President Trump says he does not believe polls that show his apparent Democratic presidential opponent, Joe Biden, leading in the 2020 race for the White House.
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump told Reuters on Wednesday he does not believe opinion polls that show his apparent Democratic presidential opponent, Joe Biden,During an interview in the Oval Office, the Republican president said he did not expect the election to be a referendum on his handling of the“I don’t believe the polls,” Trump said. “I believe the people of this country are smart. And I don’t think that they will put a man in who’s incompetent.
Trump has criticized Biden’s decades-long record as a U.S. senator and as President Barack Obama’s vice president. “And I don’t mean incompetent because of a condition that he’s got now. I mean he’s incompetent for 30 years. Everything he ever did was bad. His foreign policy was a disaster,” Trump said.
Polls conducted this week by Reuters/Ipsos about a general election matchup showed that 44 percent of registered voters said they would back Biden in the Nov. 3 election, while 40 percent said they would support Trump.Sign Up
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