Fox News Panel Digs Into New Poll Showing Biden Opening Up Six-Point Lead On Trump — While Losing to Haley
Fox News’s Harris Faulkner covered the latest Quinnipiac University National Poll on Thursday, which showed President Joe Biden opening up a 6-point lead over Donald Trump.
Faulkner noted that “in the race to White House, a new poll finds Joe Biden is up six points in a hypothetical head-to-head rematch against Donald Trump, that’s since December. Biden also has won over the majority of female voters at this point, independents and voters with college degrees.”
“Trump, on the other hand, is leading among male voters. But the race looks much different when you add in third-party candidates,” Faulkner continued, adding:
Biden holds a much tighter lead within the margin of error. And that same poll also puts Nikki Haley up with a strong lead over Biden in a 1 to 1 matchup. When you throw those third-party candidates into the mix, Haley ends up trailing Biden by 7%.
Power panel David Avella, GOPAC chairman Fred Hicks, president of Hicks Evaluation Group. Welcome to you both. You know what? Can we just start for a second with Nikki Haley? David, why wouldn’t the third party comes in? Does it hurt her? Traditionally, we’ve looked at a third party hurting the Democrats. Why does it hurt Nikki Haley?
“Well, you have, Democrats going back and ultimately voting for Joe Biden when, instead of voting for Nikki Haley. But let’s keep this in mind. While polls may show that Nikki Haley is beating Joe Biden. Polls also show that there’s not one state where Nikki Haley is beating Donald Trump. And unless she can get the nomination, she doesn’t get to take on Joe Biden. And right now, this race, in November, is going to be Donald Trump versus Joe Biden,” responded Avella.
“How much is it, Fred, making a difference to have the vice president, Kamala Harris, she’s not working on some of the things that the president had given her, like the border and all of that effectively. But her messaging on abortion, which is number one in the polling in most accounts for Democrats, particularly Democrat women?” Faulkner then asked Hicks, adding:
Her message has been solely on that issue. You watch her on talk shows. They ask her about the moon. I’m just being facetious there, but a different topic. She comes right back to women’s rights and the abortion. What do Democrats know about that and why does that work for her?
“Well, Democrats know what the data shows, and that is that the vast majority of Americans want reproductive rights to be protected. Look, says the Dobbs decision just a couple of years or so ago. We’ve seen abortion on reproductive rights on the ballot in several states, and each and every time,” Hicks replied, concluding:
The right to reproductive rights, so to speak, has been on the ballot. It has passed. Whether you’re talking about Ohio or the Kentucky, you’re talking about Kansas, you’re talking about any place in the country where it has been on the ballot since the Dobbs decision. It has turned out voters, and they have said that we want reproductive rights to be protected. And so I think it’s very smart for the vice president, for the and for this team to talk about that. The #RestoreRoe. It’s very effective.
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