New polls show Biden slipping further behind Trump in critical swing states
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🗓️ 10 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | And new data is now forecasting that an electoral map that's leading more heavily |
| 0:05.3 | towards Donald Trump adding to those concerns about Biden's candidacy. |
| 0:09.3 | So walk us through these new numbers and the current electoral landscape. |
| 0:12.8 | We're joined by Amy Walter of the Cook political report with Amy Walter. |
| 0:16.8 | It's great to have you here. |
| 0:17.8 | Great to be here. |
| 0:18.4 | So your organization is forecasting some major changes in six key states. |
| 0:23.4 | They're all moving closer to Donald Trump, |
| 0:25.2 | including three battleground states that include |
| 0:27.8 | Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada. |
| 0:30.6 | That leaves three toss-ups remaining, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. |
| 0:37.0 | Walk us through what's happening here and then help us understand how you arrived at this, |
| 0:41.6 | especially given what Law reported where the |
| 0:43.4 | Biden campaign is saying the polls, the polls are all wrong. |
| 0:45.6 | That's right. Well even if the polls are wrong, what we know before the debate |
| 0:49.7 | was those three states that we moved from being toss up, which in our parlance means anybody can win. |
| 0:55.4 | It's so close, we can't, we really can't put a thumb on the scale either way. |
| 0:59.5 | From that category to more Republican is that Biden was trailing by a pretty significant |
| 1:08.1 | amount in those three states. Part of the reason that we kept it in that |
| 1:12.3 | toss-up category is we know how close the race had the potential to become, especially post election. |
| 1:18.5 | I mean, sorry, post-debate. |
| 1:20.7 | The debate was going to be the opportunity, which we heard time and time again from the |
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