PNN – The results of a new poll showed that Joe Biden and Donald Trump are getting equal votes in a hypothetical race for the presidency.
According to the International group of Pakistan News Network, the results of a new survey conducted by the Ipsos polling company for the Reuters news agency showed that Joe Biden, the current president of the United States, and Donald Trump, the former president and his possible Republican opponent in the 2024 presidential election, are starting the election year with an equal and shoulder-to-shoulder competition.
While the Republican primary race to determine the party’s presidential candidate officially begins next Monday in the state of Iowa, 35 percent of respondents to this national poll said they would vote for Joe Biden, while the same percentage said they would vote for Donald Trump.
Nearly a third of the respondents said that they do not support either of these two candidates. 13% said that they will not vote at all in the elections, while 9% said that they will support another candidate and 8% said that they are still not sure of their decision.
In response to the question of which one they would choose if forced to choose between Biden and Trump, both of them got an equal 48% of the vote.
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In another part, this poll revealed the clear desire of a significant part of the voters for a third candidate.
In a hypothetical three-way race with Trump, Biden and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent candidate and nephew of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, voted 18 percent for Kennedy, 29 percent for Biden, and 30 percent for Trump.
The survey was conducted among a randomly selected, nationwide sample of 4,677 American adults.
The aforementioned survey showed in another part that in the competition with his rivals in the Republican primaries, Donald Trump is superior to them by a margin of more than 37%, and in connection with the Democratic primaries, he also showed that none of Biden’s two rivals in this competition won more than two percent of votes.
This survey showed that a bipolarity has been created in the field of American politics in such a way that 76 percent of Democrats said they would vote for Joe Biden in the November 5 election, and 76 percent of Republicans also said they would vote for Donald Trump in this election.
Independent voters showed no enthusiasm for Trump and Biden. Only 17 percent said they would vote for Trump, and 11 percent said they would vote for Biden. 41% of the respondents in this category also said that they will not vote at all in the elections.
This survey was conducted between January 3-9 with a positive or negative margin of error of 1.5 percent.