Posted on 10/08/2019 3:43:44 AM PDT by grayboots
President Trump is gaining among independent voters in head-to-head matchups with the Democratic presidential front-runners, according to a new IBD-TIPP poll.
Former Vice President Joe Biden leads Trump by just 1 point among independents, which is down from Biden's 18-point lead among the voting group in September.
In a head-to-head matchup with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), 49 percent of independents backed Trump, while 43 percent threw their support behind the senator in the poll, which was released on Monday.
A 4-point gap separated Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Trump, with the president receiving 48 percent support among independents and Sanders garnering 44 percent.
Warren led Trump with independents by 2 points in the September poll, while Sanders led the president by 9 points.
The new poll comes as tensions between Trump and Biden have risen on the campaign trail as the president has intensified his attacks against the former vice president, accusing Biden of efforts to pressure Ukraine to dismiss a senior prosecutor who at one point had investigated an energy company where Biden's son had served as a board member.
There is no evidence that Biden advocated for the prosecutor's removal as a means of protecting his son.
Independent voters will likely play an impactful role in the 2020 general election. Forty-three percent of voters who said they identified as independent said they voted for Trump in 2016, while 42 percent went for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, according to the Pew Research Center.
The IBD-TIPP poll was conducted from Sept. 26 to Oct. 3 among 900 adults. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.
Given everything they've thrown at Trump without damaging him severely, a successful October surprise next year seems improbable, not that that would discourage their desperate--Satanic--lunacy.
I don’t think there’s anything they can make up that could hurt Trump much, but I expect them to keep getting crazier and crazier the closer we get to the election. I also think they will be much more brazen in committing election fraud. Trump’s team needs to be ready to prevent as much of that as possible, and have people ready to fight it when it does happens. We should all stay positive, but we can’t get overconfident either. None of us should feel there was anything more we could have done after the election. We should volunteer and donate whatever we can to help save our country.
There’s no question that the Ukrainian prosecutor was fired as a result of Biden threatening to pull 1.5B in U.S. aid if he wasn’t. Biden is on video bragging about doing so. The question is why did he want the prosecutor fired? The Biden camp and their media collaborators are pushing the absurd claim that Biden’s demand to have him fired was based on his concern that the prosecutor was corrupt. Any clear thinking person can see that explanation for the cover story that it is. It doesn’t make sense on so many levels. How many corrupt politicians are there in the Ukraine? For some reason Biden got religion and drew a line in the sand with this one?
In addition, John Solomon, this past week, released documents that strongly suggest the corruption allegations against the prosecutor were disinformation spread by Obama admin. officials in order to get the guy fired. And it just so happens that the prosecutor was investigating corruption allegations against Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian gas company that appointed Hunter Biden to its board - for which he received over 50,000 a month in payment.
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These are massive swings toward Trump.
“There’s no question that the Ukrainian prosecutor was fired as a result of Biden threatening ...”
I recall the things you say. Guess politics is keeping this away from the public.
Lets go to the video tape!
No hard evidence....yet
There is no evidence of Trump’s ‘doings’ either.
Yup,it will...if for no other reason than the fact that they've got nothing else to offer.
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Lets go to the video tape!
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