Former President Trump topped President Biden by 4 points among likely voters in a new poll from The New York Times/Siena College.
The poll, released Wednesday, found 48 percent of likely voters saying they would vote for Trump in a hypothetical match-up between the two. Forty-four percent in the same poll said they would vote for Biden in a hypothetical match-up.
The poll came ahead of a Thursday debate on CNN between Biden and Trump, the first time the two have gone head-to-head since 2020.
In a hypothetical election when other candidates like independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Green Party’s Jill Stein were included, Trump received 40 percent support and Biden received 37 percent in the Times/Siena poll among the likely electorate.
Kennedy expressed his frustration last week following CNN’s announcement that he would not make the cut for the debate.
“Presidents Biden and Trump do not want me on the debate stage and CNN illegally agreed to their demand,” Kennedy claimed in a statement via his campaign. “My exclusion by Presidents Biden and Trump from the debate is undemocratic, un-American, and cowardly.”
The Times/Siena poll was conducted June 20-25 and featured 1,226 registered voters, has a margin of error of 3 percentage points when it comes to registered voters and 3.2 percentage points when it comes to the likely electorate.