Biden trails Trump in most battleground states as voters sour on the US economy
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President Biden is losing support in key battleground states amid growing pessimism among voters about the state of the U.S. economy, according to a new poll.
Findings published Wednesday by Bloomberg News/Morning Consult show that Biden trails former President Donald Trump in six of the seven swing states that are likely to determine the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.
Biden leads the presumptive Republican nominee in just one state – Michigan, by 2 percentage points – but is behind in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina.
The results come as poll respondents expressed a bleak view of the economy, an issue that has consistently ranked as a top priority for voters.
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President Joe Biden during an event at the Old Post Office in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. (Taylor Glascock/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
A majority of voters in the seven swing states expect economic conditions to worsen in coming months, with fewer than 20% projecting declines in inflation and borrowing costs by the end of the year. Just 23% of respondents anticipate the employment rate will improve during that same time period.
Those figures were even lower among undecided voters, a crucial voting bloc.
«People are really tying Bidenomics and their perception of the economy to the inflation rate,» said Matt Monday, senior manager of Morning Consult.
More than three quarters of poll respondents said the president is responsible for the current performance of the U.S. economy, and nearly half said he was «very responsible.»
The White House lauded
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