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Biden's edge evaporates as Trump seen as better suited for economy, coronavirus
response, poll shows
Chris Kahn
3 MIN READ

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Joe Biden’s advantage over President Donald Trump in
popular support has eroded in recent weeks as the presumptive Democratic
presidential nominee struggles for visibility with voters during the coronavirus
pandemic, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday.

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump departs on travel to the Camp David
presidential retreat from the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, U.S.,
May 1, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
The opinion poll conducted on Monday and Tuesday found that 43% of registered
voters said they would support Biden in the Nov. 3 presidential election, while
41% said they would back Trump. That makes the contest essentially a toss-up, as
the results are within the poll’s credibility interval.

Biden led by 6 percentage points in a similar poll last week and by 8 points in
a poll that ran April 15 to 21.

The former vice president has been forced to run his presidential campaign from
his Delaware home in keeping with restrictions aimed at combating the virus,
which has killed more than 70,000 people in the United States and put 30 million
people out of work.

By contrast, Trump has put himself at the helm of the U.S. pandemic response,
with regular White House briefings until recently.

Some of Biden’s most dominant recent headlines focused on a former U.S. Senate
aide’s allegation that he sexually assaulted her in 1993. Biden said last week
the alleged assault “never happened” and asked the Senate to make public any
documents related to the accusation by Tara Reade, who worked as a staff
assistant in Biden’s Senate office from December 1992 to August 1993.

The political impact of the situation was not yet clear in the Reuters/Ipsos
poll, which showed 53% of the American public said they were “somewhat” or
“very” familiar with Reade’s allegation.

According to the poll, 45% of Americans said Trump was better suited to create
jobs, while 32% said Biden was the better candidate for that. That pushed
Trump’s advantage over Biden in terms of job creation to 13 points, compared
with the Republican president’s 6-point edge in a similar poll that ran in
mid-April.

Thirty-seven percent said Trump was better leading the country’s coronavirus
response, while 35% preferred Biden. A similar poll in mid-April showed Biden
had a slight edge over Trump when it came to the nation’s response to the
disease.

Overall, 42% of Americans said they approved of Trump’s performance in office,
and 53% said they disapproved. The president’s popularity has remained
relatively flat for more than a year.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online, in English, throughout the United
States. It gathered responses from 1,215 American adults, including 1,015 who
identified as registered voters. It had a credibility interval, a measure of
precision, of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Reporting by Chris Kahn; Editing by Peter Cooney
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