“The first, the most important quality is someone who — if I walked away immediately from the office for whatever reason — that they can be president,” Biden said. He added that he wants the public to be able to see his pick as “capable of being president of the United States tomorrow.”

He also said that former president Barack Obama’s advice has long been: “Pick someone who has some background or some competence that may not be your strong point” and who could be trusted with presidential authority in some subject area.

Biden added that his pick also must be “intellectually simpatico” so that it’s clear that the vice president speaks on behalf of the president.

Among U.S. adults, 42% said they approved of Trump’s performance in office, while 52% said they disapproved. The president’s overall popularity has been about the same for more than a year. When asked specifically about Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis, 44% approved and 52% disapproved, which is an 8-point drop in net approval since last week and a 13-point drop from last month.

An increasing number of registered voters say they would support Democrat Joe Biden over Trump in the Nov. 3 presidential election. The Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 47% of registered voters said they would vote for Biden, while 39% would vote for Trump. The number of registered voters who said they would vote for Biden has increased by 2 percentage points from a similar poll that ran last week, and by 4 points from a poll that ran two weeks ago.

The poll was conducted during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which has infected at least 795,000 people and killed more than 43,000 in the United States. The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online, in English, throughout the United States. The Trump approval and general election questions gathered responses from 4,429 American adults, including 3,806 who identified as registered voters. The question about sheltering in place gathered responses from 1,004 adults, including 452 Democrats and 404 Republicans.

MagnarTheGreat wrote: ↑

April 19th, 2020, 12:19 pm

Popular Vote margin of leads:
1968 Nixon +0.70R
1972 Nixon +23.15R
1976 Carter +2.07D
1980 Reagan +9.74R
1984 Reagan +18.21R
1988 G. H. W. Bush +7.72R
1992 W. Clinton +5.56D
1996 W. Clinton +8.51D
2000 Gore +0.51D (G. W. Bush (R) won electoral vote)
2004 G. W. Bush +2.47R
2008 Obama +7.26D
2012 Obama +3.86D
2016 H. Clinton +2.09D (Trump (R) won electoral vote)

2020 Biden +7D in that new NBC/WSJ poll.






(>50% of electoral vote needed to win)

CaviezelReese wrote: ↑

April 29th, 2020, 2:34 am

Aren't those the same pollsters who said Hillary was going to defeat Trump in 16?