The big November bust-up

WITH the US presidential election only six months away, President Joe Biden seems to be in dire electoral straits.

A new set of polling results released last Monday (May 13) by Siena College and The New York Times showed he’s losing to Republican candidate Donald Trump in five of six battleground states.

The White House incumbent trails Trump in Nevada by 12 points (38 per cent to 50 per cent), in Georgia by 10 (39 per cent to 49 per cent), and in Michigan and Arizona by 7 (42 per cent to 49 per cent). Trump is also now ahead by three points (47 per cent to 44 per cent) in Pennsylvania and Biden leads by two in Wisconsin (47 per cent to 45 per cent), suggesting that it’s a toss-up in these two states.