Third-party presidential candidates could give President Joe Biden a boost above former President Donald Trump in November, according to a NBC News poll published Sunday.Preliminary polling leading up to Election Day has showed Biden and Trump to be in for a tight race. While the former president has recently appeared to take the lead in several key swing states like Arizona and Michigan, several national polls have favored Biden winning, often by only a handful of percentage points.Several...
President Joe Biden received bad news on the economy just before his visit to Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday.Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that inflation has struggled to progress towards the central bank's target band and that policymakers need more "confidence" that inflation was cooling before they can lower interest rates. A delay in rate cuts could be a blow to Biden as it suggests that borrowing costs are likely to stay higher for longer, stifling areas of the economy...
Publisher of The Bulwark Sarah Longwell joins The Weekend to discuss the latest NBC News polling on the 2024 presidential elections. The poll shows Trump is narrowly ahead of Biden by 2 points among registered voters in a head-to-head race.
As Donald Trump fronts up to a Manhattan court this week for his latest lawfare flogging from Democrats, Biden boosters are doing their best to trumpet a poll turnaround for the president.
Although it hardly looks like it, President Joe Biden may already be peaking in his race to keep the White House. His biggest internal threat remains: his inability to campaign effectively. And his biggest external threat looms: Though the country seems to expect a soft landing from inflation’s heights, this week’s economic data prove Biden’s […]
With his Stormy Daniels trial about to begin, Trump’s novelty value may finally be fading. Then again, this is the land of the surrealIt is a mark of the bleakness of expectations among American Democrats that, this week, President Biden’s slight rise in the polls has been seized on as cause for giddiness. I did it myself. This was it! The beginning of the correction. Finally, the toll of various lawsuits and expensive judgments was coming home to roost in the form of a drag on Donald Trump’s...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. takes more from Donald Trump than President Biden in this year's election, according to new NBC News polling. The Morning Joe panel discusses.
Joe Biden is now beating Donald Trump in the majority of recent polls, just seven months before the presidential election.Last month it was confirmed that the pair will face off against each other in November, with Biden and Trump both winning enough delegates to secure their respective parties' presidential nomination and teeing up a rematch of the 2020 election.Since then, analysis has turned to who will come up on top. So far, polls have been fairly evenly split, with commentators suggesting...
The latest national NBC News poll finds the third-party vote — and especially independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — cutting deeper into former President Donald Trump’s support than President Joe Biden’s, though the movement the other candidates create is within the poll’s margin of error. Trump leads Biden by 2 percentage points in a head-to-head matchup, 46% to 44%, in the new NBC News poll. Yet when the ballot is expanded to five named candidates, Biden is the one with a...
The share of voters who say they have high interest in the 2024 election has hit a nearly 20-year low at this point in a presidential race, according to the latest national NBC News poll, with majorities holding negative views of both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. The poll also shows Biden trimming Trump’s previous lead to just 2 points in a head-to-head contest, an improvement within the margin of error compared to the previous survey, as Biden bests Trump on the issues...
The Trump campaign on Thursday hit back at President Biden, accusing him of hypocrisy after it was revealed that staffers working on his campaign and at the White House privately refer to former President Donald Trump as “Hitler Pig” in communications.