According to a new poll, voters aren’t too confident in what appears to be their top two choices for president this fall, as more Americans continue to worry about President Biden and former President Trump serving another term.
The poll comes from CBS News/YouGov and looked to examine how voters in key states — Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — viewed Trump and Biden. It found that 55% of voters shared that Biden makes them feel more worried than anything, while 48% said the same for Trump.
Even worse, among the emotions that the pollsters asked respondents to associate with Trump and Biden, confidence was ranked third for Trump (38%) and sixth for Biden (24%).
Second for Biden was insecure, which 41% of voters said they felt when thinking of Biden, while Trump’s number two emotion was anger, with 44%.
“This is not a great thing for either of them. You’d like to think that there might be some positive words there,” KCBS political analyst Mark Sandalow shared.
Other top emotions included 40% of voters feeling angry with Biden and 33% feeling calm. Additionally, 35% of voters said Trump makes them feel secure, while 32% said he makes them feel insecure.
Among several issues touched on in the poll was the economy, as voters shared with the pollsters that they felt they would be better off financially with Trump in office (47%) instead of Biden (21%).
Sandalow says that in all three states, the sentiment seemed to be the same: Trump is better suited to handle the economy.
“In all three of the states, the poll found that more people thought the economy was much better under Donald Trump, that it is under Joe Biden, and that they have much more confidence,” Sandalow said.
But while voters don’t seem happy with either Trump or Biden as their main options for president, Sandalow says that voter turnout is still expected to remain high.
“They also asked people how likely they were to vote, and if you look at this in each state, it was just about 90% of the people… said they are definitely going to vote,” he said.
Giving respondents four options, the poll found that 45% of voters plan on casting their ballots for Biden, while 43% said the same for Trump. Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received 9%, and Jill Stein received 3%.
The poll was conducted from April 19-25 and included responses from 1,287 registered voters in Michigan, 1,306 in Pennsylvania, and 1,245 in Wisconsin. There is a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.