New polling on the 2024 presidential race released by Quinnipiac University shows a lead of three percentage points in Pennsylvania for incumbent President Joe Biden in a one-on-one match-up against Donald Trump, who remains on track to be the Republican nominee for the upcoming presidential race no matter his extensive criminal charges.
Biden had 49 percent of the support, while Trump had 46 percent. Adding other contenders to the match-up — specifically, presidential candidates from outside the two major parties — brought the overall levels of support behind both Biden and Trump down as some prospective voters went elsewhere, but the Democrat was still leading. And in some of the most recent polling, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is getting claimed levels of support for which there just isn’t serious precedent in results from recent presidential elections, suggesting the indications of support behind Kennedy are more like a bubble.
This polling was conducted among registered voters. Pennsylvania was a central part of the 2020 presidential race, with results there close and the jurisdiction flipping from Trump to Biden going from the 2016 contest to four years later. Pennsylvania was among the states where Trump allies assembled sham slates of electors backing Trump on a claimed behalf of the state despite Biden actually winning the jurisdiction, though participating individuals from Pennsylvania have so far evaded charges.
Three states so far have seen charges against sham electors: Georgia, Michigan, and Nevada. Even the chairman of the state Republican Party was charged in Nevada. And in Georgia, among those charged is a former chairman of their state Republican Party.
Trump continues in his latest campaign to peddle falsehoods about the 2020 presidential race, continuing his claims that he was somehow robbed of his rightful win. Amid a court case over his schemes to stay in power, he’s been contending he was simply looking for possible fraud as part of his duties as president, though he was actively challenging what in reality were millions of legitimate, duly documented votes from nationwide.
