{"id":16154,"date":"2020-08-12T12:03:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T07:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16154"},"modified":"2020-08-12T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T07:03:39","slug":"biden-holds-10-point-national-lead-against-trump-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16154","title":{"rendered":"Biden holds 10-point national lead against Trump, Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden holds a 10-point lead against President Donald Trump in the race for the White House, according to a poll released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The survey by Monmouth University in New Jersey showed Biden is currently supported by 51% of registered voters, while Trump has 41% support.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was released days before Democrats and Republicans are set to announce official presidential nominees. The four-day Democratic National Convention will kick off next week, while the Republican Convention will begin Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p>Slightly more voters say they are certain about their support for Biden, 39%, than say the same about Trump, 35% &#8212; similar to support in late June when it was 40% for Biden to 34% for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>While Democrats are worried about Russian meddling in elections, Republicans think the Democratic Party will be responsible for election interference.<\/p>\n<p>Forty percent of Democratic voters are worried about possible election meddling by Russia while 9% name China and 4% cite some other country. Thirty-one percent of Democrats expect Trump, along with the Republican Party, 16%, to play a role in possible election meddling.<\/p>\n<p>A majority of GOP voters believe the Democratic Party would be the most likely perpetrator of election interference with 55%, including vote-by-mail with 11%\u00a0 an option favored by Democrats amid coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The vote-by-mail is supported by 58% of Americans, the polls found, while 37% say it is a bad idea. Nearly all Democrats, 90%, say expanding vote-by-mail is a good idea but few Republicans, 20%, agree.<\/p>\n<p>Voter opinions of Biden stands at 42% favorable and 47% unfavorable. It was 44% and 44%, respectively, in late June. Trump was 40% favorable and 54% unfavorable. Those figures were 38% and 55%, respectively, in late June. The combined rating showed 39% have a favorable opinion of Biden only, 37% have a favorable opinion of Trump only.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was conducted by telephone from Aug. 6 &#8211; 10, with 868 adults and based on 785 registered voters and has a +\/- 3.5 margin of error.<\/p>\n<p>Some recent general elections polls conducted in August also shows Biden&#8217;s lead over Trump.<\/p>\n<p>A GU Politics\/Battleground poll has Biden at 53% and Trump 40%; The Hill\/HarrisX survey found Biden with 43% and Trump at 40%; Economist\/YouGov poll showed Biden at 49% and Trump at 40% and an Emerson survey found Biden with 50% and Trump 46%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA US presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden holds a 10-point lead against President Donald Trump in the race for the White House, according to a poll released Tuesday. The survey by Monmouth University in New Jersey showed Biden is currently supported by 51% of registered voters, while Trump has 41% support. The poll was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16155,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154\/revisions\/16155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}