The possibility of Donald Trump's triumphant return to the White House seems more likely by the day.
According to the latest New York Times poll, Trump leads Biden by five points nationally, the largest lead he has ever achieved in a New York Times poll since he first ran for office in 2015.
The Times notes:
Let's just say it: Joe Biden is expected to win this election. He is an incumbent president running for re-election with a reasonably healthy economy against an unpopular opponent accused of multiple federal crimes.
However, President Biden is not winning, at least not now. Polls show him trailing in states worth more than 270 electoral votes, and this morning he trails Donald J. Trump in the latest national poll conducted by The New York Times in collaboration with Siena College by five percentage points among registered voters, 48 percent to 43 percent.
This is the largest lead Mr. Trump has ever achieved in a national poll by The Times/Siena. In fact, this is the largest lead Mr. Trump has achieved in a Times/Siena or Times/CBS poll since he first ran for president in 2015.
The far-left party tried to justify its findings by pointing to various possible explanations, including Biden's age, the conflict in the Middle East and high levels of inflation.
However, the newspaper acknowledges the harsh reality that Biden is “deeply unpopular”:
President Biden's unpopularity has upended the expected dynamic of this election. It turned what looked like a seemingly predictable rematch into a race that bore no resemblance to the 2020 election, when Mr. Biden was a broadly attractive candidate who was acceptable to an ideologically diverse group of voters who disapproved of Mr. Trump.
Having already secured the Republican nomination, Trump's lead in the polls should give his supporters serious hope of victory in November, even as widespread voter fraud marred the 2020 presidential election.
According to the latest RealClearPolling average, Trump has a two-point lead nationally over Biden, while also leading significantly in a number of key states like Arizona, Georgia and Michigan.
However, Trump has repeatedly warned that Republicans will need a landslide victory in November to overcome the gerrymandering margin.
“Republicans must win,” he wrote on Truth Social on Saturday. “We want a landslide too big to be manipulated!”
