Biden's polling remains steady after DNC, but favorability gets a boost
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, didn't see his general election polling numbers rise in the immediate aftermath of this week's Democratic National Convention, a new Morning Consult poll shows.
The poll, which was conducted Friday (one day after Biden gave his acceptance speech completing the four-day DNC) and released Saturday, has Biden up nine points on President Trump, compared to the eight point advantage he enjoyed Monday. But the small improvement is statistically insignificant because of the polls' margins of error.
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Analysts still think some sort of post-convention bounce should appear in the coming days, though, or else Democrats may start to grow concerned.
The Morning Consult poll was conducted Friday among 4,377 likely voters. The margin of error was 1 percentage point. Read more at Morning Consult.
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