Former President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden in six out of seven key swing states as Americans believe the economy is going in the wrong direction, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-24/biden-trails-trump-in-6-of-7-key-states-poll-shows-election-2024?leadSource=uverify%20wall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a new Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll.
The <a href="https://pro-assets.morningconsult.com/wp-uploads/2024/04/Bloomberg_2024-Election-Tracking-Wave-7.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> of nearly 5,000 registered voters found that Trump leads Biden in key states like Arizona (49-42), Georgia (49-43), Nevada (51-43), North Carolina (51-41), Pennsylvania (47-46), and Wisconsin (48-44), while Biden tops Trump in Michigan (47-45). The majority of those polled had a negative view of the economy&#8217;s direction, with many believing it would only get worse.
According to the poll, 70% of those surveyed believed the economy was going in the wrong direction, while 30% said it was going the right way. When asked how important the economy would be in determining who they pick for president, 82% said it would be &#8220;very important,&#8221; while 14% said it would be &#8220;somewhat important.&#8221; 
Americans also believe that inflation is worsening, with 54% saying they expected it to intensify by the end of the year and 17% saying they believed it would improve. Inflation has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidenflation-number-of-americans-growing-food-at-home-soars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remained high</a> during the Biden presidency, with customers paying elevated prices for staples like food and gas. A political action committee backing Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-pac-launches-interactive-website-to-show-how-food-prices-have-skyrocketed-under-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> a &#8220;Biden-mart&#8221; website last month highlighting the dramatic increase in food prices. 
“Some of the shine of the State of the Union address has worn off,” Matt Monday, senior manager of Morning Consult, said. “People are really tying &#8216;Bidenomics&#8217; and their perception of the economy to the inflation rate.”
More than half of voters surveyed (51%) said they trusted Trump more with the economy than Biden (36%), while 13% said neither. 46% of voters also said they trusted Trump more on the issue of good jobs than Biden (38%). 
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By far, the economy ranked as the number one issue for voters polled, with 34% saying it would be their top issue in the presidential election. The only other top issue that polled in the double digits was immigration at 15%, while abortion, a top issue for the Biden campaign, came in at 9%.
Neither Biden nor Trump had a majority of voters who viewed them favorably. While 56% said they had an unfavorable or somewhat unfavorable view of Biden, just 41% said they had a favorable or somewhat favorable view of the president. Trump was viewed unfavorably or somewhat unfavorably by 41% of voters, while 45% had a favorable or very favorable view of him. 
Other issues voters found important included immigration (86%), crime (91%), education and schools (87%), and senior services (89%).

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Massachusetts residents say that immigration is the top issue facing the state, a recent poll has found.
The poll, performed by the MassINC Polling Group, <a href="https://commonwealthbeacon.org/by-the-numbers/mass-residents-say-immigration-migrants-top-issue-facing-state/#:~:text=In%20a%20new%20CommonWealth%20Beacon,and%20welfare%20(12%20percent).">asked 1,002 Massachusetts residents</a> what they believe is the most important issue facing the state, leaving the question open-ended.
A plurality of Massachusetts residents, 21%, said that immigration and migrants are the biggest issues facing the Bay State, with housing coming in second at 15%. Taxes, government spending, and welfare came in as the third biggest issue facing the state at 12%. Inflation and the cost of living, meanwhile, tied government spending in third place at 12%.
The vast majority of respondents, 67%, said that the situation was either a crisis (28%) or a major problem (39%), with Democrats showing significant concern over the issue. Among Democrats, 21% called the issue a crisis and 40% called it a major problem. The poll was conducted online between March 21st and 29th, surveyed 1,002 Massachusetts residents, and has a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.
Immigration broke the top 10 most pressing issues among poll respondents in Massachusetts for the first time in August 2023 when it moved into fourth place with 10% of respondents dubbing it the Bay State’s biggest issue.
Massachusetts is not the only blue state that has become concerned about the effects of Biden’s open border. Another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-colorado-voters-say-immigration-is-the-top-issue-as-2024-election-draws-closer">recent poll</a> found that likely voters in Colorado say that immigration is the top issue facing their state as well. The poll found that 14% of likely Colorado voters said immigration is the top issue facing the state, with homelessness coming in second at 12%.
