by: WOODTV.com staff
Posted:Nov 1, 2020 / 06:00 AM EST/Updated:Nov 1, 2020 / 11:19 AM EST
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — With the election looming, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is still ahead of President Donald Trump in Michigan, a new poll shows.
Pollsters with Michigan based EPIC-MRA said their latest poll released Sunday morning, showed 48% of respondents said they would vote for Biden and 41% for Trump if the election was held immediately. Those figures have remained statistically unchanged since the summer.
The poll also showed 6% of respondents were undecided or declined to say who they would choose, and 5% of those polled said they would vote for a third party candidate.
The poll also asked people how they felt Trump was doing as president. 56% gave him a negative job rating and 43% positive.
The poll showed voters with concerns about Biden, too, with 49% agreeing that he hadn’t done much during his long tenure in politics and half saying they thought he would let Democrats pursue policies that are too liberal. In addition, 49% said his physical and mental health weren’t good enough to be president.
EPIC-MRA also surveyed voters on the race for U.S. Senate, showing incumbent Gary Peters, a Democrat, continues to hold on to a narrow lead over Republican challenger John James. Of those polled, 47% said they would vote for Peters and 42% said James. That is a closer race than just a few weeks ago, and the difference is only one percentage point outside the poll’s plus-or-minus 4% margin of error.
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