Biden’s Lead Grows

October 19, 2020 at 2:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds Joe Biden surging into his largest national lead yet over Donald Trump, 51% to 40%.

“The president has struggled to rebound over the past three weeks from a widely panned first debate performance and a COVID-19 outbreak that sent him to the hospital and sickened others in and around White House. Yet the main reason Trump appears to have fallen even further behind Biden in recent days is because coronavirus cases are peaking just as the campaign is coming to a close.”

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