Biden leads Trump on law and order, coronavirus: poll

Source: The Hill | September 4, 2020 | Jonathan Easley

Joe Biden leads President Trump by 7 points in a new national poll that finds the Democratic nominee significantly outperforming the president on the coronavirus and curbing violence in American cities.

The latest Harvard CAPS-Harris poll of likely voters finds Biden at 49 percent and Trump at 42 percent, a slightly closer race than the same poll from July, when Biden held a 10-point lead.

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Trump’s handling of the coronavirus continues to be a major problem for him with the election only 60 days out.

Fifty-seven percent of voters say Biden is the preferred candidate to lead the nation out of the coronavirus.

Fifty-eight percent say Trump has done a bad job of managing the pandemic, while 62 percent credit their state governors with having done a good job. Only 35 percent of independents say Trump has done a good job addressing the outbreak.

Fifty-six percent said Trump failed to stop the spread of the virus early on.

Trump has tried to reshape the campaign in recent weeks to focus on the destructive elements of the racial justice protests, saying he’s best the candidate to enforce law and order and accusing Democratic officials of allowing their cities to be overrun by criminals.

But the Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll finds that 58 percent of voters say Biden would do a better job of curbing violence in cities and 57 percent say he’d do better addressing civil unrest. Fifty-nine percent say Biden is better equipped to solve the nation’s issues on race and policing. By a margin of 54-46, Biden leads Trump on establishing law and order. Biden is viewed as the candidate best equipped to bring the country together by a 61-39 margin.

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