The alarm bells at the Biden-Harris headquarters are going off after a new poll of both swing states and the nation shows former President Donald Trump growing his healthy lead over President Joe Biden 109 days before the election.
Emerson College on Thursday released results showing President Trump leading the Democrat incumbent 44% to 38% national, the largest lead he has held all year in the first poll conducted since he was nearly killed in an assassination attempt on Saturday. An initial outpouring of sympathy for Trump appears to have catalyzed the shift in greater support despite pausing a slew of headlines about concern around President Biden’s age. Those results were even more pronounced in eight swing states certain to determine the outcome of the November election.
In Arizona, a state Biden narrowly carried four years ago, Trump now leads by 10%. Georgia, which narrowly went for Biden and elected two Democratic U.S. Senators after Trump lost, now gives Trump a 5% lead. And in Michigan, perhaps the bluest midwestern state besides Illinois, Trump leads Biden 43% to 40%. Leads by the Republican were held or grew across all eight battlegrounds:
