With exactly 100 days to go to the 2020 US Presidential Elections, presumptive Democratic candidate Joe Biden leads incumbent President Donald Trump in the opinion polls by 8 percentage points.
Over the past week, with Trump’s pivot to a pro-mask stance to battle Covid-19 and other moves, he goes up 1 percentage point compared to last week based on an average of several poll results.
According to the latest poll by Reuters/Ipsos, former Vice President Biden garnered the backing of 46% of registered voters while 38% backed Trump and 16% of voters remain undecided, may support a third party or may not vote in the November 3 elections.
Currently, based on an average of popular US pollsters, Biden leads with 49.3% of support from registered voters, compared to 41% of potential voters’ support that Trump enjoys.
Both candidates have focussed their campaigns to woo the third, undecided category of potential voters towards them, which may result in a close call in November. If forced to vote, 61% of undecided voters would choose Biden over Trump, the poll found.
With a low approval rating of 41.1% among registered voters, President Trump is on the backfoot heading into the elections, amidst a pandemic and an unemployment crisis. Trump has the least support in the 2020 elections from the state of Massachusetts, polling 19 percentage points behind Biden with 30% support from registered voters. Biden on the other hand polled 31%, behind Trump’s 66% in West Virginia.
According to an ABC News/Washington Post poll, Trump’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic plummeted from 46% in late May to just 38% in mid-July. Losing the approval of Democrats, Independents and Republicans alike.