Voters in states where both Democrats and Republicans could win said they trust Donald Trump more than incumbent President Joseph Biden on the economy, foreign policy and immigration, as Biden's multiracial base shows signs of waning, a New York Times-Sienna poll showed. college.
Biden trails Trump in five of the six most important states a year before the 2024 election, suffering from overwhelming doubts about his age and deep dissatisfaction with his handling of the economy and a host of other issues, poll results show.
The results show Biden losing to Trump, his most likely Republican rival, by three to 10 percentage points among registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
President Biden has an advantage only in Wisconsin, by two percent, according to a survey, the New York Times reports.
According to the poll, Biden and Trump are deeply unpopular. But voters who overwhelmingly said the nation is on the wrong track are taking their frustration out on the current president.
"The world is falling apart under Biden," said Spencer Weiss, a 53-year-old electrical substation specialist from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, who supported Biden in 2020 but now backs Trump, with some reservations.
"I would prefer to see someone who I think can be a positive role model and leader in the country. But at least I think Trump has enough sense about him," said Weiss.
Voters under 30 — the group that overwhelmingly voted for Biden in 2020 — said they trust Trump more on the economy after years of inflation and now high interest rates that have made mortgages far less affordable.
Less than 30 percent of respondents under XNUMX rated the current economy as excellent, including zero respondents in that age group in three states: Arizona, Nevada and Wisconsin.
"I actually had high hopes for Biden," said Jameri Henry, a 25-year-old who packages alcohol in Albany.
"You can't be worse than Trump. But as the years go by, things happen with inflation, the war going on in Ukraine, recently Israel and I guess our borders are not secure at all," he pointed out.
Now Henry plans to support Trump.
"I don't see anything he's done to benefit us," said Patricia Flores, 39, of Reno, who voted for Biden in 2020 but will not back him again in 2024.
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