Monday, July 13, 2020

Biden builds 5-point lead over Trump in Texas: poll






I just turned down some Texas Tea, too. Waiter!


Former Vice President Biden has 46 percent of the vote compared to Trump’s 41 percent, based on a Dallas Morning News-University of Texas Tyler pollreleased Sunday. An additional 14 percent of voters said they were undecided.
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Kenneth Bryant Jr., a UT-Tyler political scientist who helped design the poll, told the Dallas Morning News Biden’s slight boost comes from a softening of support for Trump among independents and “weak partisans.”

Who could have “softened” Trumpie’s support?



“While President Trump has and still enjoys near universal approval from Republicans, and overwhelming disfavor from Democrats, he has lost considerable ground among the folks in the middle, who may ultimately decide who wins Texas in November,” Bryant said.
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A separate CBS News poll released Sunday found Trump and Biden in statistical dead heat in Texas, with Trump at 46 percent and Biden at 45 percent.

The Dallas Morning News-UT Tyler poll was conducted between June 29 and July 7. It surveyed 1,909 registered voters. The margin of error is 2.24 percent.


Biden leads Trump in Florida, tied in Arizona and Texas: poll

(This is the CBS poll cited in the above article)

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is leading President Trump in Florida, according to a new poll, and is tied with the president in two other key swing states Trump carried in 2016: Arizona and Texas.

“Swing states”! Ho-ho-ho. Texas hasn’t swung Democratic since 1976! Trump! Look out!


Biden has a 6-point lead over Trump in Florida, based on the CBS News poll released Sunday. The former vice president has 48 percent support and Trump has 42 percent in the Sunshine State.

In Texas, the candidates are in statistical dead heat, with Trump at 46 percent and Biden at 45 percent.

Trump and Biden both have 46 percent support in Arizona.

Biden had overwhelming support — 72 percent in Arizona, 67 percent in Florida and 68 percent in Texas — among voters who are "very concerned" about COVID-19, pollsters found.

The margins of error for the Arizona, Florida and Texas surveys are 3.8 percentage points, 3.5 percentage points and 3.3 percentage points, respectively.