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US Elections: Joe Biden Leads As Trump Trails In Battleground States

Democratic Party challenger in the United States presidential election, Joe Biden is in an early lead, polls show ahead of Tuesday 3 November 2020 voting.

Biden is ahead of Republican candidate, Donald Trump, in battleground states of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as in the Sun Belt states of Florida and Arizona, according to a poll of likely voters conducted by The New York Times and Siena College.

His strength is most pronounced in Wisconsin, where he has an outright majority of the vote and leads Trump by 11 points, 52 per cent to 41 per cent.

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Trump is trailing, polls suggest, due to his handling of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Under his watch, a total of 9.28 million Americans have been infected with the virus while 231,000 of that number have also died.

Biden is also getting support from first-time voters putting him in a stronger position heading into election day than any presidential candidate since at least 2008, New York Times reports.

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