Biden's edge evaporates as Trump seen as better suited for
economy, coronavirus response, poll shows
By Reuters
·
May, 0203 2020
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Joe Biden’s advantage over
President Donald Trump in popular support has eroded in recent weeks as the
presumptive Democratic presidential nominee struggles for visibility with
voters during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll
released on Tuesday.
The opinion
poll conducted on Monday and Tuesday found that 43% of registered voters said
they would support Biden in the Nov. 3 presidential election, while 41% said
they would back Trump. That makes the contest essentially a toss-up, as the
results are within the poll’s credibility interval.
Biden led by
6 percentage points in a similar poll last week and by 8 points in a poll that
ran April 15 to 21.
The former
vice president has been forced to run his presidential campaign from his
Delaware home in keeping with restrictions aimed at combating the virus, which
has killed more than 70,000 people in the United States and put 30 million
people out of work.
By contrast,
Trump has put himself at the helm of the U.S. pandemic response, with regular
White House briefings until recently.
Some of Biden’s most dominant recent
headlines focused on a former U.S. Senate aide’s allegation that he sexually
assaulted her in 1993. Biden said last week the alleged assault “never
happened” and asked the Senate to make public any documents related to the
accusation by Tara Reade, who worked as a staff assistant in Biden’s Senate
office from December 1992 to August 1993.
The political impact of the
situation was not yet clear in the Reuters/Ipsos poll, which showed 53% of the
American public said they were “somewhat” or “very” familiar with Reade’s
allegation.
According to the poll, 45% of
Americans said Trump was better suited to create jobs, while 32% said Biden was
the better candidate for that. That pushed Trump’s advantage over Biden in
terms of job creation to 13 points, compared with the Republican president’s
6-point edge in a similar poll that ran in mid-April.
Thirty-seven percent said Trump
was better leading the country’s coronavirus response, while 35% preferred
Biden. A similar poll in mid-April showed Biden had a slight edge over Trump
when it came to the nation’s response to the disease.
Overall, 42% of Americans said
they approved of Trump’s performance in office, and 53% said they disapproved.
The president’s popularity has remained relatively flat for more than a year.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was
conducted online, in English, throughout the United States. It gathered
responses from 1,215 American adults, including 1,015 who identified as
registered voters. It had a credibility interval, a measure of precision, of
plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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