With just over a year to go before the elections in the United States, Donald Trump has a slight advantage over Joe Biden, with the current president receiving 49% of voting intentions and the Republican 50%, a survey shows.
The CBS/YouGov poll found that 50% of likely voters chose Trump and 49% named Biden as their favorite.
The survey was conducted between September 12 and 15 among a representative sample of approximately 4,000 adult residents of the United States of America.
According to CBS, these results may have to do with doubts about Joe Biden’s health in a second term, but also with the idea that voters feel that they are now worse off financially than with Trump as president.
For example, only 34% of registered voters believe Biden will complete a second term, while 55% think Trump will.
However, a majority of voters who responded to the survey (64%) believe that another confrontation between Trump and Biden means that the American political system is not in good health.
On the other hand, almost half of those surveyed say they are in worse financial shape now than before the pandemic. These voters tend to support Donald Trump, with 71% of voting intentions, the survey found.
According to CBS, Biden is currently losing 7% of those who supported him in 2020, while Trump is only losing 3%.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump declined to answer questions about the Capitol riot in an interview with NBC, saying he would “tell people later at an appropriate time.”
Trump declined to say on “Meet the Press,” on that North American channel, what he was doing on January 6, 2021, after the start of the insurrection, or whether he was making phone calls from the moment his supporters began to force their way into the building.
‘I will not tell you. I’m going to tell people later, at an appropriate time,” Trump told moderator Kristen Welker, after she asked whether the former president had watched the attack on television in a dining room that afternoon. room in the White House.
Trump’s former aides said the former president isolated himself in a room outside the Oval Office to watch and even rewind and review some parts, according to the Associated Press.
In the interview, Trump, under pressure from Welker about his public silence during the violence, said he had made “nice statements” on the day of the attack.
Source: DN
