President Joe Biden has fallen behind former President Donald Trump in five key swing states and is tied with the 2024 Republican frontrunner in Michigan, polling released Thursday shows.
New Morning Consult/Bloomberg surveys show Trump ahead of Biden among registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – four states the Democrat beat the Republican in during their 2020 White House face-off.
Trump also leads Biden in North Carolina, a state that went for Trump in 2016 and 2020.
Biden remains the leader in Nevada – 46 percent to 43 percent – a state he won over Trump in the 2020 race.
In Michigan, both contenders currently receive 44 percent of the vote, with 8 percent of the electorate undecided, the biggest number for any of the states where this polling was conducted.
President Joe Biden (left) is trailing former President Donald Trump in five pivotal swing states – including four that he won in 2020 – according to new polling from Morning Consult and Bloomberg
In all seven cases, the polling differences are within the margin of error, meaning the race is tight.
While Biden has been touting the magic of ‘Bidenomics,’ 51 percent of swing-state voters said they felt the national economy was better off during the Trump years.
Going forward, 49 percent said they would trust Trump with the economy, while 35 percent said the same thing of Biden.
Only 26 percent of voters said Bidenomics has been good for the economy, while 49 percent said Biden’s policies have been bad.
Among swing-state voters who registered the economy as their No. 1 issue, just 14 percent said Bidenomics is working, while 65 percent say it’s not.
Trump is the most dominant on the issue of immigration, followed by the economy, and then crime, U.S.-China relations, guns, the Russia-Ukraine war, the regulation of tech companies and even has a four-point edge on infrastucture, despite Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill being one of his signature legislative achievements.
Biden often mocks Trump for being involved in a scandal every time the Republican president tried to hold a White House infrastructure week.
Biden’s most dominant issue is the curtailing of climate change, followed by abortion, healthcare, democracy, Social Security and Medicare and he holds a slight edge over Trump on education and schools – despite Republicans finding some political success when bringing up issues like Critical Race Theory and parents having more control over K-12 curriculum.
But swing state voters rated the economy as their top issue, with roughly three in four saying it was headed in the wrong direction.
‘Right now, Biden is not getting any credit for work he’s done on the economy,’ Caroline Bye, a pollster and vice president for Morning Consult told Bloomberg. ‘Almost twice as many voters in the swing states are saying that Bidenomics is bad for the economy, which is a really startling fact if you’re the Biden campaign.’
The Biden campaign downplayed the poll, with spokesman Kevin Munoz telling DailyMail.com via email, ‘Predictions more than a year out tend to look a little different a year later.’
He noted how Bloomberg had previously predicted a recession ‘only to say days ago that the U.S. economy is strong and “defying the odds.”‘
‘Or a year out from the 2022 midterms when they similarly predicted a grim forecast for President Biden,’ Munoz continued.
A ‘red wave’ had been predicted last year, but Democrats ended up maintaining control of the Senate and Republicans only flipped the House by a few seats.
Additionally, former President Barack Obama faced similar doom-and-gloom polls a year out from his 2012 election win against Republican Mitt Romney.
‘Coming off those historic midterms, President Biden’s campaign is hard at work reaching and mobilizing our winning coalition of voters more than one year out on a winning, popular agenda,’ Munoz said.
‘We’ll win in 2024 by putting our heads down and doing the work, not by fretting about a poll,’ he added.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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