The Massachusetts and Colorado polls correspond with a wider national trend, with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/voters-say-immigration-is-top-issue-facing-country-biden-faces-widespread-disapproval-on-immigration">36% of voters</a> across the country saying that immigration is the top issue facing the country, while inflation came in second place. A recent Harvard-Harris poll also found that Biden’s lowest issue-specific approval rating is on immigration, a trend that has persisted for four consecutive months.
The poll results come as the United States faces an unprecedented crisis on our southern border, with officials recording about 9 million <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters">nationwide encounters</a> and 1.7 million <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-may-have-lost-track-millions-of-migrants-crossing-southern-border-congressional-report">estimated gotaways</a> since President Joe Biden took office. The figure poses a sharp contrast with the 415,000 total reported gotaways for 2018, 2019, and 2020 under the Trump administration.

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President Joe Biden is losing the support of black men at an alarming rate, according to a Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/biden-trump-black-men-support-election-2024-poll-a7d9da22?mod=hp_lead_pos11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> of seven swing states.
The 2024 election <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-trailing-trump-in-six-of-seven-battleground-states-new-poll-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> released last week surveyed voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, all states widely viewed as “<a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/elections/president/2024/battleground-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">toss-ups</a>” heading into November. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that one major finding in the poll showed that Biden’s support among black men in the swing states is 30 points lower than the 2020 election&#8217;s national results.
In the poll, 57% of black men supported Biden, while 30% said they backed former President Trump. This is a drastic shift from 2020 when 87% of black men voted for Biden, and only 12% voted for Trump, according to the VoteCast national poll.
The WSJ poll found that Biden’s support among black women remained high, but it was significantly lower than just four years ago. In 2020, 93% of black women across the country voted for Biden, but in the poll, Biden’s support among the demographic in the battleground states sits at 77%, while Trump’s numbers among black women were higher, from the 6% he received nationally in 2020 to 11% in the swing states poll.
Adrianne Shropshire, head of Democratic political action committee BlackPAC, told the Wall Street Journal that the apparent shift in black support away from Biden means that Democrats must revamp their 2020 strategy of reaching out to black voters.
“In this particular election, the persuasion isn’t just to vote or not to vote,” said Shropshire. “The persuasion is actually to get people to come to Biden and away from third parties and away from Trump.”
The WSJ poll also found that while black women are less likely than black men to ditch their support of Biden in favor of Trump, they are more likely to explore third-party options or stay home altogether.
Commenting on the WSJ poll results, a spokesman for the Trump campaign told WSJ, “Our coalition message to black and Hispanic communities this election is simple: If you want strong borders, safe neighborhoods, rising wages, quality jobs, school choice and the return of the strongest economy in over 60 years, then vote for Donald J. Trump.”
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Michael Bocian, a Democratic pollster who conducted the WSJ poll, said that in many election cycles, black voters at first appear cold to the Democratic nominee before coming around and voting blue in November.
“That said, Biden is further off than where we have seen Democrats in the past,” Bocian remarked.
Biden was blasted during the 2020 campaign when he said that black voters “ain’t black&#8221; if they were considering backing Trump. The Democratic candidate later <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/us/politics/joe-biden-black-breakfast-club.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apologized</a> for his comment, saying, “I shouldn’t have been such a wise guy.”

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Just over half of voters surveyed in a new poll say that President Joe Biden received special treatment during special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into his handling of classified documents.
A survey conducted by <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/half-americans-think-biden-got-special-treatment-document-probe-reutersipsos-2024-02-13/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters/Ipsos</a> found that 53% of the Americans polled agree that &#8220;Biden received special treatment because he is the U.S. president.&#8221; That majority included 29% of Democrats who agreed with the statement. The four-day-long poll closed on Monday and was released on Tuesday morning.
