US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) are now practically tied in their presidential race, with Trump having a lead of 46% compared to the president’s 45%, according to a survey published this Saturday by The New York Times and Siena.
This is an improvement for Biden from late February, when Trump had a stronger lead of 48% to the Democrat’s 43%.
The tight results of this survey are one more sign that the next presidential elections in November could be very close, just as happened in the last two elections.
To conduct this survey, which has a margin of error plus or minus 3.3 percentage points, 1,059 registered American voters were interviewed between April 7 and 11.
The survey did not ask about possible other candidates, but about 5% volunteered the names of other candidates they planned to vote for, such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Democrat-turned-independent and nephew of former President John F. Kennedy.
The results of this poll show that Biden’s advance is due to his better position among traditional Democratic voters, as he is winning a greater share of voters who supported him in 2020 than a month ago.
For his part, Trump had already secured the support of many more of his previous voters compared to the president, but that margin has narrowed.
Trump would now win the vote of 94% of his 2020 supporters and Biden 89% of his supporters from four years ago.
However, most voters think that Biden, 81, is too old and that Trump, 77, has committed serious federal crimes.
The survey comes just before Trump’s historic criminal trial on charges of falsifying business documents to help cover up an affair with a porn actress that will begin on Monday.EFE
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