Rebecca Zeljko
Former President Donald Trump has widened his lead over President Joe Biden following an assassination attempt on his life on Saturday, according to a Morning Consult poll released Friday.
Trump is leading Biden by four percentage points, with 46 percent support to Biden’s 42 percent, just days after 20 years ancient Thomas Matthew Crooks shots fired to the former president during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, According to to the poll. The four-point lead is Trump’s largest in the polls since February and is only one point shy of his record five-point lead over Biden in January.
The assassination attempt narrowly missed Trump, wounding him in the ear and killing a 50-year-old volunteer firefighter. Corey Comparison and injuring two other people.
The attempted assassination is the latest in a series of events that have tilted polls in Trump’s favor. In the wake of Biden’s dismal debate performance and Trump’s 34 felony convictions in a case brought by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Alvin Bragg, Trump’s approval ratings have risen five points, according to the poll.
Both Bragg Process and presidential debate led to a series of feeble polls that put Biden at a disadvantage and strengthened Trump’s position in November.
Trump’s favorability within the party is stronger among GOP voters, with 91 percent of registered Republicans backing Trump in the election, while 85 percent of Democrats support Biden, according to the poll. More independents supported Trump than Biden, with 38 percent saying they would vote for the former president and 32 percent saying they would vote for the incumbent president.
Biden’s support within his own party is waving after his first appearance in the presidential debate, which caused a lot of significant Democrats Down publicly call on Biden to withdraw from the race.
Trump maintains a steady lead in all seven key states, but has also seen a slight uptick in polls since the failed July 15 attack, According to to RealClearPolling poll averages. In the head-to-head race, Trump currently leads Biden in Georgia by an average of four points, in North Carolina by an average of 5.7 points, in Pennsylvania by an average of 4.5 points, in Michigan by an average of 1.7 points, in Wisconsin by an average of 3.3 points, in Nevada by an average of 5.1 points and Arizona by an average of six points.
The Morning Consult poll surveyed 9,414 registered voters from July 15 to 17 and has a margin of error of one percentage point.
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Rebecca Zeljko is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Trump and Vance” by Dana Scavino.