Last Thursday, Hur released his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/special-counsel-biden-willfully-retained-disclosed-classified-materials-but-no-criminal-charges-warranted">report</a> on Biden’s handling of classified documents, concluding that there is “evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” but said “no criminal charges are warranted in this matter.” The special counsel also argued that it would be unlikely a jury would convict the 81-year-old Biden of a “serious felony” because of his “mental state,” describing the president &#8220;as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.&#8221;
Of those polled by Reuters/Ipsos, nearly half — 46% — said they were at least somewhat familiar with Hur’s less-than-flattering description of Biden. The poll also revealed troubling findings for Biden’s re-election campaign as Reuters reported that 78% of those surveyed, including 71% of Democrats, believe the president is too old to remain in government. Only 53% of respondents said that 77-year-old Donald Trump is too old to be elected to office.
Trump, who is in the midst of his own classified documents case, said last week that the special counsel’s decision to clear Biden shows “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/selective-persecution-trump-says-he-should-not-be-charged-after-biden-cleared-by-special-counsel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">selective persecution</a>.”
“If Biden is not going to be charged … that’s up to them, but then I should not be charged,” the former president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/selective-persecution-trump-says-he-should-not-be-charged-after-biden-cleared-by-special-counsel">said</a>. “This is nothing more than selective persecution of Biden’s political opponent, me.”
Trump was hit with 40 charges over his handling of classified documents after he left office, which include charges of obstructing government officials from retrieving the documents. The FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022 to confiscate the classified documents, but Trump has maintained his innocence, saying that he is protected by the Presidential Records Act.
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Biden addressed the special counsel’s report in a press conference on Thursday evening when he said that the investigation’s conclusion means the classified documents scandal is behind him. During the press conference, the president also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-explodes-during-press-conference-on-his-mental-fitness-makes-several-mental-mistakes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">snapped</a> at reporters who asked him to address the report’s revelations about his memory. Biden responded, saying he is “the most qualified person in the United States to be president.”
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The majority of voters support state laws banning sex change surgeries on children and trust parents more than teachers on issues of gender and sexuality, according to a poll exclusively shared with The Daily Wire. 
The <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/January-4-Survey-Analysis-Minors-and-Gender-Issues.pptx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a>, conducted by CRC Research for the 85 Fund, found that 67% of voters supported laws that prohibit minors from being put on cross-sex hormones and undergoing sex change surgeries. The poll surveyed 1,600 registered voters across the country from January 3 to 7 and was composed of 30% Republicans, 34% independents, and 35% Democrats. 
Every demographic surveyed from Republican (73%) to independent (71%) to Democrat (61%) expressed some support for state laws shielding children from transgender procedures. Over 20 states have passed laws protecting kids from transgender procedures, with courts upholding some of the laws and blocking others. 
The survey also found that voters overwhelmingly opposed the creation of independent health centers in schools that promote cross-sex hormone therapy and other transgender procedures. 
&#8220;This poll confirms that gender ideology is a unifying issue across party lines and a vast majority of Americans support parental rights and restricting irreversible medical transition interventions for minors. Americans also oppose our government pushing community school health clinics that will further threaten parental rights,” January Littlejohn, a parental advocate with Do No Harm, a group that seeks to end the politicization of medicine, told The Daily Wire in response to the poll’s findings. 
Eighty-one percent of those surveyed expressed support for parents to be informed about discussions of gender dysphoria and related topics, while 10% disagreed with the sentiment. 
Another question asked about a case in Michigan where school officials are alleged to have treated an 11-year-old girl as a boy without parental knowledge or consent. Sixty-four percent of those surveyed said the parents were right to sue the district over the incident, while 24% said schools may have to keep some student information private. 
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A majority of Republicans (88%), independents (76%), and Democrats (71%) said that they trusted parents more than teachers and school officials to discuss issues of gender identity and sexuality. 
&#8220;These figures decisively show that voter support for family involvement in children&#8217;s lives transcends political ideology. These numbers are consistent with previous polls conducted by PDE, the Becket Fund, and others — which is why it&#8217;s absolutely mind-boggling that education officials seem to consider it their sacred duty to spend finite taxpayer resources encouraging students to keep secrets from their loved ones, undermining the parent-child relationship in the process,” Parents Defending Education President Nicole Neily said. 
