Trump would beat Biden by six points and Kamala by 11 if the election were held today, another terrible poll for the White House and Democrats shows
- The same poll also shows Kamala Harris narrowly beating Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by two points in a hypothetical match in 2024
- It comes after an NBC poll on Sunday brought Biden to his lowest approval rating yet
- Biden has expressed interest in re-election, but Trump is yet to say for sure if he will campaign, despite numerous hints
- Democrats are concerned that Biden’s low approval ratings are reducing their chances of retaining a narrow majority in Congress in November’s midterm elections
Donald Trump would beat both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in respective hypothetical duels if the 2024 election were held today, suggests a new poll released Tuesday.
The Republican former president leads Biden by six points in the latest Harvard CAPS-Harris poll, obtained exclusively by The Hill, over Biden, another terrible poll for a White House plagued by plummeting approval ratings and multiple crises .
47 percent of pollsters would support Trump in 2024, compared to 41 percent who support Biden. Twelve percent said they were undecided.
Harris scores even worse than her boss, 11 percentage points behind Trump.
The vice president received 38 percent of the hypothetical votes, while Trump had 49 percent — two points more than he would score against Biden.
While Biden has stated his intention to run for a second term, Trump has repeatedly teased a 2024 bid but has yet to say for sure if he will launch a third presidential campaign.
And when Biden chose Harris as his running mate and made history in the process, it was widely assumed she would be the one to take his mantle when the 79-year-old commander-in-chief was done.
But her deep unpopularity — even greater than Biden’s — has left activists worried about who to nominate in the next presidential election cycle.
Perhaps good news for Harris is that she came out on top in a hypothetical match against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The GOP governor scored 38 percent of support in the Harvard poll, with Harris slightly higher at 40 percent.
Donald Trump has made numerous hints that he wants to launch a third presidential campaign, though he hasn’t safely thrown his hat in the ring just yet
The former House Republican, who was elected leader of the Sunshine State with Trump’s support, has been a rising star within the GOP, particularly with his vocal criticism of the Biden administration and opposition to its COVID-19 public health guidelines .
He has come second to Trump in several GOP voter polls around 2024, although the former president has so far been widely regarded as the favorite candidate.
Though the presidential election is still a long way off, Biden’s unpopularity still bodes ill for Congressional Democrats, who are looking to retain their narrow majority in November’s midterm elections.
A recent NBC poll released Sunday shows Republicans have a slight advantage over Democrats in the upcoming races. 46 percent of voters said they would prefer Republicans to control Congress in 2023, compared to 44 percent who favor Democrats remaining in power.
NBC’s last poll in January had Democrats by a slight advantage over the GOP for a 47 percent to 46 percent margin.
The same poll shows Biden’s 40 percent approval rating, the lowest number NBC has recorded in the Democrat’s presidency to date.
They also grapple with pervasive supply chain problems and record 40-year inflation, both of which are skyrocketing the cost of living for millions of Americans.
Russia’s war in Ukraine is also taking its toll on Biden’s tenure in the White House. Aside from soaring prices at the pump, multiple polls show that US voters both fear an impending war with Moscow and have little faith in their president to handle the international crisis.
Sunday’s poll asked respondents “how much confidence” they have in Biden’s ability to direct Russia’s brutal onslaught.
The largest proportion – 44 percent – said they have “very little” trust in the president, while 27 percent have “only some” trust in him, making the total 71 percent.
Tuesday’s poll shows Trump ahead of both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, both of whom suffer from low approval ratings
Just 28 percent of Americans polled said they shared “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of support for Biden’s handling of Ukraine — a far cry from the confidence the president, through decades of foreign policy experience, wanted to instill in the Senate.
And a majority of people seem to believe that Biden’s actions to date have put the country on a path into direct conflict with Russia, despite the US’s declared preferred policy of de-escalation through diplomacy.
Sixteen percent of Americans said they believe their nation is already at war with Russia based on how Biden and his officials have handled the crisis. A whopping 44 percent said the devastating conflict “will occur within the next year.”
Only 34 percent were confident that the US would not become involved in a war with Moscow.
And 56 percent of respondents to an Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll Monday said Biden is “not tough enough” and 6 percent believe he is “too tough” on Russia.
36 percent of respondents said the president’s response to Putin was “about right.”
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