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The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang

Poll showing Trump up 10 points over Biden for 2024 election criticized

Composite of Biden and Trump with fists raised
Most polls suggest that a 2024 contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump will be close, not a 10-point blowout as a new poll indicates. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images

A new Washington Post-ABC poll showing Joe Biden trailing his presidential predecessor Donald Trump by 10 percentage points was excoriated by the leading political pollster Larry Sabato.

Noting that the pollsters themselves cautioned that their survey was an outlier, Sabato – the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia – called the decision to release it “ridiculous”.

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