(DailyAnswer.org) – Former President Donald Trump has maintained popularity among voters in key swing states as well as making gains with African-American, Hispanic and young voters, according to recent polls.
Trump is leading in five out of six swing states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania. President Joe Biden narrowly held onto a lead of 47%-45% against Trump among registered voters in Wisconsin. In the other key states Trump’s hypothetical result including both registered and likely voters was consistently around the 50% mark, whereas Biden’s percentage ranged between 38% and 46%.
When the poll took third party contenders into account, Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won 10% of the hypothetical vote in the six states, and appeared to claim votes from both Biden and Trump in equal measure. Following pressure on Biden to prove that he is fit for another term in the White House and able to debate Trump, the two rivals have agreed to TV debates in June and September as the country approaches November’s presidential election. Kennedy has repeatedly encouraged both Biden and Trump to debate him. Following a revelation about past health issues caused by a parasitic worm in his brain that he has since recovered from, Kennedy offered to consume five more brain worms and still beat both candidates in a debate.
Kennedy commented in an X post on May 15 that the Republicans and Democrats were deliberately excluding him from a debate out of fear he would handle it better than either Biden or Trump. According to Jen O’Malley Dillon, chairwoman of Biden’s campaign, the president made his demands clear to Trump for a one-on-one debate, which the former president accepted.
The poll data also shows the impact of the conservative-led Supreme Court’s verdict in 2022 that abortion is a state issue rather than a federal one. Roughly 20% of voters held Biden responsible for the ruling instead of Trump. Biden, Trump and Kennedy have all shown conflicted positions on abortion, displaying a shift in policy over the years; Trump was criticized by both conservatives and liberals after he argued that states should be able to make their own decisions on reproductive rights. Biden began to focus more on supporting abortion in 2022, despite being personally against it himself and vowing to oppose federal funding of the procedure. Kennedy adopted a similarly pragmatic stance, but as a practicing Catholic like Biden, has since stated that he is against full-term abortion.
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