Donald Trump surpassed President Biden for the first time in an NBC News national general election poll.
The former president gained a slight lead over his successor (46% to 44%) and surprisingly eclipsed the incumbent president among younger voters, according to the poll released Sunday.
“In 2019, 2020, when Trump was president, he was behind [Biden in] all [NBC’s polls]” explained NBC national political correspondent Steve Kornacki on “Meet the Press.”
“This is the first time in more than a dozen surveys that we’ve seen a result like this.”
Among younger voters ages 18 to 34, Trump emerged between a 46% and 42% lead over Biden. For context, younger voters leaned toward Biden by about 26 points in the 2020 election.
Only 31% of young voters approve of Biden’s job performance, down from 46% in September, the poll shows.
This trend appeared to feed into a backlash over Biden’s handling of the war between Israel and Hamas, an issue that has divided the Democratic Party.
Donald Trump has been outperforming President Biden in a slew of recent national polls.AP
A staggering 70% of younger voters said they disapproved of Biden’s handling of the conflict, the survey found.
Among Democrats, 51% felt Israel has been too aggressive, while 27% believed the Jewish state’s retaliatory actions were justified, the poll showed.
Overall, 40% of registered voters approved of the president’s performance in office, compared to 57% who disapproved, marking the lowest approval rating on record by NBC for Biden during his time in the White House. .
Joe Biden’s job approval rating fell to a record low in NBC poll.Getty Images
Overall, only 33% of voters approved of Biden’s foreign policy, which is down 8 percentage points from September.
Biden’s management of the economy obtained 38% approval, one percentage point more than in September.
NBC isn’t the only one comparing Biden to Trump in a 2024 showdown.
The former president also has a foothold in the 2024 Republican primaries. Getty Images
A series of polls both nationally and in battleground states also had Trump beating Biden in a general election. Trump, the favorite for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, rose 1.6 percentage points in the latest polling aggregate from RealClearPolitics.
A recent Stack Data Strategy poll of 15,000 people found that Trump beat Biden in the Electoral College.
The elections, scheduled for November 5, 2024, are still about a year away.
Joe Biden’s campaign has ignored the polls and insisted they have always been preparing for a close race. AFP via Getty Images
Biden’s campaign team has been downplaying the polls.
NBC also found Trump leading his 2024 Republican rivals. He garnered 58% support, followed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at 18%, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley at 13%, former Gov. from New Jersey Chris Christie with 3% and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy with 3%.
The NBC poll was conducted Nov. 10-14 among 1,000 registered voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
It also featured a subset of 317 Republican primary voters with a margin of error of 5.5 percentage points and a subset of 311 Democrats with a margin of error of plus or minus 5.6 percentage points.
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