The poll also contained bad news for President Joe Biden, with just 41% approving of his performance and 56% disapproving. Nearly two-thirds of those polled also said the country was moving in the wrong direction, while 32% said it was going in the right direction.

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President Joe Biden is bleeding Hispanic support in New Mexico, a state he won by 10 points in 2020 with the help of the key demographic group, according to a new poll shared with The Daily Wire.
New <a href="https://powerthefuture.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/FINAL-PTF-New-Mexico-Statewide-Survey.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polling data</a> from Power the Future and Public Opinion Strategies shows that the president’s disapproval rating among Hispanics in New Mexico has skyrocketed since taking office. Of the Hispanics polled in the Power the Future survey, 63% disapprove of the job Biden has done — with 51% strongly disapproving — while 36% approve of his performance. 
Biden’s disapproval rating among Hispanics in the state is a complete flip from the 2020 election results, which saw Biden take 61% of the Hispanic vote compared to just 38% for Trump. The president’s overall approval rating in New Mexico isn’t much better, as 41% of voters approve of Biden compared to 57% who disapprove, which is nearly identical to the national average, according to the poll. 
“Politically, New Mexico may be a small state, but these results spell big trouble for Joe Biden,” Power the Future Communications Director Larry Behrens told The Daily Wire. “The biggest issues on the minds of voters are the economy and crime, so it’s clear Joe Biden’s failures are the driving force behind why his numbers are taking a dive.” 
The poll, which surveyed 500 registered likely votes in the state between January 5-8, showed that the top issues for New Mexicans are the economy (24%), crime (23%), and education (15%). Immigration (12%) came in behind the environment (13%). 
Nearly half of Hispanic voters polled rated the state’s economy as “poor,” while another 33% said the economy was “only fair.” Meanwhile, 73% of all registered voters polled by Power the Future said the economy was either “poor” or “only fair.” 
“Families in New Mexico are just like families across the rest of the country, they are paying higher prices for everything so it’s no surprise they’ve decided Joe Biden needs to pay a political price too,” said Behrens. 
In the last presidential election, Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/state/new-mexico/president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beat</a> Trump in New Mexico by nearly 100,000 votes, easily taking the state’s two largest cities, Albuquerque and Las Cruces. While Trump <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-bidens-2020-victory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made gains</a> with Hispanics in 2020 compared to 2016, Biden pulled enough Hispanic support to help propel him to victory, but current trends suggest Biden is losing both Hispanic and black support heading into the 2024 election. 
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According to a USA Today/Suffolk <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/01/01/biden-trump-poll-odds-black-hispanic-young-voters/72072111007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> released earlier this month, Biden is trailing Trump 39% to 34% among Hispanic voters nationally, and only 63% of black voters back Biden compared to 87% of the black vote he received in the 2020 election.

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Around 20% of young Americans view Osama Bin Laden — the mastermind behind the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history — in a positive light, according to a new <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12890583/americans-osama-bin-laden-poll-gen-zers.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Mail</a> poll. 
The <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12890583/americans-osama-bin-laden-poll-gen-zers.html">poll</a>, which surveyed voters between 18 and 29 years old, also found that around 30% of the young Americans believe the views that guided Bin Laden were a “force for good,” The Daily Mail reported. Bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy Seals in May of 2011 after a decade-long manhunt for the radical Islamic terrorist. The al-Qaeda leader orchestrated the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., which killed nearly 3,000 Americans. 
Of the 18-29-year-olds surveyed in the poll, 8% said they had a “completely positive” view of Bin Laden while another 12% said they had a “somewhat positive” view of the infamous terrorist. Among those who viewed Bin Laden positively, 8% said both his “views and actions” were good, and 23% said his views were good but his actions were bad, according to the Mail. Eighty-one percent of those polled overall held a negative view of Bin Laden.
The Daily Mail poll results come a month after viral TikTok videos showed young Americans discussing Bin Laden’s “Letter to America” and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-who-killed-bin-laden-responds-to-viral-tiktok-trend-praising-the-terrorists-letter-to-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sympathizing</a> with the al-Qaeda leader after reading it. The letter outlines Bin Laden’s justification for the 9/11 terrorist attack on U.S. soil. 
