Poll: Trump would beat Biden head-to-head

Donald Trump would beat President Joe Biden by 3 points in a hypothetical head-to-head election, a new poll shows as most Americans say they don’t want a rematch in 2020.

48 percent of registered voters said they would vote for Trump — and 45 percent said they would vote for Biden, in an ABC News/Washington Post poll released Sunday.

While this falls within the four-point margin of error, it is a deviation from September, when Biden beat Trump by two points.

Independent voters, possibly the most important block of voters in the recent national election, favor Trump by nine percentage points, at a ratio of 50% to 41%.

Most Americans are not looking forward to a Trump-Biden rematch in 2024 and instead want candidates other than their respective nominees.

If Biden ran for a second term in 2024, 30 percent of Americans said they would be “angry,” while another 32 percent said they were “unhappy but not angry.”

A new poll shows Americans are not looking forward to the prospect of a rematch between President Joe Biden (right) and his predecessor Donald Trump (left) in 2020.

The new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows the favor has turned since September and Trump would now win by 3 percentage points in a hypothetical head-to-head election against Biden

Just 7 percent of respondents said they would be “thrilled” if Biden won re-election, and 29 percent said they would be “satisfied” but not thrilled.

The prospects for another Trump presidency weren’t much better.

Thirty-six percent of the 1,003 respondents said they would be “angry” if he won four more years, while 20 percent said they would be “dissatisfied.”

Meanwhile, the former president fared better than Biden on the positive side of the spectrum. 17 percent said they would be excited about another Trump White House, and 26 percent said they would be happy.

Dissatisfied with the latest poll, Trump responded with anger on his social media site Truth Social on Sunday morning, using his offensive nicknames for two outlets conducting the poll — “ABC Fake News” and “Washington Compost.”

“To all my many supporters, and the number is higher than ever, I am pleased to report that ‘our’ poll numbers are excellent,” Trump said in his post.

“Polls are important, but many have a history of being so corrupt, wrong, or incompetent,” he added, “particularly those of ABC FAKE NEWS/WASHINGTON COMPOST; FOX FALSE NEWS; and NBC FAKE NEWS/GLOBALIST STREET JOURNAL that they’ve become somewhat irrelevant, just a political weapon. CNN polls don’t matter anymore as so few people watch CNN (and MSDNC) anymore!’

The poll found that 58 percent of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independent voters would want a candidate other than Biden as their nominee for the 2024 presidential election. On the other hand, 31 percent said they support Biden.

Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 49 percent said they would prefer a non-Trump candidate as their candidate, versus the 44 percent who want Trump to run again for the White House.

On both the Democrat and Republican sides, support for their respective presidents has been essentially unchanged since the same poll in September.

The poll shows just 7% of voters are “thrilled” with Biden’s re-election bid, while 17% feel the same about a second term with Trump

Trump blasted the poll in a tweet Sunday morning, claiming that the major news outlets “have proven so corrupt, wrong or incompetent” that all polls are “somewhat meaningless” and “just a political weapon.”

Respondents mostly said they would like to see other main candidates in 2024. Trump-era ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley (pictured) will announce her candidacy this month in South Carolina, where she was formerly governor

While it’s unclear whether any Democrats will be brave enough to take on Biden should he announce a reelection bid, which hasn’t officially happened yet, there are several Republicans who have expressed interest in an anti-Trump bid.

So far, Trump is the only major Republican to announce his 2024 candidacy. But his former ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, is announcing her offer later this month.

Others are also making visits to early primary competition states like New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina — suggesting more upcoming bids to come.

These include former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, among others.

Many Republicans want the very popular Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for the White House. Trump has made him public enemy #1 by launching a series of lines of attack against DeSantis over the past few weeks as he officially enters the 2024 campaign.