Leaked data from the Trump campaign’s internal polls shows Joe Biden beating President Trump by wide margins in key states.
The March numbers show Biden beating the president 55% to 39% in Pennsylvania. In Wisconsin, another state Trump won in 2016, Biden bests the president 51% to 41%, while in Florida, Biden was leading by 7 percentage points, according to ABC News.
Trump leads Biden in Texas, bringing in 2% more support than the former vice president in the Republican stronghold. The numbers from other states have not yet leaked, nor have any other theoretical matchups.
The president has denied the polling data exists, but Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale confirmed their authenticity, but stressed the numbers do not accurately represent the election’s current state of play because of all that has changed in the past few months.
“These leaked numbers are ancient, in campaign terms, from months-old polling that began in March before two major events had occurred: the release of the summary of the Mueller report exonerating the President, and the beginning of the Democrat candidates defining themselves with their far-left policy message,” Parscale said in a statement.
“Since then, we have seen huge swings in the President’s favor across the 17 states we have polled, based on the policies now espoused by the Democrats,” he added.
The polling was conducted before Biden entered the 2020 race in late April. Biden leads the large field of Democratic candidates by a wide polling margin.
A RealClearPolitics national average of general election matchups between the two have Biden leading by an almost a 9-point margin.
