Former Vice President Joe Biden holds a 10-point lead over President Donald Trump ahead of November’s general election, according to a new survey, while Trump’s overall job approval rating has regressed back into negative territory.
An ABC News/Washington Post poll released Sunday reported that 53 percent of registered voters polled said they would cast their ballots for Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, compared to the 43 percent who said they would vote for Trump, the Republican incumbent.
Biden has expanded his advantage significantly since the previous iteration of the poll published two months ago, when he outperformed the president by a margin of 49-47 percent among registered voters.
The latest survey also showed a dip in the president’s approval rating, which slipped to 45 percent in the new poll while his disapproval rating climbed to 53 percent.
The backslide comes after Trump achieved a net-positive approval rating of 48-46 percent in March — the first time in an ABC-Post poll that more Americans approved of the president’s performance than those who did not since he took office.
The ABC-Post poll was conducted last Monday through Thursday, largely before protests and riots began spreading across the country in response to the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, in the custody of Minneapolis police.
It is unclear how the chaos that unfolded in major U.S. cities over the weekend, as well as the president’s harsh rhetoric regarding the protests, will affect his approval among Americans.
Biden’s superiority over Trump in the ABC-Post survey, however, seems to track with other recent polling of the 2020 White House race.
A Fox News poll published last week showed Biden with an 8-point lead over Trump, and an Economist/YouGov poll also released last week showed Biden with a 3-point lead.
According to a RealClearPolitics average of surveys conducted from May 13-28, Biden remains 5.9 points ahead of Trump in general election polling.
The ABC-Post poll was conducted by telephone May 25-28, surveying a random national sample of 1,001 adults. Its margin of sampling error is plus-or-minus 3.5 percentage points.
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