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Richard Luscombe

Blow to Biden as poll shows Trump in lead for 2024 presidential election

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Former US president Donald Trump at New York state supreme court in New York, on 7 December 2023. Photograph: Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Donald Trump has nudged ahead of Joe Biden in national polling for the 2024 presidential election, a survey published on Saturday revealed, a day after the US president branded his predecessor as “despicable” at an event in California.

The Wall Street Journal poll shows Biden with the lowest approval rating of his presidency, a finding broadly in line with other recent studies that have sparked concern in Democratic circles less than a year before voters go to the polls.

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