Here are the ways that Joe Biden’s advantage in the polls is different than Hillary Clinton’s lead was in October 2016.
WASHINGTON — For many political junkies and analysts, the 2020 presidential campaign feels eerily familiar. The national polls show that the Democrat has a big lead. Some usually Republican states seem to be in play. And the Trump campaign is relying heavily on a strategy of focusing on its base.
showed Joe Biden ahead of President Donald Trump by 11 percentage points among registered voters. In 2016, a poll conducted on almost the exact same days showed Hillary Clinton ahead of Trump by 10 points among registered voters. There is another similarity that works out to be a big difference: the number of people who believe the country is"off on the wrong track." In the latest poll, that number, 62 percent, is very close to where it was in 2016, 65 percent.
And for comparison, Trump's current feeling rating is a 42 percent positive and 53 percent negative — a net minus-11. In addition, many more independents have settled on one of the two major candidates in 2020 than in 2016: 85 percent vs. 62 percent. That means there may be less chance for movement among them.
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