New Fox Poll Has Biden Leading Trump: ‘His Best Result This Election Cycle’

A new Fox News poll shows President Joe Biden leading former President Donald Trump 50% to 48%, nationally. The survey is Biden’s best showing in a Fox News poll in the campaign.

The poll of registered voters was conducted from June 14 to June 17. In asking respondents to list issues that are “extremely” important to them, the survey found that the “future of democracy” tops the charts, with 68% of voters identifying it as such. Biden has made the preservation of democracy a centerpiece of his campaign after his predecessor tried to overturn the 2020 election.

“President Biden gets his best result this election cycle in the head-to-head against former president Donald Trump,” Bret Baier announced at the top of Wednesday’s Special Report . “He leads 50-48. That is within the margin of error.”

Biden’s lead over Trump decreases by one point when third-party candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , Jill Stein , and Cornel West are included – 43% to 42%.

Biden and Trump both continue to have atrocious favorable ratings, with the president at 44% and the ex-president at 43%. Voter sentiment on the economy continues to portend trouble for Biden, as 68% say the economy is “not so good” or “poor.”

The caveats here are that the election is still five months away, and also the fact that national polls don’t tell the story of swing states, which Biden will need to win again to avoid a repeat of 2016. In that contest, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by nearly three million, only to lose the electoral vote tally by 77.

Biden and Trump will have their first debate on Thursday, June 27.

The latest Fox News poll will likely irk Trump, who has been touting his poll numbers in recent weeks. Earlier in the day, the former president went on the attack against the network, demanding its parent company Fox Corp. remove former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan from its board.

“Nobody can ever trust Fox News, and I am one of them, with the weak and ineffective RINO, Paul Ryan, on its Board of Directors,” he wrote on Truth Social.

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