Voters are split in three battleground states when faced with the exclusive choice of voting for either President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump, a new CBS News poll has found.
Surveying voters across Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, the poll found that both Biden and Trump are virtually tied.
In Michigan, voters expressed only a slight preference for Biden at 51% compared to Trump at 49%. Pennsylvania held a similar outcome, with 49% for Biden and a slight lead of 50% for Trump. And again, in Wisconsin, Biden clung on to 49% of the vote, with Trump eking out the slight lead of 50%.
For the respective Midwest voters, the omnipresent topic of conversation is the concern of inflation and the fear of an economy that continues to spiral. Nearly half of those surveyed in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin said their state's economy had worsened since 2020.
Thinking back to the Trump administration, 62% of Michigan voters, 61% of Pennsylvania voters, and 62% of Wisconsin voters recalled the economy under Trump as "good."
The poll was conducted from April 19-25. It surveyed 1,287 registered voters in Michigan, 1,306 in Pennsylvania, and 1,245 in Wisconsin. The margin of error for registered voters was ± 3.1 points in Michigan and Pennsylvania and ± 3.2 points in Wisconsin.