Trump leads Biden in Georgia in 1st major poll after shooting

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A new poll released Thursday shows Donald Trump — only hours away from headlining the GOP convention’s final night — leading President Joe Biden in all seven potential battleground states, including Georgia.

The Emerson College poll is the first large-scale presidential poll since last Saturday’s attempted assassination of the former president. The poll was sponsored by Democrats for the Next Generation.

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Trump leads Biden in all seven swing states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — by a margin of 5.2 percentage points, 46.8% to 41.6%.

But the poll also found a hypothetical “qualified Democratic candidate younger than Biden” leads Trump in all seven swing states by a margin of 7.4 percentage points, 53.7% to 46.3%.

More than two-thirds of swing voters in the swing states think President Biden is not “fit to be the next U.S. president” and that he should withdraw from the race.

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“Recent polling shows Biden losing support more significantly than Trump gaining it since the attempted assassination,” said Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling. “This raises questions about whether Biden’s decline is still influenced by the debate or if Trump has reached his support ceiling.”

Six out of 10 independent voters think Vice President Kamala Harris has not earned the right to be the next Democratic nominee for president. However, Democrats and Independents believe if Harris were to emerge from public debates as the Democratic nominee, the process of public debates would make her more likely to win the general election.