The new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll has Biden with a stunning 14% point lead….
A Reuters poll has Biden with a 10% point lead…..
It IS safe to say the first (and maybe only) Biden/Trump debate was a disaster for Donald Trump….
NBC/WSJ Poll….
Joe Biden’s national lead over President Donald Trump nearly doubled after Tuesday’s presidential debate, with voters saying by a 2-to-1 margin that Biden has the better temperament to be president, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
The poll was conducted in the two days after the unruly and insult-filled Sept. 29 debate, but before Trump tested positive for Covid-19 and was hospitalized Friday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
The Democratic nominee is now ahead of Trump by 14 points among registered voters, 53 percent to 39 percent — up from his 8-point lead in the previous poll before the debate.
That 14-point advantage represents Biden’s largest lead in the NBC News/WSJ poll during the entirety of the 2020 presidential campaign; his previous high was 11 points in July….
Reuters Poll…
The Oct. 2-3 national opinion poll gave little indication of an outpouring of support for the president beyond Trump’s core group of followers, some of whom have gathered outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where the president has been hospitalized.
Trump has repeatedly dismissed the severity of the pandemic as something that would disappear on its own, chiding Biden as recently as last week for wearing a protective mask, even as the coronavirus infected millions of people and forced businesses and schools to close.
Among those adults who are expected to cast ballots in the Nov. 3 election, the poll found that 51% were backing Biden, while 41% said they were voting for Trump. Another 4% were choosing a third-party candidate and another 4% said they were undecided.
Biden’s 10-point edge over Trump is 1 to 2 points higher than leads Biden posted over the past several weeks, though the increase is still within the poll’s precision limits of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
With about a month to go before the election, Biden has maintained an early advantage in securing the national popular vote. But to win the presidency, a candidate must prevail in enough states to win the Electoral College, and state polls show that Trump is nearly as popular as Biden in battleground states….
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I see Bidens campaign says they are “open” to continuing with the debates.
While Trumps recovery period from Covid raises all sorts of questions ,And as one who has questioned these so called “debates” for years,
Please someone explain to me what is the purpose of any further of these ridiculous spectacles and make no mistake that’s all they are…
Pure media spectacles.Nothing of substance ever comes out of them .Instead we are treated to mindless blabber about how this candidate “looked” or this candidate “sounded”Was this candidate “forceful” enough?Blah blah.
Everyone here seems to enjoy them,despite the fact that they have nothing to do with how one would perform in the office of President.
I harken back to my childhood .Dwight Eisenhower was President.He was often inarticulate,fumbled around ,and was given to sometimes indecipherable words.
In one of these media spectacles he would have been laughed at.He is today considered one of our best Presidents
I for one do NOT see any reason for additional Biden/Trump debates…
The polling results have been disastrous for Trump…
He’s sick…
A recovery WILl take weeks if not months…
WTF would you even let the guy risk showing up and passing out during a hot 90 minute debate that will do Trump NFG?
I think Wednesdays VP debate will be the last debate this cycle.
There’s simply no denying that the first debate was a disaster for Trump.
I think Trump still thinks he won though and probably wants to debate again.
More…
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds Joe Biden leads Donald Trump nationally by 8 percentage points, 48% to 40%. The previous poll had Biden ahead by 5 points.
Among registered voters who watched the first presidential debate, 46% said Biden won; only 28% said the same of Trump.
The president’s hectoring performance — 59% of debate watchers rated it as “poor,” compared to only 32% for Biden — was followed by a collapse in his support among likely independent voters…
Politicalwire…