Polls show former President Donald Trump is ahead of President Joe Biden in seven battleground states, including Pennsylvania released Tuesday.
Polls showed Trump beating Biden by 2 percent in Pennsylvania. The former president gained the support of 47 percent of respondents compared to Biden’s 45 percent. Eight percent of respondents in Pennsylvania told pollsters they were undecided.
The New Emerson College Polling also showed Trump ahead of Biden in Arizona and Georgia, where data showed that if the election were held today, the former president would beat Biden by 4% and 3% of the vote, respectively.
They also found that Trump has a 1 percent lead over Biden in Michigan and Nevada, a 5-point lead in North Carolina and a 2 percentage point lead in Wisconsin. Pollsters reported a margin of error of 3 percent and the survey was conducted between April 25 and 29.
Respondents similarly expressed low levels of approval for Biden, with 51 percent of Pennsylvanians disapproving of the current president.
Biden faced the greatest disapproval in North Carolina, where polls showed just 37 percent of the president’s job performance approved and 53 percent disapproved.
Polls also show Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick is within striking distance of Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA).
The Republican challenger was supported by 42 percent of respondents, while Casey’s support was 46 percent.
McCormick’s latest poll marks a significant improvement over Emerson’s previous poll in February, which showed the Republican trailing the incumbent Democrat by 10 points.
The Republican previously ran for the party’s 2022 U.S. Senate nomination, but ultimately he admitted to the race Dr. Mehmet Oz, who he continued to lose Senator John Fetterman (D-PA).
Emerson’s latest poll may provide additional encouragement to Republicans concerned about the political ramifications of criminal trials against Trump because less than half respondents said New York’s hush money trial was appropriate, with 43.1 percent calling it a “witch hunt.”
An additional 32.7 percent of respondents said they would be more likely to support Trump if convicted, and just 29.7 percent said a conviction would make them less likely to vote for the former president.
A plurality of respondents, 37.6 percent, said a conviction would have no impact on their vote.
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