US President Joe Biden is trailing his predecessor and Republican rival Donald Trump in six of seven key states as the two candidates prepare for a tight battle in the November 5 US presidential election, according to a new poll released on Wednesday.
A survey conducted by Bloomberg News and the agency Morning Consult attributed the decline in the popularity of the Democratic candidate to a sense of pessimism among voters about the prospects of the world’s largest economy.
The majority of respondents expect the economy to deteriorate by the end of the year, according to this public opinion survey conducted online from April 8 to 15.
The poll shows that the occupant of the White House leads in only one of the seven key states where, to a large extent, presidential elections are being played. This is Michigan where Biden has a slight 2% lead.
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The US chief executive is slightly behind in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, while the gap between him and his rivals in Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina is wider.
“The results are largely a return to the state of the presidential race, before a strong State of the Union address appeared to boost Biden in March to his best performance in the monthly poll“, Bloomberg indicates in the analysis of the results.
The health of the economy remains a top concern for American voters in the context of persistent inflation and its impact on purchasing power.
On Tuesday, US Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell signaled that the latest inflation data raised uncertainty about the timing of interest rate cuts later this year. Interest rates are at their highest level in the last 23 years, ranging from 5.25% to 5.5%.
Most voters in key states expect economic conditions to worsen in the coming months. One in five voters say they expect inflation and borrowing costs to fall by the end of the year. Despite the resilience of the labor market, only 23% of respondents said the employment rate would improve over the same period, according to the US agency.
For undecided voters, whom President Biden is counting on to close the gap with Trump, the share who expect these economic factors to improve remains low, according to the poll. More than three-quarters of those surveyed blame the Biden administration for the current performance of the US economy.
The poll was conducted among 4,969 registered voters in seven key states with a margin of error of 1%.
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