Biden holds 3-point edge over Trump in White House race: poll [View all]
A new national poll points to an extremely close contest between President Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden as the race for the White House shifts to a likely general election battle between the two.
Biden, the former vice president and all-but-certain 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, stands at 48 percent support among registered voters nationwide in a Monmouth University poll, with the GOP incumbent at 45 percent. Bidens slight 3-point edge over Trump is within the polls sampling error, meaning the race is roughly tied between the two candidates.
Three percent said they would vote for an independent candidate in Novembers general election, and 4 percent said they were undecided in the survey, which was conducted March 18-22 and released on Tuesday.
According to the poll, the president enjoys a nearly 2-to-1 margin over Biden in the 2,500 solidly red counties that Trump overwhelming won four years ago over 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. In the 360 solidly blue counties where Clinton crushed Trump, Biden is up by a 2-to-1 margin. But in the approximately 300 swing counties where the margins in the 2016 presidential election were 10 points or less, Biden tops Trump 50-41 percent.
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