In a polling double tap on the Democratic presidential ticket, President Trump for the first time has edged in front of Joe Biden in his bid for reelection, and he’s reached his highest approval rating for the year.
The just-issued Rasmussen Reports surveys put Trump’s approval rating at 52% after a string of 51% marks. He reached 52% two other times this year.
And the pollster’s weekly race review released at noon had Trump nudging ahead of Biden, 47%-46%.
“President Trump has now edged to a one-point lead over Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the latest Rasmussen Reports’ weekly White House Watch survey. While statistically insignificant, it’s the first time Trump has been ahead,” said the poll analysis.
It added: “The race has narrowed over the past two weeks. Biden had a two-point lead last week, but that survey also marked the first time Trump had edged above 45% over the past two-and-a-half months. Prior to this week, Biden has bested Trump in every weekly survey since White House Watch began at the beginning of July.”
Other national polls show Biden still in the lead, though it has been shrinking. Rasmussen is the first to show a Trump lead.
Notably, Rasmussen, which called Hillary Clinton’s margin of popular vote win in 2016 accurately, did not oversample Democrats like many other pollster do. Of its likely voter count, 37 were Democrats, 33% Republican and 31% independent.
Many analysts believe that the campaign will tighten and be won in the final days of November, just like in 2016 when Trump pulled off an Electoral College victory over Clinton.
Rasmussen said that both Biden and Trump hold 80% of their base. And it said that Trump is attracting minorities. “Trump shows surprising strength among other minority voters, suggesting perhaps that he is attracting Hispanic support as violent racial protests continue in many major cities,” said the analysis.
Both campaigns have been confident in their polling showing an eventual win.
A key to past reelection victories has been a national approval rating of about 50%. Trump’s average has been well below that over his three-plus years in office, but like Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, he appears to be peaking just in time.
Recent controversies have apparently not affected his approval rating and may have provoked a backlash among his enthusiastic supporters.
And he’s also scored some wins, including the Israel, United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain peace deal signed at the White House on Tuesday and the decision by the Big Ten football league to change course and play.
The next key flashpoint in the contest will be the Trump-Biden debates.
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This is an existential election. The Democrats must be defeated and the Republicans must deliver on their destruction. If not, the USA will come to an end. I am not optimistic about the Republicans. There are to many unidentified Romney, Flake and Kasich bought whores.
The idea that Biden was ever ahead of anyone is laughable. I want old senile Joe to go on the Joe Rogan show with Trump and talk for a few hours without a teleprompter.
Dr. Jill just checked Joe’s calendar and says it’s full until November.
We have already won.
Now get out there and VOTE TO HUMILIATE.
Break the Dems so bad they will never rise again.
i believe that trump will win but we can’t become overly optimistic–there are just too many da whites out there who are just looking 4 an excuse to vote against trump & 4 a democrat–
just a couple of hours ago i was out at my dumpster tossing some trash & one of the old men in the golf cart brigade came by so we talked 4 a couple of minutes–
“so who ya voting 4?”
me–i’m voting trump,he’s all we got–
“oh no,i heard trump took a bunch of kids away from their parents & killed them,they were never seen again.i can’t vote 4 that no matter how bad we need him.i’m voting 4 biden.”
how do you counteract that?you don’t,which is why we need cliffie,cc,and everyone else to vote–
“…how do you counteract that?”
– Tampa R.
Thorazine?
Let’s hope the results are more like Nixon/McGovern 1972.
But even with that, they will claim Russian interference or some other bullshit. For some reason, the folks can’t fathom that most of America finds pieces of socialist shit like Hillary and Biden so repugnant that they would vote for someone like Trump because he is the only alternative they are given by the two-party conspiracy. It is not an endorsement of Trump. It is a rejection of the democrat and his/her agenda. Maybe if we just held a referendum on the policies, with no faces attached, they would see just how much hatred their is for such an agenda.
“Trump overtakes Biden…” and that doesn’t even count all the deplorables who refuse to answer the polling questions because they assume they are biased to start with.
AOC will lead a write-in campaign to elect FDR’s Ghost.
There is no difference between democrats and republicans.
There is no difference between Biden and Trump.
Wake the fuck up!
Trump understands human nature. He also understands crowd reaction. Look for last minute bumps that will sway voters. Of course, the D-rats will try anything. Grab ’em by the pussy tapes will look so amateurish this time around compared to what they will throw over the fence. Going to make for an interesting 6 weeks.