Donald Trump has a four-point edge over President Joe Biden ahead of their first debate of the 2024 campaign, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll released Wednesday.
While the candidates were neck-and-neck in a poll from April, Trump is polling at 48 percent among likely voters and Biden at 44 percent, the poll found.
The poll was taken after Trump’s conviction in his hush-money case in New York City. Asked about the verdict, 19 percent of registered voters said it would make them less likely to vote for him, 11 percent said more likely and 68 percent said it would make no difference. Forty-six percent of registered voters said they approved of the verdict, compared to 30 percent who disapproved.
Fundraising numbers have shown growing support for the former president. At the end of May, Trump’s campaign had $116.6 million in the bank, compared to $91.6 million for Biden. Biden’s campaign had its single biggest day of online fundraising the day after Trump was convicted, raising $8.1 million on May 31.
Among likely voters, 55 percent believe Trump has committed serious crimes while 39 percent do not, according to the poll.
Poll results show that voters are unhappy with the presumed nominees of the 2024 election. Sixty-one percent of respondents said there should be a different Democratic nominee and 54 percent said there should be a different Republican nominee.
