NEW: Politico Obtains Poll Revealing ‘Nearly Every Tested Democrat Performs Better’ Than Biden

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Politico Playbook reported on a new poll conducted by BlueLabs Analytics that spells out bad news for President Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate.

As the push for Biden to leave the race amid questions about his fitness for office continue, the new poll asked 15,000 voters in seven battleground states — Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia — to cast their imaginary vote in a race between former President Donald Trump and Biden as well as a different Democratic candidate, including Vice President Kamala Harris . The polling took place between July 5 and July 12 and the data was collected during interviews. (It was not specified whether the interviews were over the phone or in person.) The memo from BlueLabs Analytics did not cite a margin of error.

According to the poll results, every other Democratic candidate outperformed Biden against Trump. These were the topline results:

Alternative Democratic candidates run ahead of President Biden by an average of three points across the battleground states. Nearly every tested Democrat performs better than the President. This includes Vice President Harris who runs better than the President (but behind the average alternative).

Some of the gains are coming from winning undecideds and those previously supporting a third party. However, alternative candidates are also pulling votes from Donald Trump. All candidates continue to hold the Democratic base.

Voters are looking for a fresh face. Those more closely tied to the current administration perform relatively worse than other tested candidates.

When it came to that fresh face, the four candidates who performed the strongest were (in alphabetical order, because there were no polling numbers attached to them in the memo): Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D), Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D). According to the memo, all four of these candidates outperformed Biden “by roughly 5 points across battleground states.”

The poll comes amid reports that Democrats are still trying to figure out a way to replace Biden on the ticket ahead of November, even while others try to push to accelerate the nomination process before the Democratic National Convention next month.

Editor’s note: This story has been corrected to clarify that the BlueLab Analytics poll is not a poll conducted by Politico, but an independent poll Politico reported on. We apologize for the error.