by Madeleine Hubbard
Former President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden in five of the six major swing states, according to new polls released Sunday, as voters largely express disapproval of the current president.
Trump leads Biden by 10 points in Nevada, 6 in Georgia, 5 in Arizona, 5 in Michigan and 4 in Pennsylvania, according to new polls by The New York Times and Siena College. He is down by 2 points in Wisconsin.
Biden carried all six of the states in 2020, but now, 59 percent of voters in those states say they disapprove of Biden’s job performance, while 38 percent say they approve.
Meanwhile, 71 percent of respondents said Biden is “too old to be an effective president,” compared to 39 percent who said the same about Trump.
Additionally, 62 percent of voters said Biden does not have the mental sharpness to be an effective president, while just 35 percent said he does. As to Trump’s mental acuity, 54 percent of voters said he is sharp enough to be an effective president compared to 44 percent who said he does not.
More than half of all registered voters surveyed (53 percent) also said Biden’s policies have personally hurt them, while 51 percent of voters said Trump’s policies have personally helped them.
The polls of 3,662 registered voters across the six swing states were taken from Oct. 22 to Nov. 3 and, when taken together, had a 1.8 percent margin of error.
While Trump has not been formally nominated as the Republican presidential nominee for 2024, he is far ahead of all other candidates. While other Democratic candidates are running for the nomination, the Democratic Party has said it fully supports Biden’s reelection bid and will not host primary debates.
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