The president of the United States, Joe Biden, and former president Donald Trump (2017-2021) are now
practically tied
in their presidential race, when the Republican has a 46% advantage compared to the Democrat's 45%, according to a survey published this Saturday by
The New York Times
and Siena.
This is
an improvement for Biden
compared to late February, when Trump had a stronger lead of 48% to the Democrat's 43%.
The tight results of these polls are one more sign that the next presidential elections in November could be very close, as happened in the last two elections in the United States.
To conduct this survey, which has a margin of error plus or minus 3.3 percentage points, 1,059 registered American voters were interviewed between April 7 and 11.
The survey did not ask about possible other candidates, but about 5% volunteered the names of other politicians they planned to vote for, such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Democrat-turned-independent and nephew of former President John F. Kennedy.
The results of this survey show that Biden's advance is due to his better position among traditional Democratic voters, as he is winning a greater proportion of citizens who supported him in 2020 than a month ago.
For his part, Trump had already secured the support of many more of his previous voters compared to the president, but that margin has narrowed.
Trump would now win the vote of 94% of his 2020 supporters and Biden 89% of his supporters from four years ago.
However, most voters think that Biden, 81, is too old and that Trump, 77, has committed serious federal crimes.
The poll comes just ahead of
Trump's historic criminal trial
on charges of falsifying business documents to help cover up an affair with a porn actress set to begin Monday.
Campaign between the courts
Trump will move part of his presidential campaign this weekend to New York, where on Monday he will face a criminal trial for falsifying business documents to help cover up an affair with a porn actress, according to Axios. Trump is expected to attend the trial four days a week and use Thursdays and weekends - days when there will be no trial - for his campaign events.
The criminal trial,
the first faced by a former president in US history,
could last between six and eight weeks.
Around Manhattan Criminal Court and Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, where Trump will remain during the trial, the NYPD will close off areas, increase security cameras and monitor social media to try to detect any threats, according to CNN.
Due to New York rules, the trial is not expected to be televised, but there will be a great media expectation that will "camp out" both in front of Trump Tower and near the Manhattan Criminal Court.
According to Axios, his campaign will make comments to the media about the election while Trump is in court.
Will Trump testify?
At a news conference in Florida on Friday, Trump said he will testify at the trial, a process he described as a "scam" and "trap."
"It is electoral interference by the Biden Administration," he told the press and once again denied the accusation and repeated that it is a
political
witch hunt .
If Trump took the stand it would be another historic moment, however, according to experts, this is unlikely to happen, since the president would have to answer a series of questions under oath.
New York prosecutors say the Republican intentionally withheld business records to cover up a $130,000 payment that Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer and right-hand man, made to porn actress Stormy Daniels in the months before the real estate mogul was fired. elected president in 2016.
Cohen, who is expected to be a key witness for the prosecution, said he made the payment at Trump's direction.
Hope Hicks, Trump's former White House aide, is also expected to take the stand.
Source: EFE
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