Former President Donald Trump is beating President Biden in six of the seven key swing states for the 2024 election, according to a new poll, with voters raising concerns about the 81-year-old incumbent’s mental fitness and his handling of the economy and immigration issues.
A Wall Street Journal survey released Wednesday found Trump, 77, is leading in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia by between one and three percentage points and in North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada by at or more than the poll’s four-point margin of error.
In all seven states surveyed, voters rated Biden’s job performance negatively by margins of 16 percentage points or more.
Meanwhile, Trump received a negative job performance rating in just one of the seven states: Arizona.
By the issues, a majority of the voters said Trump was the better candidate to handle the economy and border security, with 54% and 52% backing the former president, respectively.
Just 34% said Biden was the better pick for dealing with the economy, and 32% favored the president on immigration issues.
Notably, just 28% said Biden has the “mental and physical fitness needed to be president.”
A plurality of voters (48%) said Trump had the requisite mental and physical capabilities.