Terry Strada, whose husband died in the North Tower on 9/11, told the Mail that the poll results are a “horrifying” and “disturbing” sign that terrorism is being “normalized” in the U.S. 
“What is wrong with our youth? How do they not realize the horrors of terrorism?” Strada asked. “This is a dangerous and slippery slope to go down.” 
Another American who lost a loved one on 9/11 blamed the U.S. government’s lack of transparency about Saudi involvement in the terror attack for the rise in young Americans’ sympathies for Bin Laden. 
“We have never been told the full story or truth about what happened to us on 9/11,” said Brett Eagleson, whose father perished in the South Tower. “So it’s no wonder why today’s youth and adolescents have taken such extremist views supporting the evil that visited us that day. We have a two-decades-long government cover up to blame for this.” 
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“The time is past for a full accounting of the Saudi Government[‘s] role in 9/11 as well the intelligence failures of the US government,” Eagleson added. 
In October, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/majority-of-muslim-americans-believe-hamas-was-justified-in-its-terror-attacks-against-israel">survey</a> conducted by Cygnal showed that a majority (57.5%) of Muslim Americans believed Hamas was “justified” in its terrorist attack against Israel. While most Muslim Americans defended Hamas’ actions on October 7, 75% of all Americans condemned Hamas for attacking Israel and murdering around 1,200 people.

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A new poll of adult Americans found that 20% of 18-29 year-olds believe that the Holocaust in World War II— in which six million Jews were murdered, including one million children —  is a myth while 77% of adults older than 29 disagreed with calling the Holocaust a “myth.”
A YouGov/The Economist survey of 1,500 American adults found that among the 18-29 age group, only 46% said it was anti-Semitic to deny the Holocaust occurred as opposed to 67% among the rest of the population surveyed.
The survey asked if respondents agreed with statements such as “Jews have too much power in America,” “People should boycott Israeli goods and products,” “Israel exploits Holocaust victimhood for its own purposes,” “Israel has too much control over global affairs,” and “the interests of Israelis are at odds with the interests of the rest of the world.” The 18-29 age “bracket answered in the affirmative more so than any other group,” The Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/international/article-777480">reported</a>.
The 18-29 age group also displayed a higher percentage of those who believe Israel is an apartheid state and is deliberately trying to erase the Palestinian population. “This 18-29 year-old age group also had the largest proportion of respondents who disagreed with the statement that Israel has a right to exist,” the Post noted.
The anti-Israel sentiment that has gained strength in American academia for decades likely played a part in young people’s denial of the Holocaust and anti-Israel sentiment. As far back as 2002, anti-Semitism on college campuses was growing. Then-Harvard President Lawrence Summers spoke to students at a morning prayer service at the Memorial Church, saying, “ &#8230; there is disturbing evidence of an upturn in anti-Semitism globally &#8230; where anti-Semitism and views that are profoundly anti-Israeli have traditionally been the primary preserve of poorly educated right-wing populists, profoundly anti-Israel views are increasingly finding support in progressive intellectual communities.”
In January 2022, Ellen Germain, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues for the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, spoke of Holocaust denial at the Hague. She <a href="https://www.state.gov/why-confronting-holocaust-distortion-and-denial-matters/">stated</a>:
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It seems incredible that more than 75 years after the end of World War II and the Holocaust, people still deny and distort the facts of the genocide, one of the best-documented mass atrocities in human history.  We have mountains of evidence, extensive survivor testimonies, and eyewitness accounts from those who liberated the concentration and death camps.  Yet Holocaust denial and distortion persist.  Indeed, one could say they have gone viral.  Modern day Holocaust distortion and denial have been exacerbated, and amplified, through the use of digital tools and the ease with which misinformation and disinformation can be spread on social media platforms.  This is shocking.  The Holocaust is fact; the evidence is overwhelming.
