A new poll shows voters believe former Vice President Joe Biden could beat President Trump in a fistfight.
The new Public Policy Polling survey shows that 37 percent of voters believe Biden would win in a fistfight against the president, while 32 percent said Trump would win. Thirty percent of respondents did not have an opinion.
The poll comes after a round of exchanges between Trump and Biden saying one would beat up the other.
Biden said earlier this month at an anti-sexual assault rally at the University of Miami that he would have taken Trump “behind the gym and beat the hell out of him” if they were in high school.
Trump responded to the comment on Twitter, calling Biden “crazy” and “weak.”
Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault. He doesn’t know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way. Don’t threaten people Joe!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 22, 2018
Vice President Mike Pence even chimed in on the exchange this month in a radio interview.
“You know who I’d be betting on,” Pence said. “It’s just a little bit of trash talk going on, just gotta make you chuckle in American politics today.”
This is not the first time Biden and Trump have engaged in this kind of “trash talk.”
During the presidential campaign in 2016, Biden said, “I wish we were in high school. I could take him behind the gym,” at a rally for Hillary Clinton after Trump’s infamous 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape was released.
Trump responded to Biden’s remarks at a Florida campaign rally of his own, mocking the former vice president as “Mr. Tough Guy.”
“He wants to bring me to the back of the barn. Ohhhh,” Trump said mockingly. “Some things in life you can really love doing.”
