President Joe Biden continues to face declining poll numbers as Donald Trump and Nikki Haley are both shown beating the incumbent in hypothetical general election match-ups outside of the margin of error.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, on the other hand, would tie with Biden, both earning 47 percent if they went head-to-head, according to a new Fox News poll released on Sunday.
Perhaps most surprising of the results is that Haley holds the biggest lead over Biden with a 6 percent gap.
It follows another Sunday poll showing Haley massively closing the primary election gap with Trump in New Hampshire, where she holds second place only 15 points behind the former president.
If the general election were held today – and it were a rematch between Trump and Biden – 50 percent of voters say they would cast their ballot for the former president, while 46 percent prefer the current president.
President Joe Biden would lose to Donald Trump and Nikki Haley if he faced either in a general election match-up today
Meanwhile, Haley holds 49 percent compared to Biden’s 43 percent support.
Having two Republican candidates polling ahead of Biden, and outside the 3 percentage point margin of error, is concerning for Democrats as voters are already expressing increased concern with the president’s age and fitness for office.
The survey was conducted among 1,007 registered voters from December 10-13.
The latest results come on the back of polling last week that shows Biden also trailing Trump in seven main swing states key to winning in the 2024 election.
Nearly 5,000 voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Nevada reveal the ex-president could re-flip states that went against him in 2020.
While the swing states are vastly different – ranging in class, race demographics and political leanings – they have one thing in common in the lead-up to the next presidential election; they all prefer Trump over Biden.
On average, 47 percent of voters in the battleground states would cast their ballot for Trump if a general election against Biden were held today compared to the president’s 42 percent support, according to a Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll released on Thursday.
With just weeks until the primary contests kick-off, former Amb. Haley has seen a massive spike in polls. She moved into second place in New Hampshire with just 15 points separating her with frontrunner Donald Trump, and has the biggest lead against Biden in the latest Fox poll
Trump is still consistently placing first in national and state polls, but saw some of his closest gaps yet with Haley moving to second place in New Hampshire
Looking over to the primary election in the Fox News poll, Republican voters still put Trump in first place, with the latest poll widening his lead nationwide against the rest of the field by 7 points since November and a massive 26 points since February.
With 69 percent support, Trump is the far frontrunner with second place DeSantis earning just 12 percent – a whopping 57 points behind the ex-president and once-ally.
Haley comes in at third place with 9 percent, meaning both her and DeSantis lost 1 percent since November.
Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy comes in fourth with 5 percent – losing 2 percent since the last poll in November – and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is in fifth with just 2 percent.
Among Republican voters, there is a margin of error of 4.5 percent.