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She continued:
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We must do all we can, every day, to counter Holocaust denial and distortion, and other modern manifestations of antisemitism and other forms of hate.  We must stand up for the truth and promote the accurate and truthful history of the horrors of the Holocaust.  We must highlight the painful lessons of the Holocaust, including the importance of respecting the human rights and dignity of people who are different from us.  That is the only way we will ever fulfill our solemn pledge of “never again.”
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In the crucial early states of Iowa and New Hampshire, a new survey found that while former President Trump holds a solid lead in both states among Republican voters, a vast majority of those voters are not committed to supporting him.
In Iowa, where the presidential caucuses start the primary process, a new CBS News/YouGov <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-2024-poll-gop-primary-iowa-new-hampshire/">survey</a> conducted between September 15-24 found only 20% of voters saying that they were committed to voting for Trump, while 48% are considering both Trump and other candidates, and 31% declared they will not vote for Trump.
Though a majority of respondents said they were potentially open to a candidate other than Trump, the poll also found that the former president currently holds a solid lead in the state (51%). The poll found that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (21%) is running second, while former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley (8%) is running third.
In New Hampshire, 23% of voters said that they are committed to Trump, while 43% are considering both Trump and other candidates, and 31% declared they will not vote for Trump. As in Iowa, Trump leads the race (50%), while DeSantis (13%) is running second, and Haley (11%) is running third.
The poll also found 62% of Republicans in Iowa and 53% of GOP voters in New Hampshire said the GOP presidential debates were a “major factor” in their decision as to which candidate to back.
“Voters considering choices other than Trump say they are doing so to keep their options open,” CBS News reported. “They also show concern about Trump&#8217;s controversies and legal fights, and think the party should consider someone new.”
Polls show Trump with a commanding lead over his rivals, but history shows that 13 months before the presidential election may well be too early to draw a definitive conclusion of who the ultimate candidate will be.  At the end of September 2007, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_2008_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries">leaders in the GOP polling</a> were Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney; John McCain ultimately won the nomination.
At the end of September 2011, Mitt Romney (the ultimate nominee) was leading, but one week later the leader was Herman Cain; they battled for the lead for a week before Newt Gingrich sprang into the lead, which he kept until late December 2011. By February 2012 Rick Santorum gained the lead; it wasn’t until late February 2012 that Romney was in the lead to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_2012_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries">stay.</a>

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican Party</a> has the largest edge ever over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democrats</a> with voters on the economy, according to a new poll.
An NBC News <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23990905-230239-nbc-september-2023-poll_for-release-92623" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> released Tuesday shows the GOP with a 21-point lead over the Democratic Party when it comes to who Americans trust more to handle the financial system. The difference is the largest in the poll’s history, which dates back more than three decades to 1991.
The poll, which consisted of responses from 1,000 registered voters taken from September 15-19, found that 49% of Americans favor Republican economic policy as opposed to 28% who favor Democrats’. The margin of error is 3.1%.
It also showed Republicans with leads beyond the margin of error on the issues of border security (50% for Republicans-20% for Democrats), crime (46%-20%), immigration (45%-27%), and protecting constitutional rights (43%-35%). Democrats held sizable leads on the issues of education (30%-40%), coronavirus (26%-37%), abortion (28%-46%), and healthcare (22%-45%).
Two pollsters conducted the poll: Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies and Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research.
“On this survey after 20 or 30 years, Republicans dealing with the economy [versus Democrats], immigration and crime are all at their all-time highs,” McInturff said, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/first-read/poll-republicans-advantages-immigration-crime-economy-rcna117054" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>.
“The other thing that is maybe not expected is these phrases: ‘protecting our constitutional rights’ and ‘protecting democracy.’ These are things where overall the electorate thinks Republicans are more focused and would do a better job than Democrats,” he added.
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The economic numbers suggest that Americans are not buying the Biden administration&#8217;s optimistic message on the economy. The White House has made a concerted effort to sell Americans on the president’s economic agenda, even adopting the shorthand tag “Bidenomics” to refer to the president’s economic policies.
