A new poll shows President Joe Biden has closed gaps in several battleground states in the days after his first debate against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, which has prompted many to express concern about his mental fitness to serve another term in the White House.
A Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll released Saturday showed Biden trailing Trump 47%-45% in the seven states that will most likely determine the winner of the Nov. 5 presidential election. It marks the second straight month of downward momentum for the former president, who peaked at 49% to the incumbent’s 43% in Bloomberg’s April 24 poll.
The most recent poll, conducted between Monday and Friday, showed Biden leading Trump 47%-44% in Wisconsin, marking his first advantage in that state since March. In Michigan, the incumbent widened his lead to 5 percentage points.
Trump still leads Biden in Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina, but the president came within the margins of error in all three states.
Nevada and Pennsylvania data were welcome developments for Trump. The former president broke what was a tie in June in the Silver State and turned it into a 3-point lead this month, which is still within the margin of error. His 51%-44% lead in the Keystone State, however, is not.
Pennsylvania has been crucial to the outcomes of the last four presidential elections. Its 19 electoral votes are the most among the swing states and the fifth-most overall. Biden won the state by more than 80,000 votes in 2020, and Trump won it by an even smaller margin four years earlier.
The Saturday poll is good news for Biden, which has been scarce since he took the debate stage against Trump late last month. Five House Democrats have called on the president, 81, to withdraw from the race, and he faces a growing list of donors who have threatened to withhold their contributions unless the Democratic Party replaces him at the top of the ticket.
Despite the noise, Biden has remained adamant that he will remain in the race.
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“If the Lord Almighty came down and said, ‘Joe, get out of the race,’ I’d get out of the race,” Biden told ABC News’s George Stephanopolous on Friday. “The Lord Almighty’s not coming down.”
Biden and Trump are scheduled to meet again on the debate stage on Sept. 10, just under two months before their general election rematch.
