Former President Donald Trump has rocketed ahead of President Joe Biden by nine points in the president’s home state of Pennsylvania, a new bombshell poll shows.
An Emerson College poll released Wednesday found that 45 percent of Pennsylvania’s registered voters plan to back Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, while 36 percent said they’d back Biden.
While Biden represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate for 36 years, he was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and brings up his ties to the commonwealth when he campaigns in the Keystone State.
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The survey found that Pennsylvania’s youngest voters were hesitant to support the 80-year-old Biden – a surprise as Democrats have had a lock on the youth vote for a number of presidential election cycles.
Spencer Kimball, the executive director of Emerson College Polling, explained that while Biden leads Trump 44 percent to 39 percent among voters under 40, when voters ages 18 to 29 were broken out, they broke for Trump 45 percent to 39 percent.
About half of Trump’s and Biden’s Pennsylvania voters said nothing would move them to vote for someone else.
For Trump it’s 50 percent and for Biden a slightly larger sum of 53 percent.
The margin of error for the poll was plus or minus 4.7 percent.
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In 2016, Pennsylvania was one of a trio of classically blue states that Trump won to beat Democrat Hillary Clinton and win the White House.
But in 2020 Biden was able to pry the commonwealth back into the Democratic column, beating Trump by about 80,000 votes.
When asked about the 2016 and 2020 elections, 61 percent of Pennsylvanians said they thought Trump won fairly in 2016, while a smaller percentage, 52 percent, believed Biden’s win in 2020 was legitimate.
Republicans were more likely to believe that election fraud existed in 2020 versus Democrats believing there were problems with the 2016 count.
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On the flip side, 53 percent of Pennsylvania Democrats believe that Trump won the 2016 election with no issues, while 32 percent thikn he stole the election against Clinton.
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