Swing State Voters Are Souring on Biden

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🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In a major new campaign poll from The New York Times and Siena College, former President Donald J. Trump leads President Biden in five of the six battleground states likeliest to decide the 2024 presidential race. Widespread discontent with the state of the country and growing doubts about Biden’s ability to perform his job as president threaten to unravel the diverse coalition that elected him in 2020. Nate Cohn, The Times’s chief political analyst, explains why the results are less a reflection of Trump’s growing strength than they are of Biden’s growing weaknesses.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Wabaro.
0:04.0	This is the daily one.
0:07.0	Today, a major.
0:12.0	A major new campaign poll from the Times conducted in the swing states that may determine
0:18.9	the 2024 presidential race show that Donald Trump is now leading President Biden. President says the results are less a reflection of Trump's growing strength than they are of
0:36.1	Biden's growing weaknesses. It's Monday, Monday, November 6th.
0:47.0	It's Monday, November 6th. Next.
0:59.0	Nate, nice to have you in the studio. Michael, always a pleasure.
1:00.0	Nate, when this episode publishes on Monday, we will be pretty much precisely a year out
1:08.0	from the general election of the 2024 presidential race.
1:12.6	Just under one year.
1:14.1	And that is why this poll is beautifully timed.
1:17.6	So tell us about the scope of this latest installment
1:22.3	of the New York Times political polling operation.
1:26.7	We conducted polls of the six states that we think are likeliest to decide the presidency.
1:31.8	The swing states? The swing states. Can you just name them?
1:34.4	Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada. Five of those six
1:39.8	states flipped from Donald Trump in 2016 to Joe Biden in 2020 and decided the election
1:45.4	in the president's favor.
1:47.5	And they just to say for listeners who may be wondering because of the timing of this poll, the results you're about to walk us through,
1:55.0	don't capture the impact of the war between Israel and Hamas.
2:00.0	Don't measure something like the effect of President Biden's strong support for Israel
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