Washington, 4th October: A report says that the US President Donald Trump is lagging behind in the polls from his rival Joe Biden.
According to reports from Reuters, Joe Biden, the Presidential candidate to Donald Trump is leading the elections by 10 points after Trump fell victim to the coronavirus pandemic.
According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday, a majority of Americans think Trump could have avoided infection if he had taken the virus more seriously.
Trump has repeatedly dismissed the severity of the pandemic as something that would disappear on its own, even as the coronavirus infected millions of people and forced businesses and schools to close.
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Among the adults who are expected to cast ballots in the elections on the 3rd of Nov, 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 a month to go for the election, Biden has 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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Only 34% said they thought that Trump has been telling them the truth about the coronavirus, while 55% said that he was not and 11% were unsure.
Americans also appear to be largely supportive of curtailing the 2020 presidential race to ensure everyone’s safety.
67% per cent of Americans want to stop in-person campaign rallies and 59% think the presidential debates should be postponed until Trump recovers from the coronavirus.
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It is unclear at this point how Trump’s diagnosis will impact the next presidential debate, which is scheduled for Oct. 15. The first vice presidential debate between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Mike Pence is scheduled for Thursday.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online, in English, throughout the United States. It gathered responses from 1,005 U.S. adults, including 596 likely voters.
Trump, 74, was transferred to Walter Reed on Friday, hours after tweeting that he was diagnosed with COVID-19.
Several other Republican leaders who had been in close proximity with the president announced that they, too, had tested positive.
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