The effort so far appears to have flopped. A Washington Post-ABC News poll published on Sunday shows Americans are overall pessimistic about the state of the U.S. economy. Nearly three-quarters of Americans <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/24/biden-trump-poll-2024-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">believe</a> the economy is either “not so good” or “poor” compared to just a quarter who rate the economy as “excellent” or “good.”
Inflation <a href="https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-inflation-rates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remains</a> above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, and Fed chairman Jerome Powell stated last month that the Federal Reserve board may not be done hiking interest rates.
“We have tightened policy significantly over the past year. Although inflation has moved down from its peak — a welcome development — it remains too high,” Powell <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-still-too-high-to-consider-cutting-interest-rates-fed-chair-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “We are prepared to raise rates further if appropriate, and intend to hold policy at a restrictive level until we are confident that inflation is moving sustainably down toward our objective.”

Americans Favor GOP To Democrats On Economy By Widest Margin Ever In Poll

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A new poll could signal trouble for President Joe Biden as former President Donald Trump holds a big lead in a hypothetical head-to-head. 
The Washington Post-ABC News <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/24/biden-trump-poll-2024-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> has Trump, the GOP frontrunner, with a ten percentage point lead over Biden among registered voters, at 52% to 42%, well beyond the 3.5 percentage point <a href="https://www.langerresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/1230a3PresidentialPolitics.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">margin of error</a>. Biden’s approval rating on top issues for voters, including the economy and immigration, shows the president faces an uphill battle in 2024 over topics far beyond his age. 
“The latest ABC/Washington Post Poll has Trump beating Biden by 10% and they are desperately scrambling trying to call it an ‘outlier,’” chair of the House Republican Conference, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), posted on X. “It’s not an outlier. The elitist Left and their stenographers in the mainstream media should talk to more voters across America. President Trump has historic support in Upstate New York and all across the country!”
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Good morning! 
The latest ABC/Washington Post Poll has Trump beating Biden by 10% and they are desperately scrambling trying to call it an “outlier.”
It’s not an outlier. The elitist Left and their stenographers in the mainstream media should talk to more voters across America.… <a href="https://t.co/sH13O3M82C">pic.twitter.com/sH13O3M82C</a>
&mdash; Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) <a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1705926695415349372?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Post described the results as an “outlier.” According to the RealClearPolitics <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/general-election-trump-vs-biden-7383.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">average</a> of polls, Trump holds a 1.1 percentage point lead over Biden. Of the twelve most recent polls included in the average, Trump beats Biden in five, while Biden beats Trump in three, and four are ties. 
According to the new WaPo/ABC News poll, the majority of voters, 74%, believe Biden is too old for a second term, up six percentage points <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/troubles-biden-age-reelection-campaign-poll/story?id=103436611" target="_blank" rel="noopener">from</a> May. Biden&#8217;s approval rating for the economy, which is consistently at the top of voters’ priorities, sits at 30%, despite his administration touting “Bidenomics.&#8221; His approval on the border issue is a dismal 23%, and the president&#8217;s overall approval rating is 37%, with 56% disapproval. Trump, who left office with a 38% approval rating, now has a retrospective 48% approval for his performance in the White House, according to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/troubles-biden-age-reelection-campaign-poll/story?id=103436611" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC</a>. 
The former president also has a commanding lead among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, with 54% supporting his bid for the GOP nomination. His next closest challenger, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, is at 15%, followed by the remainder of the candidates in single digits, the survey found. In May, DeSantis was at 25%, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/24/biden-trump-poll-2024-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Post</a>. 
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Most Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents, 62%, believe the party should nominate someone besides Biden, while just a third support another term for the president. Despite this, Biden is <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/24_democratic_presidential_nomination-8171.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polling well ahead</a> of the two other Democratic candidates, Robert F. Kennedy and self-help author Marianne Williamson. 
As for who the alternative could be, 8% said Vice President Kamala Harris, 8% said Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders, 7% said Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, and 20% said “someone else.” 
“Left-wing ABC News/WashPost poll has Trump up 10 points (!) over Biden. By comparison, ABC/WP poll from September 2019 had Biden up 15 points,” Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief at The Federalist, <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1705825403124723945" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> to X. “The poll tends to dramatically overstate Democrat support &#8230; its final 2020 poll had Biden up 12, for example.”
