Biden Gains Ground On Trump In Battleground States Despite Disastrous Debate Performance, Polls Show

US President Joe Biden managed to gain ground on his predecessor Donald Trump in key battleground states and is currently trailing by only 2%, a new tracking poll conducted by Bloomberg News/Morning Consult showed.

The gaining of the ground comes despite Biden’s poor outing at the first presidential debate last week. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, leads Democrat Biden 47% to 45% in some of the key states that both of them need to win in order to win the November election, the poll showed.

A separate report by New York Post said that it is the smallest gap since the poll began in October. Biden is losing in Pennsylvania, the state he grew up in, but leads Donald Trump in Michigan and Wisconsin.

He is also trailing in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina but is within the poll’s statistical margin of error. Some registered voters and Democrats who participated in the polls said Biden should withdraw from the White House race. The poll results showed that nearly three in 10 Democrats believe Biden should drop out of the race.

9% of Republicans also said that Trump should do the same.

The findings of the Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll contrast with some national polls that showed a decline for Biden after the June 27 debate, where he gave incoherent answers and seemed to stumble over his words.

According to the poll, swing-state voters thought Biden performed poorly, with fewer than one in five considering the 81-year-old as the more coherent, mentally fit, or dominant participant.

The poll, conducted four days after the Trump-Biden showdown, allowed voters more time to evaluate Biden’s shaky performance, unlike some earlier national polls.

US President Joe Biden is heading back out on the campaign trail Sunday, desperate to salvage his re-election bid as senior Democrats meet to discuss growing calls that he quit the White House race.

The 81-year-old Democrat kicks off a gruelling week with two campaign rallies in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, where he trails in polls, before hosting the NATO leaders’ summit in Washington.

He will do so under an increasingly unforgiving spotlight, as pressure mounts for him to drop out after his disastrous debate against Donald Trump last month ignited panic over his age and fitness to serve another four years.