Presidential candidate Donald Trump benefited significantly from President Joe Biden’s poor performance, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena College.
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump led by a sitting president Joe Biden by as much as six percentage points in a recent report by The New York Times and Siena College in opinion polls.
In Gallup, 43 percent of likely voters would now vote for Biden as president. 49 percent would vote for Trump.
In the NYT/Siena College poll conducted before Biden’s infamous debate appearance, Trump led Biden by only three percentage points.
The latest Gallup has been carried out between 28 June and 2 July.
Likely to vote means the model developed by companies that conduct opinion polls. It separates the group from all respondents who, according to the model, will actually vote.
Among registered voters (the group of Gallup respondents whose actual readiness to vote is not assessed), Trump’s lead is even larger. Of these, 41 percent would vote for Biden and 49 percent for Trump.
Also in this model, Trump’s lead increased by three percentage points after the debate.
Trump’s lead in the presidential race opinion polls is now the largest that has been measured in NYT and Siena College polls since 2015.
According to Gallup, voters’ doubts about Biden’s age have increased in every demographic group. 74 percent of all respondents now think that Biden is too old to be president. In the last poll, 66 percent of the respondents thought so.