Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who led President Trump by 12 points just two weeks ago, has seen his lead tumble to just 3 points in the much-watched Rasmussen Reports survey.
In its weekly “White House Watch,” Biden leads Trump, 49%-46%. It was the first time in a month of Rasmussen head-to-head polls that Biden fell below 50%.
The poll echoes another out on Wednesday, the IDB/TIPP survey, that had the race even tighter, 48.1% for Biden to 45.6% for Trump.
The IDB/TIPP poll is often described as one that called the 2016 race. Rasmussen was the one that got the popular vote percentage right between Hillary Clinton and Trump.
Biden’s lead in the IDB/TIPP survey was his smallest.
Helping Trump over the past week was the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, which went well, his back-to-back-to-back campaign rallies, and news in the conservative media about Biden son Hunter’s controversial emails about winning contracts in countries his father had interests in while Barack Obama’s vice president.
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In the Rasmussen poll of 2,500, Trump also had the enthusiasm edge. The analysis said, “Trump earns 82% support among Republicans. Biden has 79% of the Democrat vote and leads by seven among voters not affiliated with either major party. The Democrat had a double-digit lead among unaffiliateds for the two weeks prior to this.”
