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Trump's Advantage Over Biden on Economy Slipping

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  While former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden has held a steady six or seven-point lead over President Donald Trump in the national public opinion polls, Trump has held one clear advantage over Biden — on the question of who voters believe is best suited to handle a troubled economy.   As recently as mid-August, a CNN poll indicated that 53% of voters believed Trump, the one-time New York real estate magnate, was the better candidate for economic issues, with 45% in the survey preferring Biden. But even that advantage has begun to dissipate. Just two weeks later, the same poll found Trump with a razor-thin 49% to 48% advantage. Other polling has shown a similar narrowing. Early September polling from CBS News and Quinnipiac showed a virtual tie in voters' beliefs about who would better handle the economy.  The reasons for the change are not completely clear, analysts say, but some of the movement is likely related to Biden taking a much more aggressive posture in challenging t...

Trump, Biden Spar over US Protest Violence

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Nine weeks from the public U.S. political race, President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, previous Vice President Joe Biden, fought Monday over fault for road savagery connected to racial bad form and police treatment of minorities that emitted as of late. Trump tweeted Monday that he designs Tuesday to visit Kenosha, Wisconsin, where fights turned fierce a week ago in the repercussions of a police shooting of a Black man as they endeavored to capture him. A white adolescent vigilante professing to secure organizations in Kenosha was blamed for lethally shooting two individuals and injuring a third during a road exhibition. Alluding to Biden, Trump said the Wisconsin savagery, and turmoil in Portland, Oregon, in the U.S. northwest, constrained "Moderate Joe" out of his storm cellar at his home in Delaware, where he has lobbied for the November 3 political decision to dodge swarms during the unabated Covid pandemic. In a discourse Monday in Pittsburgh, Biden censur...