First lady Jill Biden defended her husband’s poor polling numbers Wednesday morning, hours after a new survey found him lagging behind rival Donald Trump in six out of seven crucial swing states in a head-to-head matchup.
“No, he’s not losing in all the battleground states,” the president’s wife said on “CBS Mornings.”
“He’s coming up. He’s even or doing better. So, you know what, once people start to focus in and they see their two choices, it’s obvious that Joe will win this election.”
A Wall Street Journal poll released late Tuesday showed Trump besting Biden in Michigan (48-45%), Pennsylvania (47-44%), Georgia (44-43%), North Carolina (49-43%), Arizona (47-42%) and Nevada (48-44%).
Trump and Biden are tied in Wisconsin at 46% each, but the Democrat came out on top by three percentage points when including independent candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West, as well as Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Lars Mapstead.
Kennedy pulled 10% of voter support in Wisconsin, while the other third-party candidates received 1% each and 9% were undecided.
RFK Jr. is aiming to get on the ballot in all 50 states, but is facing challenges as an independent candidate. His team says he has qualified for the ballot in Nevada, Utah, New Hampshire, Hawaii and North Carolina.
The polls spell bad news for Biden, who won six of the seven states surveyed in defeating Trump in 2020.
The president, 81, has insisted that polls exist that show him besting Trump, though evidence of such surveys are scarce.
“While we probably haven’t read a lot about it, in the last few days, there have been several national polls showing us leading now,” Biden said at a campaign stop in North Carolina last week.
“While we probably haven’t read a lot about it, in the last few days, there has been five national polls,” he told supporters in Houston earlier in March. “The press — well, I like the press, but they don’t talk about it very much. Five national polls having us leading since my State of the Union address.”
Biden has traveled to each of the battleground states in recent weeks.
The president’s campaign has also championed the large amount of funding they have received in comparison to the Trump team, fueled by large donors and a mega fundraiser featuring former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.