by Mary Lou Masters
Former President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden by a whopping 10 points in Michigan, a state Biden won in 2020, according to a Monday poll.
Trump leads Biden by 10 points among registered voters in Michigan and by 5 points in Georgia, according to a CNN/SSRS poll. Majorities of registered voters in both the swing states hold negative views of Biden’s job performance, policies and mental acuity ahead of a potential 2024 rematch with Trump.
The former president won both states in 2016 against Hillary Clinton, but lost Michigan and Georgia to Biden in 2020 by 2.8 and 0.3 points, respectively.
Trump received a significant amount of support from voters who said they didn’t cast a ballot in 2020, with the former president leading Biden by 26 points among that electorate in Georgia and 40 points in Michigan, according to the survey. Those who said they voted in 2020 favor Trump over Biden for 2024, with the former president losing more support from his backers last cycle.
Only 35 percent of voters in Michigan approve of Biden’s job performance, with 39 percent saying the same in Georgia, according to the poll. Majorities in both states said Biden doesn’t have the policies they’re looking for in a president, and 69 percent of voters in Michigan and 66 percent in Georgia held negative views of the president’s sharpness and stamina.
The poll comes after numerous national and swing-state polls have found Trump leading Biden in a hypothetical 2024 rematch. Trump currently leads Biden by 2.2 points in the RealClearPolitics average.
Trump also fared better against Biden among voters under the age of 45, as he led the president 50 percent to 40 percent in Georgia and 49 percent to 38 percent in Michigan, according to the survey.
The former president held his lead over Biden when independents Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West were on the ballot, where the two brought in a combined 26 percent support in Michigan and 21 percent in Georgia, according to the poll. Trump broadened his lead over Biden by 3 points in Georgia with the independents in the mix, but dropped by 2 points in Michigan.
Trump also holds a large lead in both states’ GOP primaries, garnering 58 percent support in Michigan and 55 percent in Georgia, the poll found. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is far behind Trump in Michigan with 15 percent, followed by former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley at 13 percent, and the two are tied for second in Georgia at 17 percent.
The CNN/SSRS survey polled 1,197 registered voters in Michigan and 1,068 registered voters in Georgia from November 30 to December 7, with margins of error of plus or minus 3.4 percent and 3.3 percent, respectively.
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Mary Lou Masters is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
