Trump tops Biden by 2 points in new national poll
Former President Trump holds a 2-point lead over President Biden among registered voters across the country as the two prepare for a rematch this November, according to a new survey.
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll, released Thursday, found about 41 percent of registered voters said they would vote for Trump if the election took place today, while 39 percent picked Biden. About 20 percent of voters said they have not picked a candidate, were leaning toward third-party options or might not vote in the election.
This is a flip-flop from a previous Reuters/Ipsos poll, conducted May 31-June 1, which showed the incumbent with a 2-point lead over the former president — or 41 percent to 39 percent respectively — per Reuters.
The latest two-day poll was conducted earlier this week and closed Tuesday, nearly two weeks after Trump was criminally convicted in New York in his hush money case, the news wire noted. The steady support for the former president follows various other polls over the past two weeks suggesting the guilty verdict is not impacting some voters’ choices.
About 61 percent of registered voters in the latest survey said Trump being found guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in an attempt to cover up an alleged past affair ahead of the 2016 election, has not affected their voting plans, pollsters said.
Meanwhile, the president’s son, Hunter Biden was found guilty in a federal gun case this week, making the commander-in-chief the first sitting U.S. president with a criminally convicted child.
The poll, which closed on the same day of the conviction, found 80 percent of surveyed adults said the younger Biden’s conviction was unlikely to change their vote.
Adding independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into the mix, about 10 percent of respondents said they would choose him if he was on the ballot with Trump and Biden, per the survey.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted nationally among 903 registered voters from June 10-11. Trump’s lead for the survey had a margin of error of roughly 3 percentage points, the news wire said.