President Joe Biden has fallen behind former President Donald Trump in five key swing states and is tied with the 2024 Republican frontrunner in Michigan, according to polls released Thursday.
New Morning Consult/Bloomberg surveys shows Trump ahead of Biden among registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – four states where the Democrat defeated the Republican in their 2020 White House showdown.
Trump also leads Biden in North Carolina, a state that went for Trump in 2016 and 2020.
Biden remains the leader in Nevada — 46 percent to 43 percent — a state he won from Trump in the 2020 race.
In Michigan, both contenders currently receive 44 percent of the vote, while 8 percent of the electorate is undecided, the largest number for any state where this poll was conducted.
President Joe Biden (left) trails former President Donald Trump in five crucial swing states — including four he won in 2020 — according to new polling from Morning Consult and Bloomberg
In all seven cases, the poll differences are within the margin of error, meaning the race is tight.
While Biden has touted the magic of “Bidenomics,” 51 percent of swing-state voters said they thought the national economy was better off during the Trump years.
Going forward, 49 percent said they would trust Trump with the economy, while 35 percent said the same about Biden.
Only 26 percent of voters said Bidenomics has been good for the economy, while 49 percent said Biden’s policies have been bad.
Among swing-state voters who registered the economy as their No. 1 issue, only 14 percent say Bidenomics is working, while 65 percent say it is not.
Trump is most dominant on immigration, followed by the economy, then crime, US-China relations, weapons, the Russia-Ukraine war, regulation of technology companies, and even has a four-point lead on infrastructure, despite Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill is one of his signature legislative achievements.
Biden often mocks Trump for being involved in a scandal whenever the Republican president tried to hold an infrastructure week at the White House.
Biden’s most dominant issue is mitigating climate change, followed by abortion, health care, democracy, Social Security and Medicare, and he has a slight lead over Trump on education and schools – despite Republicans having some political success in bringing up issues like critical race theory. and parents have more control over the primary and secondary school curriculum.
But swing state voters ranked the economy as their top issue, with about three in four saying it was heading in the wrong direction.
“Right now, Biden is not getting any recognition for his work on the economy,” Caroline Bye, a pollster and vice president of Morning Consult, told Bloomberg. “Nearly twice as many voters in swing states say Bidenomics is bad for the economy, which is a very surprising fact if you are the Biden campaign.”
The Biden campaign downplayed the poll, with spokesman Kevin Munoz telling DailyMail.com via email: “Forecasts more than a year out often look a little different a year later.”
He noted how Bloomberg had previously predicted a recession “only to say a few days ago that the US economy is strong and ‘defying expectations.’”
“Or a year removed from the 2022 midterm elections, when they similarly predicted a dire forecast for President Biden,” Munoz continued.
A ‘red wave’ was predicted last year, but Democrats ultimately retained control of the Senate and Republicans only flipped a few seats in the House of Representatives.
Moreover, former President Barack Obama faced similarly dismal polling a year after his 2012 election victory against Republican Mitt Romney.
“After these historic midterms, President Biden’s campaign is hard at work reaching and mobilizing our winning coalition of voters on a winning, popular agenda more than a year later,” Munoz said.
“We will win in 2024 by putting our heads down and doing the work, not by worrying about a poll,” he added.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
