{"id":18081,"date":"2023-09-21T06:26:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T11:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=18081"},"modified":"2023-09-21T06:27:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T11:27:00","slug":"dead-heat-new-poll-shows-trump-biden-tied-in-voter-preferences-for-2024-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=18081","title":{"rendered":"Dead Heat: New Poll Shows Trump, Biden Tied in Voter Preferences for 2024 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

White House advisers have urged Democrats to stay calm and carry on, insisting issues such as abortion and disapproval of former US President Donald Trump will ensure a victory for the Biden camp.
A new poll on Tuesday showed US President Joe Biden\u2019s modest lead over his predecessor Donald Trump had evaporated in the 2024 race for the White House.
The poll, released by YouGov and Yahoo News, showed the candidates tied with each of them winning the support of 44% of registered voters. The results mark a shift from a poll by the same firm the previous month that showed Biden with 47% support and Donald Trump with 41%.
A full 7% of registered voters said they were undecided while 4% said they would refuse to vote in a rerun of the 2020 election.
In addition to the horse race numbers,\u00a0a series of other findings\u00a0showed ominous signs for Biden amidst a tightening race. The president\u2019s job approval sunk to 38%, just above his record low of 35% in August 2022.
Meanwhile, only 27% of voters rated Biden as \u201cfit to serve another term as president\u201d while 77% said the octogenarian politician\u2019s age is a problem. Some 47% of Americans believe Biden and his family are corrupt, and only 34% approve of his handling of the country\u2019s economy.
Trump seems to acknowledge his party\u2019s anti-abortion position may prove fatal for him next year. He recently appeared to strike a more moderate tone on the issue, calling Florida\u2019s recently-enacted six-week abortion ban \u201ca terrible thing\u201d in a\u00a0weekend interview\u00a0with US media. The remark was met with criticism from various conservative figures.
The YouGov\/Yahoo News poll comes amidst two other polls this week from Emerson and Morning Consult which also show a tied presidential contest.\u00a0One average of polls\u00a0from various firms showed Trump with a scant .5-percent lead over Biden in voter preference, confirming Americans are currently sharply divided between the two candidates.
But\u00a0surveys consistently show\u00a0both major-party contenders are regarded unfavorably by over half of the voting public. Unpopular candidates have been a persistent feature of US politics since the 2016 election, when polls showed both Trump and then-contender Hillary Clinton were viewed unfavorably by more than 50% of Americans.
Polling earlier this year showed about\u00a0half of voters\u00a0consider themselves to be political independents, dwarfing support for either of the two major parties.\u00a0Polling over the last two decades\u00a0shows 55% of Americans believe a third major party is needed, though the country\u2019s rigid two-party system continues to stymie the emergence of one.
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White House advisers have urged Democrats to stay calm and carry on, insisting issues such as abortion and disapproval of former US President Donald Trump will ensure a victory for the Biden camp.A new poll on Tuesday showed US President Joe Biden\u2019s modest lead over his predecessor Donald Trump had evaporated in the 2024 race […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2892,22583,22582,22580,22581],"class_list":["post-18081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-2024-election","tag-dead-heat","tag-new-poll","tag-trump-vs-biden","tag-voter-preferences-even"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18083,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18081\/revisions\/18083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}