Trump crushes Biden’s lead in this state

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• Joe Biden’s lead over President Donald Trump in Texas has evaporated, with Trump now leading by 2 percent, according to a recent poll released Sunday by The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler.
• The latest poll was made between August 28 and September 2, making the race in Texas a virtual coin flip, with Trump’s lead within the margin of error.
• No Democratic presidential candidate has won The Lonestar State since 1976 when former President Jimmy Carter was elected.

Joe Biden’s lead over President Donald Trump in the Lone Star State has vanished, according to the latest poll, leaving the race a toss-up in Texas just two months before the November election. 

Trump is now leading the Democratic presidential candidate among likely voters, 48 to 46 percent, according to the poll released on Sunday by The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler. 

In early July, Biden had been leading Trump among likely Texas voters by 5 points in a similar poll.

It is likely that Trump’s white supporters in the state has driven the lead, according to The Dallas Morning News. Biden, on the other hand, is supported by Hispanic and Black voters in the state. The poll indicates that 60 percent of white voters back Trump, while 87 percent of Hispanic voters and 58 percent of Black voters back Biden. 

The race is tighter among registered voters, with the former vice president at 44 percent and Trump at 43 percent. 

No Democratic presidential candidate has won in the state since 1976 when former President Carter was elected. But Democrats have been pushing it as a key battleground state in the upcoming election after close down-ballot races.

In the Senate race, the poll also found that Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) leads his Democratic challenger, MJ Hegar, by double digits, though the Republican incumbent’s lead has decreased since the early July poll. 

Cornyn is now supported by 39 percent of likely voters, compared with Hegar’s 28 percent, but there is an additional 28 percent who said they are undecided, based on the poll. 

The survey was conducted Aug. 28 to Sept. 2. It surveyed 1,176 registered voters and has a margin of error of 2.87 percentage points for those respondents. The margin of error for the 901 likely voters within that group is 3.26 percentage points.

Source: The Hill