Donald Trump has a narrow lead over President Biden among voters who dislike both major parties leading in three key battleground states, a poll commissioned by Democrats found.
The former president leads the current president 51% to 48% among so-called “double haters” in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to a poll conducted by Democratic firm GQR on behalf of Biden’s super PAC Unite the Country, first. reported by NBC News.
The pair are tied at 50% each among likely voters in the three states.
“Double haters” account for about 16% of the total sample of 3,000 likely voters — 1,000 in each state — and are more likely to be men with college degrees who consider themselves Republicans.
Of that cohort, 59% said they had a “very unfavorable” view of Trump, 77, while 49% said the same of 80-year-old Biden.
“By identifying and understanding the specific characteristics of these voters, as we did with undecided Biden voters in 2020, we can engage them strategically through a combination of television and digital channels,” Unite the Country said in a memo.
“This will allow us to show why a vote for Biden, and subsequently against Trump, is an important vote for the United States.”
Donald Trump touts a narrow advantage over President Biden at the national level as well as in key states.AP
Trump won all three states in upsetting Hillary Clinton to win the White House in 2016, the first Republican to win since Ronald Reagan in 1984 and the first to win any of the three states since George HW Bush in 1988.
Biden returned all three states to the Democratic column in 2020, but Trump will return to the presidency if he wins all the states he won in the last election and repeats his achievements from 2016.
The latest polling data from RealClearPolitics shows Trump leading Biden in Pennsylvania by an average of 1.6 percentage points and in Michigan by an average of 0.4 percentage points.
President Biden has struggled in recent weeks with a war in Israel and a fractious Congress. AFP via Getty Images
During last year’s midterm elections, Democrats retained the Pennsylvania governorship and flipped the Senate seat once held by retiring Pat Toomey. In Michigan, Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer won re-election while Republican Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson narrowly won re-election over Democrat Mandela Barnes.
Trump also has a slim 0.7 percentage point lead over Biden in the national RCP poll aggregate. No Republican has won the popular vote in a general election since 2004.
The poll found that reluctance among “double haters” to vote for Trump can be traced to his attempts to stay in power after the 2020 election and the four criminal cases against him.
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