President Joe Biden has closed his lead in several battleground states days after his first debate with Republican front-runner Donald Trump, according to a new poll, which has many expressing concern about his mental health to serve another term in the White House.
a Bloomberg NewsA Morning Consult poll released Saturday found Biden trailing Trump 47% to 45% in the seven states likely to determine the winner of the Nov. 5 presidential election. This marks a two-month downward trend in which the former president’s approval rating peaked at 49%, below the incumbent’s 43%. Bloomberg Poll conducted on April 24th.
The latest polls, conducted Monday through Friday, showed Biden leading Trump in Wisconsin, 47% to 44%, giving him his first lead in the state since March. In Michigan, the incumbent Biden widened his lead by 5 percentage points.
Trump still leads Biden in Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina, but the president is within the margin of error in all three states.
The data from Nevada and Pennsylvania were a welcome development for Trump: The former president broke a tie in the Silver State in June and took a 3-point lead this month that’s still within the margin of error, but his 51%-44% lead in the Keystone State is also outside the margin of error.
Pennsylvania has played a pivotal role in the outcome of the past four presidential elections. Its 19 electoral votes are the most of any battleground state and the fifth-most overall. Biden won the state by more than 80,000 votes in 2020, and Trump won it by an even narrower margin four years ago.
Saturday’s poll is good news for Biden, whose approval ratings have been low since he debated Trump late last month. Five House Democrats have called on the 81-year-old president to drop out of the race and a growing list of donors are threatening to withhold contributions unless Democrats put Biden at the top of the ticket.
Despite the uproar, Biden remains adamant that he will continue to campaign.
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“If the almighty God came down and said, ‘Joe, get out of the election,’ I would get out of the election,” Biden told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on Friday. “The almighty God is not going to come down.”
Biden and Trump are scheduled to face off again in a debate on September 10, about two months before the general election rematch.
