Former President Donald Trump is leading President Biden in all seven critical swing states and has an even larger margin in most states when also up against independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a new poll shows.
Trump, 77, has the largest margins against Biden, 81, in North Carolina (47-42%), Arizona (48-44%) and Georgia (47-44%), according to the Emerson College poll released Tuesday.
The 45th president leads 45-44% in Michigan and Nevada and 47-45% in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
All the state head-to-head polls have an 8% to 11% undecided rate, meaning each party candidate has the potential to win over a wide margin of voters before November.
With third-party candidates added in, the president suffers more than Trump. RFK Jr. takes more votes away from Biden in Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, opening up the margin for Trump even wider against Biden.
In Arizona, Kennedy comes in at 9%, and with the addition of Cornel West and the Green Party’s Jill Stein (coming in at 2% together), Biden is left with 40% compared to Trump’s 44%. Kennedy is polling at 6% in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, making Biden suffer 37-46%, 41-45% and 40-45%, respectively, with West and Stein polling in the single digits.
