Polling of registered voters in Michigan has found a lead for President Joe Biden in a hypothetical rematch later this year of the 2020 presidential election, meaning another face-off against Donald Trump.
In the survey, which was completed January 10, Biden had 45 percent of the support, while Trump had 41 percent. An additional portion reaching 14 percent said they were undecided or unsure. Trump and Biden were the only two named in that face-off.
This polling emerged alongside other recent data from Pennsylvania by Qunnipiac University that found a lead for Biden among both registered voters, and, more specifically, respondents 65 years old and up — the latter of which is a group commonly associated with Republican support. Some exit polling from the 2020 presidential race, for instance, found Trump leading by five percentage points among seniors. Among Pennsylvania’s registered voters, Quinnipiac found Biden with 49 percent of the support versus Trump’s 46 percent. In that category of older adults, support for Biden reached a staggering 60 percent.
Both Michigan and Pennsylvania were central in the 2020 presidential race’s progression, with both states flipping from Trump to Biden when moving from the 2016 presidential contest to the face-off four years later.
Both states were also among those principally targeted by Trump and allies of his amid his attempts to stay in power despite the documentation of his election loss, schemes that included the assembling of sham electoral votes ostensibly backing Trump from individual states that Biden won, including these two. Those who joined as claimed electors for Trump despite Biden winning the state — a scheme that, in general, included the preparation of deceptive iterations of supposedly official documentation of all of this — were criminally charged in Michigan.
The new polling from Michigan was conducted by a firm called Target Insyght in collaboration with two public-facing organizations: MIRS.news and Traverse Connect, both Michigan-based. Trump characteristically continues to claim he’s essentially dominating in the swiftly moving lead-up to actual voting in this presidential contest, but the actual data doesn’t provide that level of clarity.
