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New polls show Biden slipping further behind Trump in critical swing states [1]

['Geoff Bennett', 'Saher Khan']

Date: 2024-07-10 18:53:33-04:00

Amy Walter:

Yes. That's right.

Well, even if the polls are wrong, what we know before the debate was those three states that we moved from being toss-up, which in our parlance means anybody can win, it's so close, we can't — we really can't put a thumb on the scale either way, from that category to more Republican, is that Biden was trailing by a pretty significant amount in those three states.

Part of the reason that we kept it in that toss-up category is, we know how close the race had the potential to become, especially post-election — I mean, sorry, post-debate. The debate was going to be the opportunity, which we heard time and time again from the Biden campaign, for them to make their case that once the voters who right now maybe they're leaning toward Trump, maybe they are thinking about voting for a third-party candidate, once they see the contrast, once they understand what's at stake, those voters are going to come home to Joe Biden.

It's clear now that those voters, at least again, at this moment in time, are probably, at best, stuck and, in some cases, we're seeing moving a little bit further away from him. So, those states — as I said, those states that were already problematic for Biden pre-debate, they sure look a lot harder for him post-debate.

So now we talk about the three states, Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania, those Midwestern states, that have always been critical for control of the White House. Those — also, we're seeing, again, Trump has been ahead in some of those states, but really by a closer margin.

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[1] Url: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/new-polls-show-biden-slipping-further-behind-trump-in-critical-swing-states

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