one good 2020 poll just turned against him
President Trump addresses reporters as he leaves the White House on Monday. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)
By Aaron Blake at the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/11/trumps-one-good-poll-turns-bad/?utm_source=reddit.com
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The new Post-ABC poll is much more in line with other early general-election polls, showing Trump trailing the former vice president among registered voters by double digits and also trailing four other Democrats by four to nine points. Here is what those matchups look like:
..... (Emily Guskin/WaPo-ABC poll)
There are signs not just that Trump is trailing but also that he may be regressing — at least slightly. The Post-ABC poll shows his approval dropping among registered voters from 47 percent in July — what was then a high for his presidency — to 40 percent today. If you look at it and other nationally representative polls, his average approval has dropped from 43 percent in June to 41 percent today. That seems to owe, at least in part, to increasing reservations about the direction of the economy and the fact that his trade war with China is unpopular, with 56 percent of registered voters disapproving and 35 percent approving.
But even if you accept that not much has fundamentally changed, the new poll is bad for Trump. It accounts for Biden’s second-largest lead (15 points) over Trump since beginning his campaign. And Biden’s biggest lead (16 points) came just two weeks ago in a Quinnipiac University poll.
Trump’s nine-point deficit against Sen. Bernie Sanders (52-43) is tied for his second-highest in high-quality national polls. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s seven-point lead (51-44) is tied for her second-biggest, too. And Sen. Kamala D. Harris’s seven-point lead is her third-biggest.
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