Politico | Post-convention polls show Joe Biden still in command
- A spate of new national and battleground-state polling shows the US race has changed little after the back-to-back party conventions
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Steven Shepard on politico.com on September 2, 2020
US President Donald Trump and Joe Biden have emerged from the national party conventions roughly where they were before: with Biden holding a significant lead, though his advantage is far from secure.
A glut of new national and state polling out since the Republican convention ended last week shows either a small bump for Trump or no bounce at all. The net result: Biden still holds a high-single-digit lead nationally, along with a smaller-but-consistent advantage in the battleground states. Biden’s lead over Trump is large in some swing-state polls, while others show Trump still behind but within striking distance.
The new polls reflect not only the parties’ conventions but the Trump campaign’s efforts to focus the campaign on crime and justice and away from the coronavirus pandemic. But the surveys show that Trump’s “law and order” posture isn’t currently a winning issue for the president – though his poll numbers on that issue are stronger than his poor ratings for handling the government’s response to the virus.
Here are five takeaways from the latest polls:
Trump still trails nationally