Trump touted his poll numbers in his decision to skip the first Republican debate in August, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-sit-for-interview-with-tucker-carlson-skip-first-gop-debate-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, “People know my Record, one of the BEST EVER, so why would I Debate?” The decision appears to have not affected his national poll numbers. Trump will also skip the second GOP debate on Wednesday to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-skip-next-republican-debate-give-speech-auto-issues-aide-2023-09-18/#:~:text=Sept%2018%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20Former,workers%20and%20America's%20leading%20automakers." target="_blank" rel="noopener">give a speech</a> to striking auto workers in Detroit.

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New WaPo/ABC News Poll Shows Trump With Commanding Lead Over Biden

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As deep blue New York scrambles to metabolize the tens of thousands of illegal migrants who have flooded the state since last year, many residents say they want a southern border wall.
More than four in ten New York state residents — 41% — said they support a border wall spanning the entire length of the country&#8217;s southern border with Mexico, <a href="https://scri.siena.edu/2023/09/12/majorities-support-using-federal-properties-to-shelter-migrants-easier-work-authorizations-comprehensive-immigration-reform-oppose-border-wall-50-41/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a Siena College Poll released Tuesday.
Even in New York City, 38% of city dwellers said they support a border wall.
Half of New Yorkers said they would oppose a border wall spanning the length of the southern border, the poll found.
The border wall was a key project of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration, but President Biden later <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-termination-of-emergency-with-respect-to-southern-border-of-united-states-and-redirection-of-funds-diverted-to-border-wall-construction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scrapped</a> efforts to complete the wall on his first day in office.
The illegal drug market and the economic consequences of welcoming so many illegal migrants were also issues addressed by the poll.
About 38% of New Yorkers said they believe the current migrants coming into the country are the source of much of the illegal drugs entering our country, the poll found.
Even more, 42%, said the migrants take more in resources than they return in economic activity or taxes.
About 31% said that many people trying to immigrate to the U.S. are &#8220;dangerous potentially criminal people,&#8221; according to the poll.
Meanwhile, about 35% said they believe many people trying to immigrate to the U.S. &#8220;just want free hand-outs from our government and people &#8230; and do not want to work.&#8221;
More than 110,000 migrants have arrived in New York City since last year, and 60,000 are still being housed on the city’s dime, causing officials to open additional homeless shelters.
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<div class="ad-wrapper">“This issue will destroy New York City,” Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/11/esuh-s11.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at a town hall meeting on Wednesday. “We’re getting 10,000 migrants a month … Every community in this city is going to be impacted.”</div>
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Over the weekend, Adams announced budget cuts to the tune of billions of dollars due to the migrant crisis. All city agencies will be forced to reduce spending by 5% <a href="https://gothamist.com/news/mayor-adams-orders-billions-in-budget-cuts-escalating-call-for-federal-and-state-migrant-aid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">starting</a> in November and 15% by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/09/nyc-eric-adams-migrant-crisis-00114879" target="_blank" rel="noopener">next spring</a>.
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The city has already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-city-migrant-crisis-approaches-breaking-point-with-disorderly-migrants-shelter-space" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spent</a> more than $1.2 billion on the migrants and is projected to spend up to $5 billion.
Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has since given New York City $140 million in federal funding to address the migrant crisis, but Adams has said it would take more aid to get the situation under control.
Migrants are also causing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-city-migrant-crisis-approaches-breaking-point-with-disorderly-migrants-shelter-space">other headaches</a> for New York besides overcrowding the emergency shelter system — some have caused public disturbances. Meanwhile, business owners in Manhattan say their businesses suffer significantly due to the chaos spilling onto the streets from hotels used as migrant shelters. Migrants have been spotted drinking and using drugs inside the hotels as well.
The Siena College Poll surveyed 800 New York state residents last week. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.

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41% Of New Yorkers Want Southern Border Wall As State Grapples With Migrants, Poll Finds

41% Of New Yorkers Want Southern Border Wall As State Grapples With Migrants: Poll

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