Joe Biden 11 POINTS ahead of Donald Trump in major poll after Bernie Sanders quit Democratic Primary race
PRESIDENTIAL candidate Joe Biden is up 11 points on President Donald Trump, a new CNN poll has revealed.
John Harwood, White House correspondent for the network, tweeted the results of the survey early Thursday morning.
“New @CNN poll of registered voters,” he wrote.
“Biden 53% Trump 42%”.
But followers of Harwood cautioned on taking the polls at face value.
The results of the 2016 presidential election came as a surprise to “nearly everyone who had been following the national and state election polling”, Pew Research noted shortly after Trump was elected.
Polls had consistently projected Hillary Clinton ahead of Trump, with election forecasters putting her chance of winning at anywhere from 70% to as high as 99%.
“We know that some groups – including the less educated voters who were a key demographic for Trump on Election Day – are consistently hard for pollsters to reach,” Pew Research added at the time.
In response to Harwood’s tweet, Ron Dufresne, a retired army officer, said: “Lesson from 2016: take any nationwide polls with a grain of salt. Pay attention to the swing state polls… they’re the ones that matter.”
Another tweeter added: “The only polls that matter are likely voters in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Colorado, Nevada, and maybe Ohio. These national polls don’t mean anything”.
The CNN poll was conducted by SSRS, a research company that spoke to 1,002 respondents over the phone between April 3 and April 6.
The survey also found 26 per cent of those interviewed were “extremely enthusiastic” about voting in this year’s presidential election, compared to 35 per cent who were in March.
The polling company asked individuals if all voting should be conducted by mail, or if it was important that states continue in-person voting, even if fewer people use it this year.
Just over half (54 per cent ) thought in-person voting should still be offered, while 41 per cent said all voting should be done by mail.
Biden’s Democrat competition, Bernie Sanders, ended his bid for the White House on Wednesday,
clearing the path for Joe Biden to face Trump in November’s election.
Sanders addressed his supporters via livestream on his website shortly after his announcement.
The progressive politician revealed that he’d spent the last few weeks mulling over the “difficult and painful” decision to quit the race.
“I wish I could give you better news, but I think we know the truth,” he told his supporters from his home in Burlington.
“We are 300-something delegates away from Joe Biden, meaning that the path to victory is virtually impossible.”
Minutes after Sanders’ announcement ended, Biden praised him as a “great leader” and “one of the most powerful voices for change in our country.”
“It’s hard to sum up his contributions to our politics in one, single tweet. So I won’t try to,” Biden tweeted.
Following the news, Trump urged Sanders supporters to vote for him, telling reporters he hopes his campaign gets “a lot of Bernie Sanders people, just like they did last time [in 2016]”.
“We got a tremendous percentage of Bernie people,” he said.
Trump had tweeted about Sanders’ exit minutes after news of his departure surfaced.
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The president seemingly implied that Sanders’ decision to end his campaign was a plot by Democrats and the Democratic National Convention.
“Bernie Sanders is OUT!” he wrote Wednesday morning.
“This ended just like the Democrats & The DNC wanted, same as the Crooked Hillary fiasco.”
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