Joe Biden has a double-digit advantage on President Trump in another national poll, with room to expand his base among voters who aren’t tied to either candidate.
Biden has support from 53% of registered voters across the country, compared to Trump’s 41%, according to a Monmouth University Poll released Thursday. Those standings are on par with an early June survey that gave Biden 52% of the vote to the White House incumbent’s 41%. In fact, the two-term vice president’s been in front since March, when he led 48% to 45%.
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“Half of all registered voters have ruled out backing Trump,” said Monmouth University Polling Institute director Patrick Murray, adding almost two-fifths said the same thing about Biden.
On the flip side, 40% were sure of their support for Biden, as opposed to about one-third who felt similarly about the former real estate mogul and reality TV star.
Murray continued: “Trump showed in 2016 that he can thread the needle, but these results suggest the president has even less room for error in 2020. He must convert some of those unlikely supporters if he is to win a second term.”
Researchers also found voters weren’t overwhelmingly concerned about Biden’s physical and mental stamina in contrast to Trump. More than half said they were at least somewhat confident Biden, 77, could carry out his duties as commander in chief if elected in November, while 45% had the same confidence in Trump, 74. Yet a third said they were very confident in Trump’s abilities to the 23% who were just as confident about Biden.
“Biden hasn’t developed the kind of adulation among his base that Trump can count on from his supporters. This seems to be a fairly common trend in the campaign so far and is at least partly due to the Democrat being out of the public eye during the pandemic,” Murray added.
Thursday’s Monmouth University Poll quizzed 733 registered voters via the telephone from June 26-30. The results have a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points.
