Former President Donald Trump has widened his CBS News/YouGov poll lead over President Joe Biden to a new high of 4 points as Super Tuesday figures to make a 2020 rematch all but official.
With Americans going sour on Biden's presidency, Trump is drawing 52% support in a head-to-head matchup versus Biden (48%).
Notably, a majority of Trump backers (51%) say their vote is based on liking the candidate, while a plurality of Biden backers (47%) do not base their vote on liking him (just 31%).
Among the other bad signs for Biden:
- 66% say things in America are going badly under Biden.
- 45% say Biden has done poorly as president.
- 45% say Biden's southern border is "a crisis."
- 50% believe a second Biden term would exacerbate the border crisis.
- 72% say a second Trump term would reduce illegal crossings.
- 37% say Democrats' diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts have gone "too far," while 37% also say Republicans' stances on DEI "are about right."
- 55% say a Biden second term would make prices go up.
- 44% say a second Trump term would make prices go down.
- Trump (45%) leads Biden (17%) by 28 points on being "physically healthy enough" to be president again.
- Trump leads Biden by 17 points (43%-26%) on "mental and cognitive health" to serve as president again.
YouGov polled 2,159 U.S. adults Feb. 28-March 1 and the results have a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
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