Polls: Ben Before Trump

A poll conducted between September 3rd and September 8th found that 52 per cent of those likely to go to the polling stations would back Biden, while 40 per cent would back the incumbent president.

The survey was conducted online throughout the US, in 823 eligible voters -- 390 identified as Democrats and 351 identified as republican. Three percent of respondents will support the third candidate, and only 5 percent have not yet made a decision, two months before the November 3rd elections, which the two candidates declared the most important “in American history”.

The survey showed that the number of voters who have not yet decided on the candidate of two major parties is twice as low as in the recent elections in 2016.

The American election winner is not decided by the total number of votes at the US level, but by an electoral college based on the number of votes from the state.

The poll, the first conducted by Reuters and Ipso this year among future voters, found that the main motivation to go to the polls was a coronary pandemic that claimed more than 186,000 lives and destroyed millions of jobs in the United States, as well as confidence in power

Some 28 percent of voters said their decision was influenced by the thought of candidate ability to manage pandemic, and 23 percent restored confidence in the government.

19 percent attach importance to the ability to raise the economy on foot, and 14 percent want a candidate who may best face crime.

Some 51 percent of respondents believe that Beden would have a better response to the virus than 38 percent of Trump, but the republic was seen as a more powerful candidate in the case of “civil crime and unrest”, with 45 percent compared to 40 percent of Biden.