President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are neck and neck among voters across the country and in swing states, less than two weeks after Trump’s guilty verdict in his New York hush money case .
The poll, released Sunday by CBS News and YouGov, shows that 49% of voters across the country would likely support Biden at this point in the election, and 50% would vote for Trump. But when voters in battleground states were surveyed, 50% would likely vote for Biden and 49% would likely vote for Trump.
Both results fall well within the poll’s margin of error of +/- 3.8 percentage points. It includes oversampling in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The poll was conducted June 5-7, just days after a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to influence the 2016 election.
As for Trump’s guilty verdict, 71% of voters who said they were likely to support Trump this fall responded that it was not a determining factor in their vote for the former president.
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Eighty percent of Republicans surveyed believe Trump was indicted because of instructions from the Biden administration. There is no evidence that the president or other administration officials targeted the former president, who is also the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee.
Fifty-four percent of voters planning to support Biden in the fall said the only reason they were voting for the current president was to oppose Trump.
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Voting Demographics
Looking across different voter demographics, Biden had the support of 81% of Black people surveyed in the CBS News poll, compared to 18% for Trump. Fifty-four percent of women surveyed said they planned to support Biden this fall, and 45% said they planned to vote for Trump.
When it comes to voters over 65, Trump leads Biden 58% to 41%, according to the poll released Sunday. Sixty-four percent of white voters without a degree support Trump, while 36% say they will choose Biden in November.
The first presidential debate of 2024
The first presidential debate of 2024 between Biden and Trump will take place at 9 p.m. ET on June 27. It will be hosted by CNN.
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