New poll shows Trump trailing Biden and Bernie in Florida
A new 2020 poll released hours before Donald Trump formally launches his re-election bid in Florida shows the president trailing Democratic White House hopefuls Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders in the nation’s largest swing state.
The former vice president leads Trump among Florida voters by 50-41 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll published Tuesday ahead of the president’s campaign kickoff rally at Orlando’s Amway Center.Trump also trails the Vermont senator by a 48-42 percent margin, while head-to-head match-ups pitting the president against other top-polling Democratic rivals are “too close to call,” according to the survey.
“Florida Republicans have won the last five major statewide elections, all by very close margins, but Sunshine State Democrats see these very early numbers as a sign that their losing streak might be coming to an end,” Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said in a statement — adding that Trump “basically ties other leading Democratic challengers.
poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201906/2985/1155968404_6049659895001_6049658605001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404"But a majority of Florida voters, 51 percent, disapprove of Trump’s job performance as president, according to the poll. Roughly 54 percent of respondents, however, said they were better off financially today than they were in 2016.
The leak of a dismal 17-state internal survey showing the president lagging behind Biden in several battleground states recently rankled Trump and resulted in his campaign
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