Donald Trump would beat Joe Biden in US presidential election, new poll shows
Donald Trump would beat Democrat incumbent Joe Biden in a , a shock new poll has shown.
This comes as Trump leads the pack of wannabe Republican contenders and Biden looks to be standing nearly unopposed, laying the groundwork for next year's US elections to be a rematch of the 2020 one.
The poll, from right-wing Fox News, found that Trump and Republican contender Nikki Haley would both beat Biden if they went head to head.
In a hypothetical general election against Biden, Haley is ahead by six points, while Trump is up by four. According to Fox News "neither advantage is statistically significant". If Florida Governor Ron DeSantis went up against Biden they would tie. A similar poll in August found Biden was narrowly ahead of all three of them.
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Trump supporters battle police during the January 6 riots in Washington DC (AFP via Getty Images)Although at one stage being seen as a Republican favourite to take on Trump and then Biden, DeSantis' campaign has floundered. The poll interviewed 1,007 registered voters that were selected at random from the US population.
According to the poll, if the general election were held today with the matchup between Biden and Trump, 50 percent of voters say they would vote for Trump while 46 percent would prefer Biden.
This comes as the Republican presidential front-runner, delivered alarming anti-immigrant remarks about “blood” purity over the weekend, echoing Nazi slogans of World War II to cheers at a political rally.
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“They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” Trump said about the record numbers of immigrants coming to the U.S. without immediate legal status.
Speaking in the early-voting state of New Hampshire, Trump, drew on words similar to Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kempf” as the former U.S. president berated Biden’s team over the flow of migrants. “All over the world they’re pouring into our country,” Trump said.
The Biden administration faces an increasingly difficult political situation as global migration is on a historic rise, and many migrants are fleeing persecution or leaving war-torn countries for the United States, with smugglers capitalising on the situation.
The president is being berated daily by Republicans, led by Trump, as border crossings have risen to levels that make even some in Biden’s own Democratic Party concerned.
US President Joe Biden is facing competition to be re-elected (AFP via Getty Images)But the Biden administration, in considering revival of Trump-like policies, is drawing outrage from Democrats and immigrant advocates who say the ideas would gut the US asylum system and spark fears of deportations from immigrants already living in the US.
Trump’s appearance on Saturday in Durham, New Hampshire, was part of a swing taking the former president through early nominating states as he cites his wide polling lead over a dwindling field of GOP hopefuls. They are trying to block his political comeback as Trump navigates multiple indictments and looks ahead to a potential rematch with Biden.
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“We are going to win the New Hampshire primary, then we are going to crush crooked next November,” Trump said, reminding supporters that he ensured their state would continue to host the nation’s first primary after Iowa’s kickoff caucuses.
“New Hampshire is going to weed out the insincere RINOs ... Republicans in name only,” Trump said, referring to rivals Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor who was endorsed by Trump in 2018, and Nikki Haley, Trump’s former U.N. ambassador. Trump warned that his allies-turned-opponents “will betray you just like they betrayed me.”
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