The things Americans are most worried about are things they prefer Biden to deal with
Polling since the party conventions continues to show former vice president Joe Biden with a national lead. We all know how much good that does him, given the results in 2016 — but Biden also leads in most swing states.
Why? In part because Biden is generally viewed as better able than President Trump to deal with the flurry of problems facing the country. Polling consistently shows that Biden is preferred on dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and on race relations, for example. Trump generally has an advantage on the economy, but it’s a relatively modest one.
One of the main problems Trump faces at the moment is that the issues about which Americans feel the most urgency are the ones for which they prefer Biden to be president.
Gallup regularly asks Americans what they identify as the most important problem facing the country. There are some constants, like the economy, but it ebbs and flows month over month as issues emerge and then fade from prominence.
The pattern looks like this. Don’t worry about what the colors represent; we’ll get to the important ones in a minute.
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