- Biden won the state in 2020 by just 20,000 votes
- She is trailing Trump, while Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin is leading her opponent.
Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden by five points in a new poll in Wisconsin, a critical battleground that Biden won in 2020 and is a key part of one of his most promising paths to reelection.
Trump leads Biden 50-45 in head-to-head matchup in a FabrizioWard/Impact Research survey conducted for AARP.
His lead is 44 to 38 when polling against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other candidates with lower poll scores.
He survey It comes after Biden’s debate disaster, as Democrats are debating whether to try to pressure Biden to drop out of the race amid fears he will be a liability to the ticket.
In a result consistent with other battleground states, Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin is leading Biden.
Baldwin leads Republican Eric Hovde 50-45, a similar margin to the one Trump has over Biden.
President Joe Biden trails Donald Trump by 5 points in new Wisconsin poll
Baldwin is among the Democrats seeking re-election who have raised questions about Biden’s prospects as a candidate. “I traveled all over the state during the July 4 recess,” he told DailyMail.com on Tuesday.
Baldwin said he’s “heard a lot of concerns about the president’s ability to win this election. And so I think everyone is watching very closely how he performs this week,” he said on a day when senators and House members met separately to discuss Biden’s situation.
Trump leads polls in many key battlegrounds as Democrats weigh whether to try to remove Biden from the ticket
Biden won Wisconsin to defeat Trump in 2020, garnering about 20,000 votes even as Trump and his Republican allies challenged and denied the results.
It is one of three Rust Belt battlegrounds, including Michigan and Pennsylvania, that offer him a path to victory amid a slump in polls in other states he won, including Georgia, Nevada and Arizona.
The poll was conducted after Biden’s debate. Another Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll that ran through the July 4 weekend showed Biden leading Trump 47 to 44.
Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio’s firm conducted the survey.